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I’m a retired English instructor, now devoted full-time to training, showing and enjoying my spaniels in many sports.
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- Utility obedience
Month: September 2018
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Since the writing of the previous post of Journey earning her UDX in February of 2018, I resolved that we only show in Utility, as Journey turned 11 in June. Utility is where many of the OTCH points are, and she only has to jump twice. But our showing went into a rapid decline in…
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Originally printed in the IWSCA newsletter in Spring 2018. What better way to update this blog than with Journey’s UDX earned back in February? Journey (Ch. Whistlestop Journey to Freedom [now] UDX, RN JH) began her quest for her UDX at the Collie Club’s all-breed obedience trial in Feb. 2017, and ended it at the…
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