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buddylove said:
Completely addicted!! Number 3 will be here in a few months, then that will be it (until we have puppies) ?
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I know feel I’m missing out - what’s made them so addictive other than being utterly beautiful?

(OH has a hankering for a shaded cream mini LH so there’s definitely motivation to me asking)
 
luke_H said:
I know feel I’m missing out - what’s made them so addictive other than being utterly beautiful?

(OH has a hankering for a shaded cream mini LH so there’s definitely motivation to me asking)
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It's weird, I had not really considered them before, but I went with my mother in law to visit her smooth MD pup at the breeders and I met Ginny's mum (the cream long haired), and I was smitten! Beautiful dogs with beautiful personalities. They come in lots of pretty colours, which means you can't just have one (the third puppy joining us is a silver dapple)
Plus I have pretty much hung up my riding boots for now, apart from having the kids ponies, so needed something else to concentrate on!
I have always wanted to get into breeding and showing, but it is only now that I feel I have enough time to dedicate myself.
 
Cute. They are adorable especially as puppies.

Mine was a nightmare. I rescued her when she was a little older and she hadn't been house trained and was a bad chewer and a typical gobby hound. She got IVDD as well and had to have spinal surgery. But she went on to have a happy few years afterward.
I lost her 2 years ago now.

Mini smooth silver dapple.
 

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ycbm said:
What is it with labradors cuddling puppies? Do they all do it?

Lovely pic!
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She is just the best natured nanny-lab!! Ola wasn't allowed her own puppers as, despite coming from parents with excellent scores, her hips were less than perfect, not awful, but not good enough that we would have wanted to breed from her. She would have been an excellent mum, but is content to be an adoptive mum to the little fluff balls ?
 
buddylove said:
It's weird, I had not really considered them before, but I went with my mother in law to visit her smooth MD pup at the breeders and I met Ginny's mum (the cream long haired), and I was smitten! Beautiful dogs with beautiful personalities. They come in lots of pretty colours, which means you can't just have one (the third puppy joining us is a silver dapple)
Plus I have pretty much hung up my riding boots for now, apart from having the kids ponies, so needed something else to concentrate on!
I have always wanted to get into breeding and showing, but it is only now that I feel I have enough time to dedicate myself.
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How do you find things in terms of with jumping, furniture etc? Having a Pembroke corgi, also long and low but not as long and low as dachshunds, we restricted jumping, furniture etc up until about 12 months but they generally are ok then as long as you’re sensible and they aren’t too far. I know some dachshund breeders say none at all to jumping, furniture etc (then again so do some corgi breeders!)

Yours really are lovely - as does sound the next one!
 
Ooh
luke_H said:
How do you find things in terms of with jumping, furniture etc? Having a Pembroke corgi, also long and low but not as long and low as dachshunds, we restricted jumping, furniture etc up until about 12 months but they generally are ok then as long as you’re sensible and they aren’t too far. I know some dachshund breeders say none at all to jumping, furniture etc (then again so do some corgi breeders!)

Yours really are lovely - as does sound the next one!
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Ooh a Corgi, could have been tempted by them as well!!
We don't encourage them to jump on the furniture, but they do come up occasionally, just need to make sure they don't jump off!! Some people have ramps etc.
We do block off the stairs as again, I don't want them up there, and when they do they invariably steal socks!!
So we are careful but not obsessively so, they go up and down steps between rooms and outside and they are fine. They have to be able to exercise sufficiently to build up the core strength to support their length.
 
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