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: October 2019
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A long time ago, one of my springers was chronically ill due to his liver’s portal shunt, which would at times send him into crisis. He would become very weak, with vomiting and diarrhea, and his blood values would sky-rocket. The vet would pump him full of antibiotics and prednizone, and he would slowly recover,…
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