So, I’m picking up a spaniel this week.

[babymare]

Our spaniel is content having 2 very good walks a day. Occasionally she has mad 10 mins but half 6 at night she’s asleep snoring until next day? we were blessed ?

 

[gunnergundog]

Ha!
All I will say is that four years can make a vast change in the needs/requirements and perceptions of both humans and dogs, plus the attendant human relations! (Check our PM history if wondering what I am on about!) Good luck...hope it works out for you this time.

PS Has there been a divorce that I wasn't aware of in the preceding four years? Just asking!
PPS Will it be a 'pointy' dog next?

 

[druid]

She can still have Alizin (mismate)

Also, Pepper is known for throwing soft neurotic quirky dogs (I have several with the lines including a son of his). Pepper is by an Irish dog (Broc) bred literally down the road from me and campaigned by a good friend so I have much of his breeding in my kennels.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

She can still have Alizin (mismate)

I didn't know you could leave it 14 days. Will that mean she'll miscarry/expel?

What the bloody hell was the previous owner thinking? ?

 

[GSD Woman]

I don't remember the exact circumstances but a friend had to have the mismate injection with one of her shorthair bitches. She left her at the vet's office while she (friend) went to work. It sounded like it was a whelping with half baked puppies. <-unable to survive out of the womb.

 

[Tiddlypom]

IMHO you're being very kind but nuts by taking on another spanner, Clodagh, let alone one that has been let down so badly by her previous owners as this one, but I wish you all the best with her.

It seems that some HHOers know where she's come from IRL, and it's not good.

Fingers crossed that it all works out, even if you end up getting her set up to move to another good home later on.

 

[Clodagh]

On our way home

 

[Clodagh]

She’s actually quite pretty. Quiet but not too bad. We are at a motorway services (she’s not coming out) so it’s smelly and noisy.

 

[some show]

She looks really pretty!

 

[spacefaer]

I believe they give the "morning after" jab after 21 days

 

[Clodagh]

Well we’re off to the vet, she’s got a horrible discharge. ?

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Well we’re off to the vet, she’s got a horrible discharge. ?

Poor girl. Thank god you've taken her on.

 

[SAujla]

She is the luckiest spaniel, even if she can't work her she can hopefully be rehomed and finally have a happier life

 

[Tiddlypom]

Well we’re off to the vet, she’s got a horrible discharge. ?

Oh goodness . Poor dog, but such a lucky one to have found you.

Please update once vets have seen her.

 

[Clodagh]

Things you never plan for. I ought to get an ok to spay her as technically she’s on loan, but no reply from her owner and vet wants to do it now.
It will of course be done whether owner says yes or no. They are just scanning her to check if she’s empty.

 

[AmyMay]

Things you never plan for. I ought to get an ok to spay her as technically she’s on loan, but no reply from her owner and vet wants to do it now.
It will of course be done whether owner says yes or no. They are just scanning her to check if she’s empty.

Do they suspect pyometra?

 

[Clodagh]

Do they suspect pyometra?

Yes

 

[CorvusCorax]

Shite

 

[Nasicus]

Oh christ, all fingers crossed for the little maid Clodagh!

 

[Clodagh]

Shite

No good deed goes unpunished. ?

 

[Clodagh]

Surgery went well. No leakage. I can pick her up soon. The first vet advised she went to OOH for overnight monitoring but this was the senior vet and she said she didn’t think it was necessary ( with all due disclaimers). ?

 

[palo1]

Blimey @Clodagh!! Lucky little dog that she came into your hands though I feel a bit sad for the poor wee thing having vile discharge/pyo. I hope she recovers well and can start over again with you. Good on you for taking her.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Unluckiest/luckiest spaniel ever! How are you going to keep her separate from the others?

 

[Spotherisk]

Not great from the former owner ? poor thing. Oh well it will give you time to bond!

 

[BeansNsausages]

Poor love. What a day she has had.

 

[Moobli]

What a pretty girl she is.
What a welcome though ?. Thank goodness she’s come to you. Fingers crossed she recovers quickly.

 

[AmyMay]

Not great from the former owner ? poor thing. Oh well it will give you time to bond!

It’s the risk you take with an unspayed bitch. However, there’s clearly a back story - and she’s clearly landed on her feet with Clodagh. Let’s hope the previous owners stump up for the surgery costs.

 

[druid]

At least it takes the decision out of your hands on spay or not. Hope she bounces back quickly

 

[Clodagh]

She’s very unsettled. Understandably, and also she only woke up 45 minutes before I picked her up. She is now feeling rotten, in a house (never been in one before) and surrounded by strange dogs and people. Poor little mite.

 

[ycbm]

Poor little love. Hopefully she will soon work out how much better off she is with you.
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