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Cocker Specific Discussion => General Cocker Spaniel Discussion => Topic started by: aliceandlouis on February 03, 2010, 09:58:54 AM
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Only ask because when drying paws all three of my cocker spaniels, past and present, stand beautifully still for three paws and then fidget like mad and look eternally surprised that I should want to dry ANOTHER one!? :o This is such a feature that my whole family say 'lets dry your three paws - and then your spare!! :005:
Or is it just us? mmmmmmmmm
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Disney is the exact same :lol2: As soon as the 3rd paw has been dried, he tries to do a bunk! I then inform him he has 4 paws so he grudgingly comes back and lifts up the remaining paw :lol2:
This happens on every wet walk without fail but still makes me chuckle every time :luv:
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:lol2: I have never thought about it before but Mason does it too - he lays down and gives up after 3 paws have been done :005:
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sometimes I think Jarvis thinks he only has his 2 front paws :shades:
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Bonnie quite happily lifts up her front paws but she has a real moan when I do her back ones, i think i am going to change my attack mode and do the rear ones from behind her. It might be that doing them from the front i have to twist her leg a little.
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Smug reply here :005: Mine can count to 4, even Louis :lol2:
I always do their paws in the same order. Maybe that helps?
I get them to sit while I dry the right front then left front. Then I say stand and I dry the left back paw, then say turn round, which they do, so I can dry the right back paw. Sometimes I still have to give Louis a gentle push to make him turn round, but not often.
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Haven't got a clue, I've given up trying to do 8 paws so they just get squirted with the hose pipe shake off and come in... then I have to vac and wash the floors again... and their bed ::) ::) ::) ::)
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I've given up trying to do individual cleaning with 12 paws to do, by the time I get the first 4 done the other 8 have created a mess anyway ::) :005: I just make them walk over the Turtle mat and a towel in the back porch a few times and hope for the best.
I have noticed this when I bath them though, they'll let me dry their front paws and then they either roll over and try to eat the towel or do a runner to start their mad wall of death when I try to dry their back feet :005:
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TBH he dries his own paws (the advantage of teaching 'spin' both ways :lol2: ) so we rarely have to manually 'do' the counting procedure :lol2:
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Ah yes, the 4th paw is always the hardest to get to. For some reason my lot seem to think being dried with a towel is the most exciting thing ever, they all push and shove to get in there and it quickly descends into chaos. I now pop them on the grooming table one by one, saves me from disappearing under a soggy Cocker piley-on. :lol2:
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That's strange - I only mentioned this to my dog walker on Tuesday! I said that Tilly seemed to think she only had three paws when I am drying them and seemed astonished that I wanted to dry ANOTHER one! Cheryl said that a lot of the dogs she walks are exactly the same - can only count to three :005: :005:.
Strange but true!
Sue and Tilly
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Good girl Meg can count to four :luv: but little Alfie cant even count to one yet so i just do him in my arms, with him mumbling to himself ::) xxx
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I don't think Smartie can count atall, seems to only think her belly needs drying ever!!!
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Mine can def. count to 2 :shades: If i happen to forget their 2nd lunchtime biscuit, all hell breaks loose. :lol: :005:
I usually only dry their paws if they are sat in the boot of the car & they are very good at letting me wipe them, except if there are other dogs walking past, then its more important for them to get a birds eye view of the competition, ph34r :005:
At home i have the doormat & if its wet a couple of towels down, then just get them to walk over this. Luckily we don't have grass, so their paws aren't too messy. :blink:
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that is why we bought a 3 legged dog who does NOT fidget after 2 :005:
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Katie is very good at having her feet dried off, and will happily lay on her back ::) and have her feet dried off - mid air.
Henry aint so keen and seems to think that offering one paw (with a grumble) is sufficient enough.
Dylie is like his girly friend (Katie) and is an :angel: but would prefer to have the hairdryer on them though.
Morgan :angel: was like Henry, a defiant grumbler who thought he should be rewarded with the treat drawer for every paw wipe, eye wipe, face wash. Then again, if I could have him back I'd happily stuff that little grumbling face with whatever he wanted.
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that is why we bought a 3 legged dog who does NOT fidget after 2 :005:
:rofl1: :rofl1: :rofl1: Poor Hamish. :005:
Tia always tries to walk off after the 3rd paw too, and I always have to remind her that there is one more. ::)
Duggie can barely count to one yet, he does everything to get out of any paw drying, racing around the room, throwing himself onto the couch and back off again - usually once he's finished his carry on, he's dry anyway. :005:
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bless his little heart though :luv: cause he lifts his front two poors for drying good as gold but of course cannot lift the back one without falling over :005:
So I dry that one while he is sitting down!
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:005: it never occurred to me it was all the Cockers I just thought Molly was (dare I say it) thick or that maybe teaching her hi 5 with her 2 front paws was a big mistake :005: I can now get 3and a bit dry maybe one day she will have 4 dry paws.
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I watched with interest yesterday when my OH was drying and wiping Lady's feet (we have had a massive amount of much needed rainfall over the last 48 hrs) he'd just done the 3rd and yep guess what, she made a run for it!!
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Oscar is just the same quite happy to let me dry three but I often have to tell him he has another one :005:
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Our Mollie thinks she has 2 ears and no legs then.