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: May 2025
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Kerrie’s heeling has been coming along quite well, but one bug-a-boo was her tendency to look around and/or drop her head on the about turn. I’ve found in problem-solving little isues like this that it’s always good to go back to foundations, and use foundational tools. Over and over again I’ve found the pockethand method…
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