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
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- new freestyle behaviors
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- rally obedience
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Month: September 2020
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It’s time for our annual photos amongst the pumpkins. We’re having quite a squash harvest this year, so here is the first of probably 3 harvests in the next few weeks. This photo session produced a lot of throw-aways, but here is the best of what we got:
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I traveled to the spaniel clubs’ hunt tests in Oakville, WA to run a cocker for a friend, and Robbie and Brian came along. My favorite memory from this trip was watching Brian run in a big field, which we did in the evening after the tests were done. He loved chasing some cocker friends…