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
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Category: scent work
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Sometimes it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate the results of all the training my dogs and I do together, and so often it comes in clusters after a long period of hard work. It’s work that I love to do! But it can still have challenges, frustrations and setbacks. Brian has had a wonderful few…
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This month we celebrated Rozzie’s 13th birthday. How lucky we are to have this special, sweet springer for so many years, and we hope for a lot more time. Rozzie is by far the healthiest dog I’ve ever gotten to this age, with all brain cells intact, although just after her birthday on October 5th,…
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, Journey the Irish Water Spaniel, is happily back with us for additional obedience training. I’m stunned to report that she has learned her scent discrimination articles in slightly over one month. Journey arrived here in early December; she’s now at the stage where she is selecting the article…
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In Scent Work Part 1, you saw two springers, Kani and Rozzie, at the opposite ends of their training in the scent discrimination exercise. Reardon’s right in the middle stage. He’s had literally months of developing confidence with cheese strips on the articles. The cheese strips have been gradually faded to where they’re really just a dot of…
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Human beings are always fascinated by the dog’s ability to use his nose. While our primary sense is our sight, the dog’s nose dominates his perceptions of the world, through scent receptors that are thousands of times greater than ours. So training a dog to do scent work is really diving into a world we…
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