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Cocker Specific Discussion => Behaviour & Training => Topic started by: bluesmum on October 12, 2004, 10:34:29 AM
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Could Blue be going through a Kevin stage again at 19 months?????
Blue's recall is usually quite good but just lately he is just ignoring me :blink: he went through the same when he was about 12 months old but never went out of sight but the other day Blue just went off and left me and I had to chase him down the path!!!!!!!! I'm presuming that as he is entire, he has possibly caught the scent of a bitch :rolleyes: any ideas of what I could do to prevent him wandering off??
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Alfie, at 18 months old , is also going through the Kevin stage!! In fact he's very similar to my 12 (going on fifteen) year old son!! God help them both, 'cos I've had enough!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
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You mean the Kevin stage is supposed to stop? I must go and tell Chloe who obviously hasn't read the spaniel manual :D :D :P
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Alfie, at 18 months old , is also going through the Kevin stage!! In fact he's very similar to my 12 (going on fifteen) year old son!! God help them both, 'cos I've had enough!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
I don't envy you Sass with two Kevins :wacko: I still remember those days :ph34r:
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Hi Maria
This is quite interesting - Morgan turned into a right disobedient little sod a few months after Cooper came home. I don't know if he was just asserting himself or if he thought I'd be too busy with Cooper to notice :rolleyes: :D Sometimes I think they plan it one distracts you while the other misbehaves.
He wouldn't come back when we were out and I had to retrieve him from the river/sea/loch a number of times. I kept him on lead for a few weeks but have recently started letting him off again (mainly to preserve my back from the voilent tugs :rolleyes: ) and he's been great B) Think he just needed reminding who was boss.
In saying that, he did go AWOL for a few minutes today - we'd passed a woman out with 7 dogs, I stopped to release Cooper from some brambles he'd got caught in and while I was doing this Morgan had doubled back to go for a walk with the woman. When I found him she explained that one of the dogs was mother to three pups she had with her and this bitch was in season again - all dogs were off lead :rolleyes: Needless to say, poor Morgan had to go back on the lead for the remainder of the walk!! ;)
I'm sure he's just trying it on and will be back to his normal self in no time :-)))
P.S. Any recent pics of Bailey, so that I can wave them in front of Eric and convince him that we can't live without a B&T!!! :D
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Looks like Blues back on lead then for a while :(
Shirley I'll get some pics taken just as soon as I remember to get some batteries for the camera :rolleyes: :lol:
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Hi, having just read this post, whilst reading replies to my own (squirrels!), i am now understanding that maybe it isn't squirrels as much but the dreaded teenager!! Jess is now 8months so I guess that makes her one and I think I will also put her back on the lead for a bit and see how that goes. <_<