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
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- dual champion
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- English Springer Spaniel
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Category: match
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Kerrie and Brian had run-throughs of their obedience routines last weekend, and I’ve posted excerpts of Kerrie’s run below. She’s made excellent progress in terms of focused heeling for longer periods, and is not lacking for joy in the ring. All good! Things to work on are: continued focus work on her about turns and…
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Ruckus’ development from rally novice to obedience novice trialing has required a few major changes, the biggest one weaning him off my cheerleader voice. He got too dependent on my voice in rally, which was not really his fault when I was using my voice (overusing, I think) to build up his animation and intensity.…
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Sometimes accomplishments (or should I say “attainments”?) in dog training take months and even years to come to fruition. This is especially true in obedience trialing and another sport we’ve been working, tracking. In a remarkable synchronicity, Reardon has made some big leaps recently in both sports. In his obedience work, our challenge in getting…
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Rozzie happily surprised me today by being the star of the rally match held in Auburn, WA. I took all three dogs, as I’m hoping both Rozzie and Reardon will be ready to compete in rally obedience by our National in October. (Rally is an obedience competition where the dog and handler team perform exercises…
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Sunday we headed to a fun match held by our local spaniel club. In a “fun match,” we get to practice our obedience exercises in a show-like setting, with volunteers acting as judges and stewards. It’s not the real thing, but a busy, well -run fun match has much the same feeling as a show. This match was…
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