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
Category: dual champion
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I had no plans for another dog. And not a Gordon Setter. For months after I lost Vita, I daydreamed of a Gordon puppy, but as my grief eased, my daydreams stopped and life moved on. Then I caught a phone call from Susan DeSilver, the accomplished and well-respected breeder of Gordon Hill Gordon Setters. Susan breeds…