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nice one! goes to show, it doesn't always take ££ or 'the right breeding' to get a dog that'll do the job. saw a lurcher doing better than the majority of labs in the gundog stuff at a show yesterday, it was quality.
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very unlikely she's too small- even the smallest cockers have enough heart to make up for their size. Give her a try- if she can pick a dummy she can pick a bird!
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how to tell if my bitch has had the snip
spec replied to welshnutter69's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
how old is she, cos her nips don't look very prominent, if she's older than a year or so you'd expect her to have had at least one season and them to be a bit more defined maybe? If the white bit is a scar it could be a spay scar, but like others have said it's probably a case of waiting to see if she comes into season or not! -
you have a pm.
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he looks a cracker, good luck with the sale, I'd bite your hand off if I was after another cocker
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not a running dog, but I paid the best part of £500 for my cocker as a 7 week old pup. believe it or not she was on the cheaper end of some of the prices I've seen for decently (and even not-so-decently) bred working cockers. Bit of a shock when you've never had to pay more than £150 to get what you want before, but I don't regret it.
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pups injections do you lot do them your selves
spec replied to maitland93's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
the thing that would worry me about doing it myself is I really don't think I could find a source that I trust 100%, what with having no way of checking out the composition of jabs and how they've been stored etc. Too much to risk. Talking about prices, it's been two years since I got my last pup, but I'm sure it was a good bit less than £50 for both jabs and chipping, pays to shop around, and by doing so I've ended up with an awesome vet who actually understands working dogs, and not the rip off merchant everyone else seems to use around here (who wouldn't even sell me drontal over the c -
such a sunny day, just want to get home from work and get out with the dogs, only 7 hours to go!
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ps- best way to post a vid is upload to youtube then it gives you the code to paste in here
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she looks like she's certainly listening! good stuff!
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driving test number 4 tomorrow, this is just getting embarassing...
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good luck mate i pack after four it the worse thing i ever did keep at it
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Good luck!
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Good luck bud
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no worries fella, sounds like you've got all the right ideas- you're spot on with getting the brakes 100%. enjoy her, spaniels are a lot of fun, and keep us updated with her progress
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I'd agree with what you've said yourself about exercise- pups do tend to be self regulating, as well as being much harder to break than we think they are. Don't panic! I wouldn't worry too much about 'formal' walks of a certain amount of miles whilst she's young, just concentrate on interacting with her, playing and stuff, she'll exercise herself that way. 'junior' food is a load of b*llocks invented by pet food companies, IMO. My dogs have always had 4/3 meals a day of puppy food when they're really little, but have certainly been phased on to adult food by 6 months. If you're feeding som
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agree with this comment 100%- work hard on pacing him, cos he sure as hell ain't gonna pace himself!
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Cheers spec. mean it pal, my cocker's first retrives of feathered stuff were all over the place- got it spot now, but there was quite a bit of dancing about with it, dragging it back by the wing etc - not a nice clean retrieve like this one!
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well it's got the breeding to be a little fireball mate, all the best with it! and like butcherboy says, cockers are very moreish!
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the best looking sprocker I've seen by far, and she held that pigeon like she's been doing it all her life
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looks a goody dog that- If I was that the lad that posted I'd go for something of that sort, touch of beddy can be handy
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Lurchers, terriers and gun dogs...
spec replied to baw's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
gundog does a lot more than just retrieving, and has to learn what to chase and not to chase just the same as a lurcher. What about a spaniel used for beating/roughshooting and then for just picking up? beating it's got to flush things close to you and then stop and not chase/catch, roughshooting its got to do that but then chase and catch runners and retrieve when you say so, picking up it's got to ignore all the birds it was flushing in its other jobs, but then gets sent on a runner and expected to chase it down over 100s of yards, when if it got that far from you in any other situation -
reply above is spot on you've certainly not left it too late, only way I'd say you might have a problem is if you've been letting the dog do a lot of her own thing (free hunting around without you etc) up until this point, as I learn the hard way that cockers can be willful little beggars when it comes to working for you not themselves if they've been allowed a lot of independence early on. biggest thing you really want to do at this age is work hard on getting the brakes 100%. keep her close to you all the time and get the stop whistle cracked (lots of good articles/books around on how
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you're probably right, they do seem lose a little bit of that fire and drive after spaying, BUT you have to weigh that up against the inconvenience of seasons/preventing unwanted pups, and the health risks as the unspayed bitch gets older. for me, if I didn't intend breeding from her I'd lose the bit of drive and spay the bitch. However, I wouldn't necessarily do it after her first season. My own cocker bitch I intend to breed from next summer, at which point she'll be 3 and a half, but will have her spayed after that. What makes you so sure you may not want pups from her in the future? (not a
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depends what you want it for really. you've got to look at it every day too, no good getting a lab if it's spaniels that get you going, even if they are easier. if you genuinely have no feelings either way just get the lab!
