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    Adventures of Nick & Ted

    Jul 02, 2019 3 minutes

    Age 40 months

    Another month and another couple of working tests for Ted and me. Following on from my moderate success at the training mock working test my confidence was restored, so this month I decided to enter the Chiltern Gundog AV Working test. For those readers unfamiliar with spaniel working tests, most of them are run as “Any Variety – AV”, so any breed of spaniel can enter.

    A challenge of these tests as a cocker handler is you are running up against the springers and the two breeds have very different requirements to get them hunting. Most

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