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Cocker Specific Discussion => General Cocker Spaniel Discussion => Topic started by: Krisdt on October 06, 2007, 10:32:15 AM
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My oh has finally realised how much I love cockers after I nearly choked whilst watching dirty cows on living tv. The 4 girls had to have tea with the lads mum and 2 of her friends as they showed the girls coming into the room I spotted 2 big brown eyes and a nose eyeing up the plate of cream cakes. 30 seconds later you saw the lads mum with the little black cocker on its back getting a tummy rub on the sofa, a little while later the gorgeous cocker was on the knee of one of the friends giving/getting kissed and cuddled :luv: I was eating my dinner and nearly choked everytime I saw the little darling.
My oh thought I was a loon as I was calling him through from the other room to see the tv ::) :005:
Anyone else cocker spot? ph34r
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we cocker spot everywhere we go - not just on TV. We even have a little phrase which we use every time we see a cocker. If either of us is watching the tv and a cocker comes on we always call the other in to see him and if we see a cocker whilst we're out and about we always come home and tell each other about the - sad arn't we :005:
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I talked to my dad yesterday on the phone, him and my mum are on holiday in england. My mother has never really liked dogs, but I think we have changed her mind now because I could hear her in the background going: "Oh oh! Look! It's a Laurië-dog, a real one, looks like her too, how cute!" Turnes out it was a liver working cocker with a docked tail, so it didn't look like her at all. I'm sure it was gorgeous tho ;) But living in Norway they had never seen a working cocker before, Laurië has some worker in her so I think she meant the body type looked the same :lol:
I'm much worse, I allmost run to catch up with people if I see someone walking in front of me with a cocker. Trying to look casual and un-stalker like and catch my breath at the same time :lol: No cocker goes unnoticed around me, not on tv or in the real world.
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I am one of those stalker types that changes direction just to intercept people with cockers ph34r
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I am one of those stalker types that changes direction just to intercept people with cockers ph34r
Your not alone I just wasnt gonna be the first to admit to doing that ph34r :005:
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Me Too :005: Just can't help it can you.
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I do that too! I always stop people with cockers and talk to them; the moment you say, "Oh I have cockers" it's like you've known each other for years! :005:
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I am one of those stalker types that changes direction just to intercept people with cockers ph34r
Your not alone I just wasnt gonna be the first to admit to doing that ph34r :005:
Another one here :005: Cocker Spaniels and German Shepherds do it for me.
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Aw, just can't miss these little cockers. :luv:
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Im the same with cockers and springers ph34r. OH now spots them too so its catching :005:
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Whole family do the same here too :shades:
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Yep I do it too, in fact just met a super working cocker in the park called Badger put mine to shame with his running around, Rupert just wanted to see what he could thieve, last week met a 14 week old called Pandora, I always ask if I can take their picture have quite a collection on my phone.
Rupert's mum
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Always, i got lost a few weeks ago as i started stalking a couple of working cockers, but couldn't just walk back and make it obvious after i'd met them so i just carried on walking. ph34r :005:
I can spot any dog from ages away though, we can be in the car whizzing past people and i'll say oooooh, look! a ???????? (breed of dog) :lol:
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yeap, us too, I can spot another cocker at 100 paces and then some. Even point out other cockers to Muppet when we are in the car, Mad, completely barking mad!!!
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Yes I.m as bad ,have to say Hello to all the cockers :005:-even on holiday in Southern Ireland this year - I had to get out of the car to go and say hello to one gorgeous little cocker puppy :luv: - well I was missing my lot as they were in kennels :'(
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I am the same - Sam and I met 3 black working cockers in the park on Friday! :D
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I do that too! I always stop people with cockers and talk to them; the moment you say, "Oh I have cockers" it's like you've known each other for years! :005:
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me too, my Oh thinks i'm nuts. it's not just cockers for me though. we saw 4 pugs in the park the other day, i'd never seen one before so got really excited. one was a puppy, they are so ugly they are cute ph34r :005: :luv: we saw them again the next day so sped up to catch up with them!!! my sisters the same, we saw a st bernard and she practicullay run to catch up with him :005:
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they are so ugly they are cute ph34r :005: :luv:
I am glad I am not the only one who thinks like that about things, my oh doesnt understand the so ugly=cute concept either
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Yep, enbarrassingly we shout "Spangle!" in this household everytime we see one on TV, or out and about which is extremely rare in New England. I even rewound Cash in the Attic on BBC America to show husband James the cocker who featured momentarily!!
V. v sad.
I say hello to every spaniel variety we meet...come to think of it I stop to talk to most dog owners!
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In cafe's walking anywhere I tell everyone with a cocker I have one at home!
Cocker owners are in the main nice people.
