Otto's Exploration of Leicestershire.

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Just a few pictures of some of Otto's recent outings, including IMO the BEST picture ever! :D

Swimming in the Trent

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This is my best side...

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Due to extreme misbehaviour, practising recall, which he did perfectly :rolleyes:

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You can just make out his bleeding tail :( Which has yet again spilt, today he came back from his walk with his sides covered in blood, we had some very odd looks from people! It started off not too bad, but has just got worse and worse, so I think we will be off to the Vet's again soon :(


And my new favourite picture, taken today at Calke Abbey, Otto posing on a fallen tree (I'm not squatting down to take this picture, Otto is just very high up!)

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That is all :D
 
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Bless him! That is a beautiful picture of the little black and white rogue. :D
I'm sure he is very much enjoying all the new sights and smells of a new area, must be great for a dog to find all the new 'best' places to go and explore! :)
 
I do love seeing pictures of Otto :D He is so cool :) Hopefully you'll vet which actually get the tail sorted this time, are you still hoping for an amputation?
 
Those pics are lovely - but really you must get him to Bradgate Park to meet the deer asap :D That's the best place to walk a dog! Well it is once you get 6 feet away from the carpark, as by then you've passed all the lovely people from Braunstone and Saffron Lane who never leave the side of their cars...
 
Otto goes mental on grass, I prefer walking him through heavy woods, it keeps him in a bit closer! :D The Outwoods just the other side of Loughborough is my favourite.
My friend used to be a Police Woman in Braunstone... say no more :eek: :D

Gina - I don't really care what happens to it, I just want it sorted! I am a little bit apprehensive about it getting amputated as I know a lot of Vet's tend to mess it up. My Mum has a Vet friend who has developed her own way of doing it that heals brill, but she's all the way down south, so a wee bit far to travel!

Vizslak - Otto is having a LOT of fun exploring new areas, a little bit too much fun perhaps, any commands he had learnt have gone clean out of his head :mad: :mad:
 
My dad was also once a Braunstone copper - I think the word we are looking for here is eeeeep:eek:

Henry is the opposite, he vanishes off in woodland far too often for my liking:o:mad: He probably doesn't go that far but I like to be able to see him more often than I can't... Swithland wood is also very lovely though:)

Poor Otto and his tail:(
 
Hi Kirstyhen - are you based near Loughborough? That's where I originate from! (now down south). Think I have a liver & white version of Otto (Dylan) and his namesake who is springer x lab (also Otto!)
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One of my friend's first call outs was to an axe attack... :eek: :eek: :eek:

Otto has only really been walked in woodland since we got him, living near the Forest of Dean (note: near NOT in!!) meant all the best walks were in wood, so it's just what he is used too. Grassland just means he goes further and further to find woody smell bits! :rolleyes:
 
Yup, not far from Loughborough now, moved to Gloucestershire to go to Uni and stayed there, but have finally moved back home.
We'll excuse the Lab bit in Otto as he looks very Springer-ish ;) :D They are both beautiful, L&Ws where always my favourite until I got Otto! I probably still prefer them, I'm just biased to Snotbag! :D
 
Your Otto is lovely (must be in the name!)- I do like black and white - Would be good to have one of each (if you were mad enough!) I grew up in a village called Sutton Bonington but moved away years ago. We always used to go to Bradgate Park & Charnwood Forest with the dog when we were kids. Seem to remember there was a big hill which was supposed to be an old extinct volcano somewhere round there & it snowed heavily one year & everyone was toboganing & skiing down it! Also was in the Quorn PC so went to lots of rallies out that way too - we are talking a long time ago now mind!!
 
Or there's the huge hill near Thurlaston, can't remember what it's called but you'd have to be mental to sledge down it, it's really steep and has a road at the bottom:eek:
 
I think it could be Beacon Hill & Old John rings a bell! Aah memories!! I also was a member of SBRC- they used to use the fields at the farm where I kept my pony (don't know if it was still the same place) up Hungary Lane - we used to jump the x-country fences bareback in headcollars when we were bringing the ponies in - those were the days! haha!!!
 
If I did not know different I would swear that track/crop filed/hedge walk is where I walk my dogs:eek: strange!
Lovely piccies, I take it you moed from the farm u lived with the akita x, have your horsies moved too? I doubt you would have left em behind:D:D
It looks to have lovely walks where u have moved too.
 
How funny! Can you still walk along the banks of the Soar do you know - always seem to remember being able to walk for miles with the dog along the footpath down Soar Lane & could go for miles towards Kegworth & Rempstone - probably all built up now! Sorry - using your post as a trip down memory lane! I'm sure Otto will love discovering all his new walks!
 
Mwahah, you didn't know I was stalking you, did you!? :p

Yup, we moved a week and a bit ago now, horse, dog and gerbil all moved on the same day, was rather hectic! Was tempted to steal the Akita X away with me, but left him behind. :(

We know all the best walks around here as my Parent's have tried and tested them all with their dogs! :D
 
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How funny! Can you still walk along the banks of the Soar do you know - always seem to remember being able to walk for miles with the dog along the footpath down Soar Lane & could go for miles towards Kegworth & Rempstone - probably all built up now! Sorry - using your post as a trip down memory lane! I'm sure Otto will love discovering all his new walks!
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I think you can still walk along it, been ages since I've been that way! The soar runs near the fields I keep my horse in, and the footpath is certainly still in use at that bit!
 
Great pictures. Have you moved far away from your old house now?

I do really recommend taping the top section of a 500ml coke bottle to his tail. It forms a "cone" and they bang the pop bottle instead of the injured bit of tail when they wag it on door frames etc.

It certainly sorted Jasper's wagtail out.
 
Strapping his tail like the PM I sent you, will give it time to heal, the only problem is that he would have to have it strapped 24/7 to prevent it happening again and that doesn't seem fair to me, he's not a huge fan of the strapping when it's just for walks!
I don't really want to put him through an Op, I just want it to stop bloody splitting!
 
Fab pictures of Otto as usual :) He is such a happy chap :)

I took Flyn for a ten mile ride today (and as you can imagine, he probably did at least 15!!) the minute he got home he was tearing round the garden with the puppy - honestly, there is no end to the energy of a Springer!

I hadn't realised you had moved - good luck in your new home :)
 
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