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
Tag: essential nature of the dog
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Particularly when I ask my dogs to join me so much in my endeavors, and they do so with such willingness, I do what I can to acknowledge and fulfill their essential nature. It is the essential nature of the Springer Spaniel to run, hunt and find game. So on this Christmas morning, at dawn, we…