Viv
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Me too! On Sunday OH went to a local lake to do some Scuba diving training, i obviously went along as surface support with Roxy. Whenever we're out and meet a cocker and their owner they're always so friendly. :shades: Anyway on Sunday i'm almost positive i met a cocker who is featured on the 'Keladity' website 'Bliss'. I was too embarressed to ask her owner but she was the spitting image of her, an absolute treasure....If it was her i'm dead chuffed for recognising her..............! :D
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Me too, if I'm in the car I always say to the kids 'Oh there's a cocker'
Trouble is the only reply I get now is 'I just knew you were going to say that'
Can't understand why they don't get as excited as me. >:(
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Oh yes, always spotting them! I always know if Ali's seen one in a mag or on tv as she always says to the dogs "oh DEAR, what's THAT? It's one of YOUR lot!" :005:
I love it out on walks as you can always spot them a mile off, no other dogs shuffle along like cockers... :luv:
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yup, same here :lol:
Daughter (age eight) spotted a photo of Roald Dahl in the paper yesterday and guess what :shades:..............he had a cocker with him :luv:.
We do the same with Springers too (don't forget that Harry is a cross between the two ( :police:) so we have a foot in both camps so to speak :005:).
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Yep. I am always spotting Cockers or any spaniels really.
We nearly got thrown out of PAH earlier this week for stalking a woman with a puppy, because we couldn't decide if it was a cocker or not. We didn't ask her either because she was giving us funny looks!
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Guilty I do it all the time. I stop the car & run after people as well :o :o
The thing is it's rubbed off on my two kids and OH as well.
12 year old daughter gets the bus to school & she cocker spots all the time ! Me & 5 year old cocker spot on the way to school. OH is a postie & knows all the cockers in the area :lol:
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Yep. I am always spotting Cockers or any spaniels really.
We nearly got thrown out of PAH earlier this week for stalking a woman with a puppy, because we couldn't decide if it was a cocker or not. We didn't ask her either because she was giving us funny looks!
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I "spotted" Maddy before she became mine ;) I even stopped my car to get out and speak to her owner.
I was totally in love at first sight, with Maddy not the owner :005:
About a month later I found the pups I had been waiting for were not going to happen.
Got totally desperate and rang about a "17 week old cocker bitch" in my local paper. It turned out to be the puppy I had met, she only lived on next street to me, her owner said on the phone "do you have a blue estate car" which I did at the time, she recognised my voice (not sure if that is good or bad :005:)
I shot round Maddy decided she was coming home with me, her first Mummy and Daddy see us out walking so say they have best of both worlds, they couldn't keep her but still see her well and happy. Yep I still "cocker spot" not managed to bring anymore home though :lol:
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Oh yes, same here cockers and springers, just can't resist s going " Ohh look " as the OH drives past going "What!!" love to stop and say hello and give them a pet if it's possible, totally besoted :luv:
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I stalked a couple for ages around Greenwich market a couple of weeks ago. They were carrying an 11 week old blue roan. I was out on a date with my OH and he'd insisted that I left my 9week old pup at home :'( The whole date then ended up being a cocker pup obsession
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Hmmm, I cocker spot and I haven't even brought ours home yet ::)
So although I can't stop people and chat to them about their cockers I still gaze at them :D
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I have cocker spotted for some time, now I have oh cocker spotting as well, he's become so good at it he spots them before me. We notice them mainly from their very distinctive walk, which after close examination of Murphy (from behind I have to add ph34r), we think resembles uncle alberts walk off only fools and horses, anyone else think this?? :huh:
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I love Cocker Spoting too!!! I must admit I'm a bit of an all round dog stalker....... :005: :005: I think it has rubbed off on Poppy as the best thing ever is just meeting another doggie. She has only met a couple of other grown up cockers but I'm hoping once she is bigger and we can go for longer walks that we will see a few.
We have been stalked by other Cocker Spoters though.... :005: Very funny when your out and someone (who you have never met before) says "this must be Poppy we were talking about her over tea the other night"...... everyone is at it!!! :rofl1:
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Donna26 stalked me at our local carnival :lol: :lol: :lol:
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A bit sad this but I spotted a Cocker in the park today not by sight but by sound - I could hear this excited, yelpy bark in the distance and just knew it was the type of noise only a Cocker could make. Sure enough it was 3 month black Cocker pup, cute as a button he was too.
As for being stalked by other Cocker owners, it happened to me once passing through Inverary. I was with my neice and we stopped briefly for a toilet break for Jimmy and Misty. It'd been pouring down and the grass was like a lake - the dogs made a sudden lunge and I went flying up in the air and landed on my back. >:( My neice just stood there laughing at me, then up came running 3 mad, crazy women screaming their heads off - I thought they'd come to help me off the ground or see if I needed the air ambulance but nope... they'd come to show me pictures of their Cockers and even worse, take photos of me with mine. :o When I got home I logged onto COL in dread that the photos might have been posted here - Jimmy and Misty looking like butter wouldn't melt and me crumpled up in agony, bruised face smiling weakly through gritted teeth and my clothes completely sodden and caked in mud. ph34r :lol:
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Yep guilty as charged, I got my fix today we have shadow 3 months, went on a little walk and lone behold a couple with a little blue roan 4 weeks older than shadow, the two babies had a great time rolling round the floor and us mums had a great discussion on all things cocker puppy. (funny though i was happy as larry letting him play, but if it had been another breed I am sure I would not have been so relaxed) Cocker love eh :005: