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
- training
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- Utility obedience
Month: February 2017
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Ruckus is a highly accomplished show Irish Water Spaniel (Best in Show and multi-Best in Specialty Show + hunting titles), who is visiting us to work on his rally and novice obedience. He’s a very willing, athletic young dog who has learned many obedience moves very quickly (scroll down for more on this). However, understandably…
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The end of a dog’s working career is always extremely difficult for me to face, in ways that might be hard for a non-trainer to understand. For years, usually from puppyhood, any particular dog I’m training will work with me several days a week. I’ll plan out her daily training carefully, take her to classes,…
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