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Offline Poppypuppy09

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2013, 09:33:25 PM »
Lottie is a very beautiful fur baby indeed  :luv: :luv:

Welcome to COL, it's wonderful that you can open your hearts and home to a rescue girlie, once she is all settled I am sure she will pay you back for your kindness ten fold  :-*

Feel free to ask anything and everything's, lots of knowledge and experience on this friendly forum  ;)


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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2013, 09:44:13 PM »
We've been letting her settle in so not taken pictures yet - this is the only one I have.
Lovely Lottie.

Pretty girl  :luv: :luv:
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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2013, 06:11:20 AM »
 :luv: Awwww Lottie is gorgeous  :luv:

We recently got our 3rd cocker (all 3 have been rescues) and we just let her settle in in her own time. It's only recently clicked that we come back to her, and the howling has almost ceased. She's now quiet when we leave (if we cant take her will us) and only occasionally howls when she hears us return. They do learn pretty quickly!
Once Lottie has started to establish a routine, you'll find she'll start to trust and settle in more and more.
Sounds like you're doing the right things   :-)

Offline Sara_Clara

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2013, 03:34:14 PM »
Awww Lottie looks adorable.  What a lucky girl to have found you.  She will repay your kindness 100 times over.  she reminds me of our Pebbles who is 2 now and also an Orange Roan.

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2013, 05:24:46 PM »
She has been specialising in cuddles today, bless her. She doesn't seem to be interested in toys, or games like fetch, she just wants cuddles!

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #20 on: November 11, 2013, 08:09:04 PM »
Lottie is so pretty  :luv: Best practise the cuddles then, Lottie knows best!  :005:

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2013, 09:30:59 PM »
 :luv:  :luv:

Aaaw she is beautiful.  Such a gentle looking girl.  Get cuddling - who could resist.  So hope it all works out for Lottie and all of you.  She certainly deserves her forever home at last.   Well done to you for re-homing her.  I'm sure she will repay you tenfold with lots of Cocker love.

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2013, 10:24:20 PM »
She is beautiful and you are very lucky to have found each other. Don't worry about the big sighs. I think it's a cocker trait.  :D

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2013, 09:52:25 PM »
She's still lovely, and I think she's bonding with us all very well although I do think she is quite insecure - she'd like the cuddles and the eye contact to be pretty much constant! She's happier to walk now, though she often has to be persuaded first and last thing to go out for a wee - and turns straight round to come back after. Her eating still isn't good, but I've found she will eat the kibble if it is mixed with a bit of pate or a cheese triangle (I know this isn't good - but it's the only way she will eat it). Every single bit has to have a tiny bit of pate or cheese spread on, or she won't eat it. Fussy girl. I need to find some other ways to get her to eat.

We have introduced her to my friend's lab because we're hoping she can stay there for a couple of nights when we are away over Christmas. I took her round a couple of days ago, and to our great surprise when the lab (who is huge, 4 times Lottie's size) came too near me Lottie lunged and growled at her. The lab is now wary of her and leaves her alone, which is fine by her owner as she said she needed putting in her place! We presume she thought she was guarding me, as my friend picked her up today for an hour to take her without me and she was fine. She ignored the lab and sat on my friend's lap. But I never would have imagined sweet little Lottie would behave like that.

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2013, 07:40:49 AM »
 :luv: aw it's early days still
you will be finding out all about
each other :D
I wonder if she might like a wee
bit of salmon oil on her foods, good for her
coat ;)

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2013, 08:30:48 AM »
OK I shall search for salmon oil.  :D

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2013, 03:16:14 PM »
some rescue cockers can get overattached to their new owner which is a possiblity

my foster cocker would sit on my lap 24/7 if she could or at least be attached to me if I let her but I tend to treat her as if she's always been here and everything is no big deal and make her go to her bed every now and then just so she's not attached to me
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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2013, 03:29:37 PM »
Yes that is what she's like. I'm home almost all the time but I have to work (and look after the children) so she can't be on my lap all the time. She's asleep on the sofa at the moment but she looked pretty sorry for herself before she went to sleep! She also didn't eat anything this morning and has only eaten a bit of ham today that I fed her to make sure she would eat if she wanted to. I'm hoping she'll eat her dinner.

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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2013, 07:32:08 PM »
I wouldn't force her to eat (my current foster didn't eat for the first few days she was here but I didn't persuade her) - and unless mine are ill, if they skip the odd meal I don't worry and don't give them a substitute as you can set them up to be picky
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Re: New family for rescue girl
« Reply #29 on: November 20, 2013, 08:45:14 PM »
She's already picky unfortunately, but don't worry no forcing involved, she loves a little piece of ham. She did eat some dinner so maybe she just wasn't hungry this morning. Mind you, her dinner wasn't kibble.