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General => Introductions => Topic started by: Clarabell on January 18, 2012, 11:10:55 PM
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Hello everyone, my name is Claire and I am the very proud mummy of Thea my beautiful 9 month old black and tan show type cocker :D
This is our first cocker and she is our world :luv:
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Hi Claire and welcome to the forum. Whereabouts are you? I'm Diane, live in SW Scotland and have Alfie, a blue roan worker.
When do we get to see photos of the beautiful Thea? Hurry up. :lol2:
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Hello and welcome :D We need photos !! :luv: I'm Wendy and I'm owned by Lottie & Lola we are in North Yorkshire
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Hello Wendy & Diane,
We live in Paignton, Devon which is a beautiful part of the country. Lots of beachs, fields and of course, the moors for Thea to explore. Although she is having her first season at the mo so just lots of long lead walks for the next few weeks bless her.
This site is wonderful. I wish I'd found this earlier. Although we haven't had too many problems puppy wise I'm sure I will have lots of questions as she is our first cocker. Thea is a true saint and the most lovable little girl. I will try and post some pics but it looks a little technical for me :005:
I love how you all say your owned by, that's just fab and so very true. We are totally smitten with Thea. She puts a smile on our faces from the minute we see her in the morning to when she goes night nights.
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Thea sounds heavenly. Will await your pics in due course :shades: :lol2: I am owned by Odie, a 2 year old golden show boy. He is also our first family dog (I also have 2 young daughters). COL has saved me on numerous times since he was a pupster :005: Enjoy the forum. Lesley
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Hello Claire and Thea :D
Welcome to CoL!
Oo you live in a lovely part
of UK(not jealous at all :005:)
We are steff and mr steff and our cocker
is Ellie the bluey showstyle girlie :luv:
We are in Yorkshire.
Will keep eyes peeled for
wee Thea on photo boards ;)
steffxxx
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Hello Claire and Thea,
like yourself im a 'newbie' too! Im picking up my working strain Cocker Louie shortly after a ten year gap from dog owning and i cant wait!
all the best Mick
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One good thing about this forum as well if you get to look at everyone elses spaniels :).
I'm Emma from Newcastle and my pups is Charlie (piccie below).
He's been a little angel since we've had him :)
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"One good thing about this forum as well if you get to look at everyone elses spaniels"
yes, but thats not always a good thing :005: have been getting really puppy broody with some of the stunners on recently, but def cannot have another dog. >:D
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"One good thing about this forum as well if you get to look at everyone elses spaniels"
yes, but thats not always a good thing :005: have been getting really puppy broody with some of the stunners on recently, but def cannot have another dog. >:D
That is the downside lol. But still, it's lovely to see other spaniels :)
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Hi Claire & Thea,
Welcome to COL!! I'm Lynn (from Cumbria) and most definitely owned by 13 month old Ruby :005: You will find loads of advice and friendly people on here, but be warned: It's very addictive!!!!!
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I aHi Claire & Thea
welcome i am owned by Bob:- he is a solid black show type, he will be 7 years in March.. how time flys
I am Wendy and i live in Essex ...... yep i am an Essex Girl :005: :005: :005:
THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX :lol:
We need photo Please.....
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Hi Claire and welcome to COL. Yes this is a great forum. I am owned by Cupar who is a 14 month old golden show type boy. We live in Scotland. As he is our first cocker I have learnt so much from other on here , their knowledge is boundless. We need photos of Thea to drool over please. :luv:
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Hi Claire
We have just joined COL too and have a 9 month working cocker. She's our first cocker and are similarly smitten :luv:
Looking forward to seeing Thea
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Hi,Claire, welcome to the forum. Bramble , (17 month) my show type blue roan send best wishes..Thi sforum is wonderful has helped me out so much. Latest news for us is that Bramble is now eating heartily! Same food.. Arden grange chicken and rice wet with warm water..but we started giving her a fish for dogs treat if she cleaned her bowl and hey presto.. she is now eating up every scrap! Hurrah.. after months of finicky eating this is a real triumph. :banana: (ftp://:banana:)
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Hello Welcome to COL. :D I am owned by Charlie a 6 yr old orange and white show type. ;)
Enjoy the forum, there are lots of great friendly people here with lots of knowledge, advice & support about all things cocker and many other subjects as well.
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Thank you so much for the warm welcome everyone :D I can't believe I've found all these lovely people all as passionate about their cockers as I am. Thought I was a bit mad.
I thought I would tell you all a bit about my beautiful Thea.
After doing our research, we being my husband and two sons decided that a black and tan cocker was going to make our family complete. We were lucky to find a wonderful breeder in okhampton which meant we could go and visit as often as we wanted. We first met Thea at 3 weeks of age & collected Thea from the breeder on may 7th last year ( my birthday) at 8 weeks of age. From that very first day she has been a confident, happy, loving ( and very dominant) little girl. When the time came that we could take her out, I was petrified about letting her off the lead but we plucked up the courage and have never looked back. She is totally amazing. Comes back every time.
We a truly lucky to have found this little treasure and I live for my days off so we can be together all day. On the days I work, she goes to her nanna & grandads for fun and playtime and they are smitten too.
Any advice on seasons & speying would be appreciated as we are going through her first. Want to make the right decision for her.
Love Claire & Thea xx
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello Claire and Thea
Welcome to the forum. Thea sounds absolutely scrumptious! :luv: :luv:
I have wee Penny who was born on the day you collected Your lovely Thea! She is a solid black and is our true delight. I'm dreading having her spayed but will do so after her first season. Is that your intention with Thea as well? Penny's not had a season yet, which I'm happy about :D
Cheers, Di, Jonny (springer) and Penny-Pup
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Hello Di & penny, I'm very confused as to what to do with Thea. I've heard that speying can ruin your dogs coat & cause weight issues but not speying has health issues too.The vets seem very pushy regarding speying which alarms me a little. The breeder mentioned the doggy pill but I'm not liking the idea of pumping chemicals into my girl. It really is a mine field.
Her season has not been too bad as she is such a clean girl but it's the lack of contact with her doggy pals that I'm not enjoying.
Hope penny doesn't suffer too much when hers arrives xx
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Welcome to the forum, you will gets lots of advice and fun here :D I am Elaine, with Bertie who is 11 years od and Lara who is around 6 years old.
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Lots of good advice here re spaying. Bram was spayed last october 8 weeks after her first season.. We took the advice on here and gota baby gro for her and she sailed through the whole experience. No weight gain, after, her show coat is is still lovely and in fact she is back to the playful girl we had before she her season.
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Hello Im Joan I too in live North Yorkshire not far from Wendy and also owned by Penny my little black and tan who is nearly 3 She is happy from the time she gets up till she goes to bed Glad you have fond COL but mind its addictive which means you will have paws on your laptop
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Thanks so much for the welcome and advice. I think we will go for speying as I want my girl to be able to run free with her boyfriends all year round :005:
I can't wait to be able to show some pics of Thea but I'm having probs there >:( x
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I opened an account with photobucket where you can "click on the IMG code" of the photo you want to share which "copies" it then you just need to "paste" it on the post on here
(http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g323/Wendy_Coates/IMG00510-20120109-1355.jpg)
Lottie and Lola xx
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Hi Wendy, I have opened an account but not sure how I upload pic from the iPad to photo bucket. I'm obviously being very dim here lol!
