Are we in danger, of being over run

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With Spaniels....:eek:
every dog we saw on our walk today was a spaniel, ok it was a short walk, and one of them looked to be a x with a pointer, but even so it is quite worrying! ;)
And to make it worse five of them were Cockers! :rolleyes:










Sit's back with tin hat on.... and wait's for it..:p
 
Spaniels are fab! My daughter and I have three very springy Springers and a Springador and love them to bits! Gun dog trainer has just bred four GORGEOUS working cocker pups - she's keeping one of the bitches and has called is Ditzy.......after ME because I'm just so away with the fairies most of the time! (Oh, and our Springador is the result of the accidental mating of gun dog trainer's black lab with our late gun dog trainer's young Springer which he gave to her when he knew he was dying. She's proving to be a fantastic little working dog even though the other members of the gun dog class turned up their noses at our "mongrel"!)
 
:DYup, of course they're bonkers - that's what makes them so lovely!:D Give me a Spangle any day over a lurcher, terrier or (horror of horrors....a poodle!....and my Husband has two of the revolting things!).
 
Its certainly happening here, got a spaniel in my kitchen as I type!

Looking after a neghbours cocker for a couple of days while they go away. She has been here before and Evie gets on really well with her, however Pickle is tormenting the life out of poor Poppy and she really doesn't know what to make of him.:p She is a cocker, of show lines and I have to say doesn't live up to the spangle stereotype at all. She is her owners first dog, and although they took her to basic puppy training they haven't done much else but she is very quiet and well behaved, doesn't go off hunting or anything. She is quite wary of other dogs, doesn't really want to play just lies flat when approached, Pickle will either be the making of her or turn her into a quivering wreck.:eek:
 
gugglebum said:
I just could not cope with a spaniel, fair play to those that do :D

I hope those that get them go in with their eyes wide open to their bonkers-ness oops I mean exuberance :)
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Well said!
Now i can understand the need for a well trained working dog, where you can channel it's um...activity into doing a job.
But then you get the bloke who realy, realy wants to be in with the shooting set, has four of the damn thing, and spends his time blowing on a whistle while the dogs are racing around like blue assed flies, with smiles on their faces, while he gets redder and redder in the face, having no affect whatso ever! :D
 
The nearest I will get to a spaniel is a cavi:p...............and I have not met one person that does not want to steal her:confused: as in PANCAKE:rolleyes:

"she is stunning, she is so cute, she is beautiful, she is so squeazable:eek:, oh wow we need her, Oh I love her:rolleyes":

Yeah well when you see her nicking the cats kill and chewing their heads in her bed you may think twice;):D or her hunting swifts, and rolling in ****:rolleyes:
 
You should visit Hampstead Heath, every second dog is a spaniel, and the other is usually a black lab. What happened to diversity in London!
 
I haven't seen a Spaniel around here EVER!

This is hound or Shepherd country. If they aren't purebreds then most farm dogs (and that's pretty much all I see, people don't actually walk their dogs where I live, just open the barn door generally) are hounds of one description or another.

In town it is really unusual to see people actually walking their dogs to the store, the only time you see them usually is either with their head out of a truck window or sitting in the truck bed outside in the parking lots.
 
Henry jumped off a cliff this weekend:eek:. Only a 6 foot drop, but that's quite a long way when you're his size! I think the bloke may have scarring in his arm where I involuntarily dug my nails in, and a pierced eardrum from the shriek I let out.:o

The thing is, the daft dog landed flat on his face in the sand, but five minutes later he did exactly the same thing again:eek::rolleyes:
 
See, they're bonkers only if untrained. my latest trick is one of those ball launchers: Zak no longer disappears into the undergrowth, Bear no longer slavishly follows Brig (thank God, cos he was after a huge grass snake yesterday :eek:. Any dog can be bonkers, give them a purpose and they're fab. I admit, the pups have been much harder work than the first two, but it's worth it.
 
Henry is trained, and he's still bonkers. Although in fairness, he jumped off the cliff in response to me recalling him, he was off up the slope hunting bunnies and when I whistled him he came tanking down. I thought he would turn and come down the slope, but instead he just did a full Superdog leap off the edge! So I guess he is a just a trained idiot:p
 
LOL I love spaniels! Will definitely have one as my next dog, will be a rest from the demented sheepdog I currently have!
 
Spudlet said:
Henry is trained, and he's still bonkers. Although in fairness, he jumped off the cliff in response to me recalling him, he was off up the slope hunting bunnies and when I whistled him he came tanking down. I thought he would turn and come down the slope, but instead he just did a full Superdog leap off the edge! So I guess he is a just a trained idiot:p
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Jake did this: we recalled, expecting him to go back down the cliff the way he came, but no, flying leap from 15 feet up. :eek: It was the quickest way, I suppose. :rolleyes: Top of the cliff at the back of the Hemlock Stone in Nottingham. Yup, bonkers!
 
Can I add Purdey to that list of Spangles who use 'free abseiling' as their preferred method of coming down a rock-face!
But yes - we are in real danger of being over-run, with any luck:D:D
Purdey's mum and dad have just had a litter of 6 pups - one of them will be coming to live with us:D:D Doubled Trouble:D
 
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