The Spaniel Annals
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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: August 2012
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I’ve been watching the 2012 Olympics much more obsessively than in several years past. I loved them as a child, and for some reason my interest has been re-ignited this year. With my recent focus on the mental aspect of dog performance sports, much of my attention in these Games has been on the sports requiring precise,…
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The past few weekends have been promising dry runs for some big shows coming up in August: in the 3rd and 4th weekend of this month, Reardon will debut in AKC Open, Journey will debut in Utility at the IWS specialty, and both will show for the first time in a freestyle competition. Yikes! I wouldn’t…
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