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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
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- Utility obedience
Month: May 2012
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We came, we saw and we failed the last tracking test of the spring in Sprague, Washington, with Reardon starting beautifully, and then hitting a critter mound. He never quite recovered after that first glorious drowning in critter scent (mice? bunnies?). His expression veered back and forth from “Bunnies! Whee!!” to a somewhat confused “oops,…
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