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I’m a retired English instructor, now devoted full-time to training, showing and enjoying my spaniels in many sports.
I’m an English college instructor by trade, a dog trainer by vocation. And lifelong baseball fan.

Month: October 2012

  • Reardon conquers Bow….at least today

    This tracking photo, taken by the talented photographer Lisa Kaufman, does not at all capture the soggy fields of Bow, Washington today.  I just forgot my camera!   Today Reardon and I drove up to Bow to practice for the tracking tests coming up.  Bow was his nemesis in the spring, and so I wanted to have…

  • Kani

    One thing that has slowed my energy level way down for any kind of thoughtful posting is Kani’s diagnosis of kidney failure.  This occurred a few weeks ago when I took her in for yet another blood panel.  Things just weren’t right, and she wasn’t keeping on weight, despite my upping her food level far…

  • Darn that Facebook!

    It’s been far to easy to quickly document dog happenings in the past few months in short bursts on Facebook.  That’s a bad habit if I really want this blog to be a journal of my life with dogs.  Time to stop that! August was a wonderful month.  Reardon earned two legs on his Open…