Why we do it

A Welsh Springer Spaniel is first of all a springer.  He is balled up energy.  He is also a spaniel.  He is sweet, sensitive, and block-headed.  On weekend mornings, we drive 35 minutes to go for a walk.  Not simply a walk, exactly, but a hard run over steep hills and deep valleys, through thickets and into the deep green forest and finally down to the lake, which itself falls into deep water only a few feet from the shore.  You run your little dog hard, alone or in a pack of red and whites, until his and their tails stop wagging (a physical impossibility), so that you can get a silly, wall-eyed, out-of-focus picture like this.