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My vet reccomended spaying at 6 months before the first season and so this is what I did with Coco. Have to say I have no regrets about doing it so young and would do again. The thought of her being restricted to lead walks for a couple of weeks would drive her and me nuts :o :005: She sailed through the op - came home that night raring to go, never bothered with her stitches and the biggest problem was trying to stop her from doing the wall of death round the garden before she was healed up >:( :lol2:
Re her coat, she has gone curly and more woolly but her coat is very soft. That is not a priority for me though as there are many health benefits to getting girls done and I just keep her coat short ;)
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Thanks for the advice. I hope I didn't come across as mostly worrying about her coat but the breeder & vets both said her coat would become hard to manage and as Im keeping her full coat, this did worry me a little. I've made the choice to let her coat grow as intended with just trims round paws and ears and I spend a lot of time grooming her which is something We both love and always intended to do. She loves her grooming sessions and very much enjoys showers and then being hair dryered. I personally don't want to have her clipped right back but I do know lots of cockers are. I have decided to have her speyed as I want her to enjoy free runs and not be confined to a lead walk every day for weeks and of course, to reduce the health risks.
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Lots of good advice here re spaying. Bram was spayed last october 8 weeks after her first season.. We took the advice on here and gota baby gro for her and she sailed through the whole experience. No weight gain, after, her show coat is is still lovely and in fact she is back to the playful girl we had before she her season.
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Can I ask about the baby gro and what did you use it for? I'm intrigued :D
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Welcome to COL :D
We have Florence who is 1 and is a show blue roan. We had her spayed at 6 months and I have to say that her coat hasn't changed at all yet and was fine after the first 24 hours after the op and back to normal after a couple of weeks (though we were a little careful with her after that). Some people use the baby gro to stop them licking their stitches. I used a head collar as Florence kept bothering her stitches and I was a little paranoid about her ripping them. There's lots of info on spaying on the health section which is worth a read.
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Florence, what a gorgeous name :D
Thanks for the advice. Very helpful indeed & I will be looking out for the baby gro. Any ideas where I can get one? :005:
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Any ideas where I can get one? :005:
Try Oxfam ;)
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Hi and welcome, we live in Suffolk and have Sophie who is almost 6yrs and a blue roan and Emma 4yrs and a orange roan.
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Hi and welcome to COL. Good to have another little black and tan girl! We have Abbi who is nearly 3. She is the centre of our lives and she knows it! We had Abbi spayed at 6 months before her season, on our vets advice, and she was fine. I don't think her coat has changed really, but she has quite fine hair which we keep quite natural.
We're planning our next cocker so guess that means we've had it fairly easy with Abbi!
Looking forward to seeing little Thea soon.
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Ah! Your beautiful Abbi looks so like Thea :luv:. We too have let her coat grow naturally and her feathers on her legs looks like we have used the crimpers on her :005:
Great to see pics of other black & tans as I am yet to come across another one down our way. I keep getting asked if she is an Afghan hound puppy :005:
thank you all for the advice :D
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Hi and welcome,
We have a golden girlie called Roxy who is beautiful and very loved and indulged by us all !
Have you tried downloading the photo bucket app onto your iPad? It easy then to copy the "code" and switch between the screens and paste onto here. I found it quite easy once I got the hang of it
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Hi and welcome to COL :D I am Jan and owned by Mollie another black and Tan :luv: She will be 10months next week.....born 6thApril.....and has just finished her first season with no problems :013: :clapping: She is the love of my life :angel: We live in Dorset . I too am wondering about spaying.....i don't want to ruin her coat but more importantly don't want the health risks of not spaying :dunno: I may just wait until after her next season when she is a little more mature :-\ ;)
Enjoy the forum.....you will learn lots.
(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k539/janandted/LaHerradura2011-2012022.jpg)
This is Mollie at 9 months. :luv:
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Ahh! Molly looks just like my Thea. So lovely to see another black & tan baby. Absolutely beautiful. We have now come to the end of Thea's first season and the only downfall was her not being able to run free with her friends. Such a relief to be able to finally let her off the lead.
I was thinking along the same lines as you re spaying so we will see. Just wish I could get a pic up of Thea. Still having problems >:(
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Hello and welcome to the forum, I too am Claire, I am owned by Charlie, he's a 7 year old show type cocker.