The Spaniel Annals
working and living with performance spaniels
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I’m a retired English instructor, now devoted full-time to training, showing and enjoying my spaniels in many sports.
- agility
- Behavior
- competition
- conditioning
- dockdiving
- dual champion
- English Cocker
- English Springer Spaniel
- Fetch!
- field work
- Freestyle
- Gordon Setters
- heeling
- heeling journal
- Irish Water Spaniel
- match
- mental preparation
- new freestyle behaviors
- puppy training
- rally obedience
- retrieve
- scent work
- TEAM
- tracking
- training
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- Utility obedience
Month: June 2011
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I’m feeling exhausted but happy from a demanding schedule of 3 trial weekends in the last 5 weeks, occurring at the end of a school year. Roz finished us up with a bang, by earning her second novice leg yesterday at the Puyallup shows and a 1st place! Her score was a very respectable 196. …
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Life with performance animals can be such a roller coaster ride of tearful disappointment and loss and in the next moment, exhilarating joy. In my last post, I wrote about Kani possibly having to retire. That’s now been decided. A urine culture told us that Kani is carrying FOUR pathogens, two of which are highly resistent…
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