Karran
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I have a working Cocker - I was reluctant to begin with - I live in London and work fulltime and my partner works away a lot so worried that we'd struggle to keep her amused but I adore her to bits.
She is up at the yard with me 3 times a week, and has three walks a day for about half an hour each off lead in the "little" park during the week and at the weekends we go to the woods or the "big" park for an hour or so on top of that.
She came to me at end of Feb and had no training at all, begged for food, clambered on sofas, chewed shoes, nearly ripped my arm out with her pulling on the lead but she's amazingly intelligent and that's all stopped now, we walk nicely on a lead 90% of the time, she knows sit, stay, down, roll over, paw, to spin on the spot and has a little cone that she hits with her paw as "target" practise.
We're currently learning how to bow and to do distance sits.
She's the most vocal dog i've ever met, not barking but whining, squeaking and grumbling.
She's good with horses and adores children she's met in the park (awful with chickens though).
She's a pain at the moment as has been spayed last Monday and confined to the house and tbh we're struggling with that a bit, she is going a little stir-crazy so really looking forward to getting the all clear for a good run about.
Downsides to her is that she is very clingy, likes to be as close as possible to me, needs endless amusements either with her bone or her toys but as long as she's in the same room will play with them happily. She's almost too smart for me and figures out ways to defeat my attempts at having afternoon naps on a regular basis.
But Quagga sums her up perfectly! She's a happy, busy little dog and i'd def look into replacing her with the same breed/type when the time comes.
She is up at the yard with me 3 times a week, and has three walks a day for about half an hour each off lead in the "little" park during the week and at the weekends we go to the woods or the "big" park for an hour or so on top of that.
She came to me at end of Feb and had no training at all, begged for food, clambered on sofas, chewed shoes, nearly ripped my arm out with her pulling on the lead but she's amazingly intelligent and that's all stopped now, we walk nicely on a lead 90% of the time, she knows sit, stay, down, roll over, paw, to spin on the spot and has a little cone that she hits with her paw as "target" practise.
We're currently learning how to bow and to do distance sits.
She's the most vocal dog i've ever met, not barking but whining, squeaking and grumbling.
She's good with horses and adores children she's met in the park (awful with chickens though).
She's a pain at the moment as has been spayed last Monday and confined to the house and tbh we're struggling with that a bit, she is going a little stir-crazy so really looking forward to getting the all clear for a good run about.
Downsides to her is that she is very clingy, likes to be as close as possible to me, needs endless amusements either with her bone or her toys but as long as she's in the same room will play with them happily. She's almost too smart for me and figures out ways to defeat my attempts at having afternoon naps on a regular basis.
But Quagga sums her up perfectly! She's a happy, busy little dog and i'd def look into replacing her with the same breed/type when the time comes.
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