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Patches

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...I have a fluffy dog basket with a couple of toys in it sat in the living room.....yet I don't get my new puppy until next weekend?

I have nothing to put in the basket yet, but I am finding myself looking at it quite a bit.
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We pick up Harvey on the 19th. I wonder if the breeder gets out of bed early in a morning!
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Nah, I always stock up on things before I get a dog in - just not beds because they live outside and not toys because I never let dogs have toys for too long at a time (they're mine, not the dog's
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) - my fetish is leads and brushes
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I went three years without having a dog once but I still kept buying leads for the next one
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I have a little black puppy lead and collar, brush, comb, food, puppy training treats, a fluffy cuddly toy, the bed, a puppy kong and a puppy kong wubba.

I also have feed and water bowls, two fleeces and a Christmas "puppy stocking". I am going to pick up some feed late next week. He comes home with a supply of Hill Science, but I'm going to slowly move him over to James Well Beloved I think. (I say I think...I'm 99.9% certain that's what we'll go for but I might be swayed if some of you lovely people on here recommend something else).

I also have the obligatory supplies of kitchen roll, accident deodoriser, dettol and a mop and mop bucket just for puppy puddles. My dog crate has been cleaned and will get cleaned and disinfected again next Friday evening.

I cannot believe he's seven weeks old tomorrow. Time has flown.
 
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Wow, lucky boy
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Have I forgotten anything?

I've got a book on raising/training the English Cocker and I have also bought and watched a Cocker Spaniel DVD too (which I didn't think was detailed enough...but hey ho).

I've ordered an identity tag. I need to pick it up next week.

The yard has been cleaned, the house de-cluttered of kids chewable and choke hazard toys. I've brushed the first lot of buckets of Jeys around the yard and might do the yard again with a milder disinfectant (possibly virkon) next Friday evening/Saturday morning.

He will have had his first jab, so will it be safe for me to let him out on the hard standing area outside the door until after his second jab? What about the garden...can he go onto the garden before the second jab and quarantine period after?

The other dog, the working Collie, doesn't come into our garden (well hasn't been in it since August/September time I would guess).
 
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Hehe!!
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You sound properly organised
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- he is going to be one spoilt spangle!!
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Of course St Sweep has never been spoilt......
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Oooops sorry just had to move along the sofa as Sweep needed to stretch out......
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You may want to look at Skinners - it is the same as JWB but half the price.
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I think all spangles are spoilt. They look at you in such a way that you would give up you meal for them.....believing their need is obviously greater, given their sorry expression and doe eyes. It's when the haw shows that I become even more inclined to feel sorrow.
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I'll have a look at Skinners. Won't be buying a big sack to start with, just incase he takes a dislike to anything. I've left that till last to ensure the longest sell by date, although I realise it's not likely to go off before he's gotten through a couple of kilos of it.

I will look forward to the scanned pictures of St Sweep.

I keep thinking of Jasper and smiling to myself. He is the reason I am having Harvey. Without having had him, I wouldn't have fallen in love with Cocker's. That love is his lasting legacy to me.
 
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He will be fine in your garden. If your collie is up to date with his jabs he will be fine.
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Yes, Bess is up to date (as was Jasper as he was probably in the garden - and actually he technically still is
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- after Bess was last in it). She's also up to date with worming, although again the garden does have any dog poop cleaned up...although I will check it over just incase we missed any.
 
He should be fine x

God, mine seem awfully neglected
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Skinners should be fine, I am switching back to Arden Grange but that is just because B is an over-sensitive little sod and his skin is irritated again, I don't think anyone else on here has had problems with it.
 
I had three on the list...Royal Canin, James Well Beloved and Chudleys.

I am ashamed to say Jasper was on meat until he was about 2 years old when I moved him over to Beta field (as it was then called) when he started beating with my ex. He finished his life on Arkwright's from the local agricultural merchant as it was the only feed he would eat.
 
You sound TERRIBLY organised patches - I imagine there is MUCH more excitement about new puppy this year rather than the other important event happening the following weekend
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We started our pup on Hills science, and as she loves it we never changed. I don't know a lot about the different brands though (prob don't get a lot of them over here). Is Hills not a good make then (it certainly costs enough
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Good luck

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Yes I believe it is a good make, but it just didn't factor on my "hit list".
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Maybe someone here can tell me if it's prudent just to keep Harvey on Hills?
 
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