The spaniel's spring can be explosive or slithering and cat-like. This past Thursday, at Rally practice, Larsen and I came upon a hurdle. Rather than run and make for a grand leap as did the other dogs and handlers, we mosied up to the horizontal bar and sort of looked it over. I asked Larsen to hop it, and he jumped the bar in one slow motion - - like water running up and then downhill - - and in one fluid movement where half of him was going down while the half was still going up. I've seen him do that same slithering leap from a sit over a waist-high silt fence at a construction site.
Ever wonder how a spaniel makes that move? Check out the size of Larsen's rear end relative to his shoulders. Believe me, he has a barrel chest and broad shoulders, so this will give you an idea of how a springer is constructed.
Larsen models his big rear end.
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