Minor things that make you happy

[tommytowne]

Today is when pup gets its second set of jabs. This of course means imminently I can be released from house arrest for the past 3 weeks or so since we got the mutt. Been a long haul but hopefully things will go well when we get the thing outdoors rather than garden. No complaints regards housetraining, only one dump and a couple of jimmys in first few days. Two nights of whining then quiet.

 

[PhilM]

When you're son comes bounding down the stairs first thing in the morning and gives you a massive hug. Always makes my day!

 

[kev]

When you're son comes bounding down the stairs first thing in the morning and gives you a massive hug. Always makes my day!

You know my son???

 

[tommytowne]

When you're son comes bounding down the stairs first thing in the morning and gives you a massive hug. Always makes my day!

Providing you don't live in a bungalow of course

 

[carlos21]

Today is when pup gets its second set of jabs. This of course means imminently I can be released from house arrest for the past 3 weeks or so since we got the mutt. Been a long haul but hopefully things will go well when we get the thing outdoors rather than garden. No complaints regards housetraining, only one dump and a couple of jimmys in first few days. Two nights of whining then quiet.

What dog you got.

 

[tommytowne]

What dog you got.

Black male working cocker. Picked up just over three weeks ago at 8 weeks. Not going to work it, but its pedigree is proper gundog from recognised breeder near Whitby. Been brilliant since we brought it home. Plenty of countryside for me and missus to let it run. Looking for it to get me off my arse a bit more. Been waiting some six months for one from the breeder, well before lockdown.

 

[carlos21]

Black male working cocker. Picked up just over three weeks ago at 8 weeks. Not going to work it, but its pedigree is proper gundog from recognised breeder near Whitby. Been brilliant since we brought it home. Plenty of countryside for me and missus to let it run. Looking for it to get me off my arse a bit more. Been waiting some six months for one from the breeder, well before lockdown.

Any pics please.

 

[tommytowne]

Any pics please.

Not the best I'll try later

 

[carlos21]

Not the best I'll try later
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Nice pic that mate.

 

[tommytowne]

Nice pic that mate.

Had a Springer a few years back, that we got from a local rescue centre. It was a bitch that had been subjected to industrial scale breeding. Reckoned it was about six years old and had it for four years before its bad treatment in its early years caught up with her. First dog from a pup underlining the time you need to dedicate to the animal.

 

[carlos21]

Had a Springer a few years back, that we got from a local rescue centre. It was a bitch that had been subjected to industrial scale breeding. Reckoned it was about six years old and had it for four years before its bad treatment in its early years caught up with her. First dog from a pup underlining the time you need to dedicate to the animal.

Springer spaniel are amazing dogs clever when they want to be.

 

[tommytowne]

Springer spaniel are amazing dogs clever when they want to be.

Completely bonkers is all you need to say to describe them.
Back to my pup, was sat watching it in the garden yesterday when it went sniffing in the border and suddenly yelped. I looked and saw it as a bee or wasp flew away from it. The dog was on its back yelping holding its right front paw in the air. I guessed what had happened and got the dog onto it's back and saw the sting in its paw and used my teeth to get the thing out. Pad swelled but subsided overnight and walking ok this morning.

 

[carlos21]

Completely bonkers is all you need to say to describe them.
Back to my pup, was sat watching it in the garden yesterday when it went sniffing in the border and suddenly yelped. I looked and saw it as a bee or wasp flew away from it. The dog was on its back yelping holding its right front paw in the air. I guessed what had happened and got the dog onto it's back and saw the sting in its paw and used my teeth to get the thing out. Pad swelled but subsided overnight and walking ok this morning.

Good mate.

 

[PhilM]

Providing you don't live in a bungalow of course

He's got a Lego but not enough to build a set of stairs.

 

[COYBL25]

Not the best I'll try later
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We had a Working Cocker a few years ago mate - Harvey.

That’s him in the picture, with the female Cocker / Springer cross ( Sprocker ) we had at the time.

We got him from a farm in Flint and he’d never been indoors in his life when we got him, as for the first week he just ran around the house, jumping on and off the couch/ beds etc !

Once he settled he was a brilliant dog, walked to heel without training, really loyal, but hated other dogs and small kids, which is why we had to re home him in the end.

I suspect the farm we got him from sold him as a pet rather than a working dog, as he had a “ hard mouth “ - he crunched things and killed things he retrieved, rather than gently carrying them.