Mentors in Judges’ Education Mentors play a critical role in shaping the understanding and consistency of breed judging. The American Kennel Club (AKC) outlines clear expectations for mentors [...]
Did you know judges’ education goes beyond breed seminars and hands-on workshops? It does! In fact, there are so many components and aspects of judges’ education that many [...]
Topic: The 2025 ESSFTA judges' education seminar was an interactive discussion focused on some of the ambiguous words in our standard and how we interpret those words. This [...]
Nose and eye rims are fully pigmented; bite scissors or even Moderate stop, a groove, or fluting, between the eyes; planes nearly parallel Planes nearly parallel; skull is [...]
Submitted by Laurin Howard and Kathy Lorenzen Size DOES matter. Got your attention? Good. The breed standard uses words and phrases such as ‘sturdy’, ‘muscular’, ‘strong’, ‘power’ and [...]
The Board of Directors of the American Kennel Club has approved the following AKC breed standard for the English Springer Spaniel as submitted by our parent club, the [...]
What Historians Had To Say Histories hint that dogs of the Spaniel type have populated the civilized world for many centuries. The Spaniel is thought to have originated [...]