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He wants to leave home, because I wouldn't let him wipe his nose on me...
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MotherOfChickens said:
send him up here, I now have a dog with recall and its weird ;)
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After having an English Setter who had selective hearing at best, we now have a Cocker who hot legs it back to us at the hint of hearing his name - it's very unnerving and we're not sure why we suddenly have a dog that actually does at he's told!

Auslander said:
He is also so very stupid. He failed to put his wheels out when he jumped out of the car, and ploughed a nose furrow in the mud! Also v offended at me howling with laughter.
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Awwwww setters often lack coordination - I do miss having one! (hint hint :p )
 
apercrumbie said:
After having an English Setter who had selective hearing at best, we now have a Cocker who hot legs it back to us at the hint of hearing his name - it's very unnerving and we're not sure why we suddenly have a dog that actually does at he's told!
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I know,right? deer, rabbits-no problems anymore.


apercrumbie said:
Awwwww setters often lack coordination - I do miss having one! (hint hint :p )
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my Irish setter once ran headlong into a tree trying to avoid said tree.
 
my setter didn't like to sit either. but I have to say. expecting him to not gallop in the house, not love everyone, or to get off the sofa are completely unacceptable and he should come here now.

Mine grew out of chewing but did famously chew through some skirting boards and an interior wall as a pup.
 
Auslander said:
This one regularly misjudges high speed turns, and does forward rolls instead!
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ha, yes mine once did a rotational and screamed blue murder. I honestly thought he had broken at least two legs with all the noise he made. I ran over to my screaming hound. After 30s he got up and buggered off, not even slightly lame! he was not a stoic soul.
 
MotherOfChickens said:
my setter didn't like to sit either. but I have to say. expecting him to not gallop in the house, not love everyone, or to get off the sofa are completely unacceptable and he should come here now.

Mine grew out of chewing but did famously chew through some skirting boards and an interior wall as a pup.
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He's 9...

He was a rescue, who had spent most of the first 5 years of his life chained up in a farmyard. We reckon he is making up for lost puppyhood!

MotherOfChickens said:
ha, yes mine once did a rotational and screamed blue murder. I honestly thought he had broken at least two legs with all the noise he made. I ran over to my screaming hound. After 30s he got up and buggered off, not even slightly lame! he was not a stoic soul.
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Sounds v familiar. He's a massive pansy about hurting himself!
 
I am eminently suitable as a new home as I have had four setters previously. You will have to deliver though and I would need a complete doggie wardrobe and bed to come with
 
Snuffles said:
I am eminently suitable as a new home as I have had four setters previously. You will have to deliver though and I would need a complete doggie wardrobe and bed to come with
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Do you have room for his bed? He spurns dog size beds, and has settled for a 4 seater corner sofa... He'd actually like my bed, but that is the one remaining room in the house that I have managed to keep to myself.
I can't even have a wee without him headbutting the bathroom door, which then comes flying open and bashes me on the kneecap!
 
Auslander said:
Yuk! At least Bruno's effort wasn't deliberate!
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It's in the genes, I think. That's his sister wading behind him. My friend's Chiahuahua X on the bank however is allergic to dirt. We have given up hope of having nice things and now only buy soft furnishings if they are somewhere on the beige-brown spectrum.

 
cinnamontoast said:
Meep! He's gorgeous! Send him here, I'll walk him with my mate who has a red sitter girl she looks after.
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He's interesting to walk. If we're in the woods, he just disappears, and only reappears when he senses that you've turned for home. If you don't whistle for him a few times, just to make sure he's still in the vicinity, you can go a whole walk without seeing him - you just hear him crashing through the undergrowth! If we're in open space - he runs, and runs, and runs - I have to be a bit careful not to let him exhaust himself - he'll run til he can't run any more, have a breather, and then run and run and run some more!
 
The OH says Bear 'motorbikes' round the woods. He gallops round non-stop. He is also a crashed, I can always hear him! He does come back and is rarely out of sight given the open paths I take. He recalls to 3 whistle blasts if he's away too long. I might risk it tomorrow, but I'm hearing about Alabama rot, not round here, but strongly linked to muddy woods walks.
 
Auslander said:
He's interesting to walk. If we're in the woods, he just disappears, and only reappears when he senses that you've turned for home. If you don't whistle for him a few times, just to make sure he's still in the vicinity, you can go a whole walk without seeing him - you just hear him crashing through the undergrowth! If we're in open space - he runs, and runs, and runs - I have to be a bit careful not to let him exhaust himself - he'll run til he can't run any more, have a breather, and then run and run and run some more!
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Oh yes - setters don't tend to walk to heel! Friends would be quite worried when walking with us as they would think she had bolted - we just had to explain that she just had a perimeter of two fields surrounding us at any one point but she was "with us".

I do have to ask however, does he slobber lots? Ours was a terror for waiting until you had sat down in your nicest trousers and then putting her beautiful but very slobbery head in your lap and looking up at you with the most beautiful brown eyes. Disgusting, but adorable.
 
apercrumbie said:
I do have to ask however, does he slobber lots? Ours was a terror for waiting until you had sat down in your nicest trousers and then putting her beautiful but very slobbery head in your lap and looking up at you with the most beautiful brown eyes. Disgusting, but adorable.
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I have heard this of setters but can honestly say that mine never did, not in the slightest ever.
 
apercrumbie said:
Oh yes - setters don't tend to walk to heel! Friends would be quite worried when walking with us as they would think she had bolted - we just had to explain that she just had a perimeter of two fields surrounding us at any one point but she was "with us".

I do have to ask however, does he slobber lots? Ours was a terror for waiting until you had sat down in your nicest trousers and then putting her beautiful but very slobbery head in your lap and looking up at you with the most beautiful brown eyes. Disgusting, but adorable.
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Oh yes! He is a terrible drooler! He also waits until he has two strings hanging off his jowls, and then shakes his head, so the slobber gets flicked over his nose, several times. He often has up to 4 lines of dried drool across his nose!
 
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