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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.
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Category: Utility obedience
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Training the utility scent discrimination exercise is a long process, starting in puppyhood and involving many moments of seemingly 1 step forward and 2 steps back. In the end, Brian must find my scented article of either wood or leather in a “pile” of 8 similar articles, several feet away from me in the obedience…
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