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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: December 2012
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This is a few weeks ago now, but Kani had her monthly blood test to see how her kidneys are functioning. A few numbers improved, but the most important ones did not: The BUN and Creatinine (CRE) are most significant in terms of kidney function, and they are asterisked, meaning they are above normal range. (The…
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Rozzie started tracking a few weeks ago, and today showed excellent progress. In rainy weather with no wind, we did three short tracks of increasing distance, some change of cover, and diminishing food drops: 50 yards and 60 yards in short mowed grass, and then 70 yards in short pasture grass. They were all about…
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Two Sundays ago Reardon and I hit a milestone in his tracking career: earning his TD! In winds up to 20 mph, he completed a 455-yard track that had been aged 35 minutes. Here’s the judge’s map: The 1st, 3rd, and 5th legs of this track had crosswind, and I was very impressed with…
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This is not the world’s greatest video, but it is evidence that Gael can indeed: halt fairly straight and take some responsibility for doing so; stay when she’s told; do a slow-paced heel without scooting her butt along the ground (which Gael’s own take on the change of pace); retrieve a dumbbell with some finesse; hold a dumbbell…
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