The dodgy hip brigade goes walking

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Spudlet

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I suppose it makes us a good pair, anyway:rolleyes:

You want to walk how far?!
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Don't just sit there. Throw me a rock to chase!
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Yes, I have been swimming in this stinky ditch. What of it?
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The beach? Again? If we must...
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We both had an ice cream:p and he was of course absolutely perfect in every way, in fact more like a robot than a dog (like I'd dare admit anything else...:rolleyes:)

Oh and 8 miles without a hobble or twinge for either of us:)
 
Well he must have been pretty perfect if you could have him off lead in what looks like prime bunny country. I would have had to keep Evil firmly anchored I am ashamed to say. Looks like you both had a great day, very impressed at the lack of twinges. :)
 
He was a good lad, he never chases rabbits for long anyway (although they must have been in air-conditioned burrows today!). He scented a hen pheasant on the nest when we were on some conservation land (he was on the lead, but he knew she was there, I was proud of him) and left a cock pheasant when it landed pretty much on his head later:)

Ibuprofen is a wonderful thing;)

ETA, in fact you can see the hen bird in the picture with the gorse, she is a slightly lighter brown blob in the centre of the picture. I would have walked right past and never seen her, but Henry was on the alert which is what told me there was something to see. :) SO relieved, he walked right past a partridge the other day, thank goodness his nose still works!
 
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What Ibuprofen stops them chasing rabbits :p I agree, it is good stuff, I wear it instead of perfume.:D

Having just been a road walk with madam, and twice nearly been tripped up by her when baby bunnies popped up in the hedge, I am still in awe of your control and his self control.:confused::D
 
I think he was just too hot to be bothered when the pheasant came in to land, we were into the sixth or seventh mile by then after all and it was rather warm! It helped that the first four-ish miles were mostly on lanes or on conservation land so he got his initial crazy worn off before we got to a safe off-lead place - that and going for a swim in the sea too.

Of course, he was just saving it all up for a later act of nortiness which I will not discuss here:mad: However, he did do well at coming off other dogs, he has clearly learnt something from his nasty experience. I just need to find a bag of chips with a dog aggression problem now:p
 
Most of the time all you could hear were your own footsteps and birdsong. And the gorse smelt beautiful! The beaches were a bit busy in places, but I guess most people just drive to the beach and stay there, kind of a shame when there are such lovely cliff and heath walks so close by. The only fly in the ointment was that I spent too much money on ice cream and was then a quid short for getting a cream tea at the tea room we passed later on.Quel domage
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Mind you, there's always next time;)
 
Spudlet said:
Of course, he was just saving it all up for a later act of nortiness which I will not discuss here:mad: However, he did do well at coming off other dogs, he has clearly learnt something from his nasty experience. I just need to find a bag of chips with a dog aggression problem now:p
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ROFL :D

It looks like a fantastic walk. If you allow me and my robot to come and live with you, then I shall repay the favour by standing around eating bags of chips and making 'aversive' screeching noises any time there's a chance some will be stolen from me.

It'll be hard work, eating all them chips in the name of training, but I'm just really, really altruistic and helpful that way.

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Oh Pix, could you? Cos the nice man and lady who the chips belonged to were no help, he thought it was hilarious and said 'Now 'e is a true 'unter!' (think they may have been Italian?) as Henry steamed up over the twenty foot high sea defences and down the beach to see him (closely followed by me, wheezing away) and she said 'Oooooh but 'e looks so innocent!' when he had been put back on the lead with many an apology:rolleyes:

Fortunately, I think they were just leftover chips, not someone's dinner. Ah well, we were only about a hundred yards from the car too, eight miles without a hitch and then Killer Spaniel Attack at the very end:rolleyes:
 
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Sorry, google imaged 'imperfect dog' and that came up..... it's too good a loldog for me to resist :o


But I can still come and live at your place, right? Right?! :p
 
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