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
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- Utility obedience
Month: February 2012
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Tracking with Reardon and Gael this winter has caused me to become much more intrigued with this sport. For some years now, I’ve been searching for a second sport for my dogs other than obedience. I wanted the sport to be good exercise and call upon their natural instincts. I also wanted it to depend upon a…
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Sometimes accomplishments (or should I say “attainments”?) in dog training take months and even years to come to fruition. This is especially true in obedience trialing and another sport we’ve been working, tracking. In a remarkable synchronicity, Reardon has made some big leaps recently in both sports. In his obedience work, our challenge in getting…
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Journey’s never gotten a professional win photo with me. I vaguely remember reasons why; when she got her CD, I was quite ill with thyroid disease (heading into surgery). We pretty much finished the title and she returned to her breeder. Then she’s been bounced back and forth since then, although she’s now here to…
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When I got Gael as an 8-week-old puppy, I knew I’d need to be a little careful introducing her into a very tight-knit pack of 3 springers: mother, son and daughter. I expected Kani to use common sense, but she would also be inclined to issue “motherly” corrections. Rozzie I could trust absolutely. At the…
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