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: November 2017
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I like to hold a photo shoot every year to commemorate my dog family. Sometimes I get this done professionally, but this year decided to try it in the garden on my own. I’m pretty happy with the result! First, the 2018 obedience team! Looking forward to lots of fun times with them next year:…
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Ruckus’ development from rally novice to obedience novice trialing has required a few major changes, the biggest one weaning him off my cheerleader voice. He got too dependent on my voice in rally, which was not really his fault when I was using my voice (overusing, I think) to build up his animation and intensity.…
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I’m frequently on the look-out for a “second sport” for my dogs, one that might be more freewheeling and less intensive than the obedience training we do. This second sport needs to fulfill these criteria: Doesn’t take up a lot of costly or time-consuming training time; Ignites and utilizes my dogs’ instincts or drives (thus…
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