Kirkbourne Spaniels Training Journal 2023
New to Kirkbourne Spaniels, our training Journal, this is a truly great way to record your training for you and your dog. You can record many things along with your trainers feed back, score your day or session, remember the good days and bad. You can look back to see your progression.
Over the years I have found most of the successful handlers have in some way recorded their goals.
We have developed this great training aid for you. Take a look on line and you will not regret purchasing this hard back journal. https://www.kirkbournespaniels.co.uk/product-page/kirkbourne-journal
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