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Cocker Specific Discussion => General Cocker Spaniel Discussion => Topic started by: Neon on September 14, 2012, 05:12:16 PM
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(This is probably more for show types than working)
On a walk, does your cocker zoom ahead like a rocket, or lag behind at snails pace?
Our lunch time walk today was only a mile, but it took over two hours, simply because Toby spends all his time sniffing. :005: I swear if I didn't hurry him along, we would be out longer than that. :o
If there's nothing to grab his attention, he just toddles along, about 50 yards behind me all the time. I have to keep stopping to see what he's up to and it would be so much easier if he was ahead of me.
Anyone else have a slowcoach cocker?
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When off lead in the field Maddi (show) belts about like a mad thing.
Part of me thinks she is just copying her daft brother (worker)
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Tilly is a mad one running everywhere at full speed...Erin is a plodder and a sniffer....she is never in a hurry.
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Millie is mostly on lead or she would be miles and miles away trying to kill things ph34r ph34r :005:
Charlie is usually hidden in the bushes staring intently at a mouse hole :lol2:
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Pippa (show cocker) zooms around. Runs ahead, realises we are out of sight, zooms back, runs off again, zooms back, snatches a treat, zooms off again.
Barney (Fauve) plods along behind us very, very slowly, sniffing every blade of grass for ten seconds. When called he wil start a slow amble towards us, then get distracted by yet another clump of grass to explore and stop for another sniff. Pippa sometimes gets annoyed with his slow progress and goes back to chivvy him along. Unfortunately, he takes no more notice of her than he does of us though.
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Maisy is a slow coach and has to sniff everything, it takes us ages to get anywhere! Lottie just run back and forth between me and Maisy, but will occasionally have her head down sniffing.
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arnie keeps cocking his leg every 2 min
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If she is on her lead she usually walks a bit in front of me, sniffing everything - or if she is in one of her moods, she is walking very slowly behind me looking fed up :005:. Offlead she is quite active, she doesn't tend to stray far but does enjoy a good run around. She is incredibly lazy though, and prefers short walks if we are at home.
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I would be rushing Bailey to the vet if he wasn't running around like a mad thing. He calms down when we get home... not a moment a moment sooner. >:(
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Mine are both show types.
8 year old William is full of confidence and energy and loves to run if we're out in the open. He'll run ahead of me and then come zooming back just for the fun of it. But he's also a rabbit and squirrel chaser. He knows all the local rabbit warrens and spends time with his nose down rabbit holes, especially in spring and early summer (baby bunny smell I expect). Woodland walks can be a nightmare once he's seen a squirrel. He just focusses on them and forgets everything else for a while.
3 year old Louis is much more cautious. He occasionally follows William but never goes as far and likes to keep me in sight. He isn't really interested in rabbits or squirrels, which seems odd for a dog with a track record of eating live birds in the garden.
William loves the New Forest whereas Louis would be just as happy on a patch of grass in a park chasing a tennis ball.
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Off lead Riley just runs sniffing constantly, will look up every now and then to check where Im at, then coming running nearer to me.
On lead he will either walk beside me with his head in the air, OR pull in front like a steam train sniffing everything.
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When off the lead, Penny thinks she's a worker and charges around chasing and sniffing, tail going non stop, mostly after birds. However, she does a lot of sniffing, and if she's on the lead she can sniff for Scotland! She never trails behind, but will come running if she gets left behind. In the house, she's quite chilled, except when she and Jonny have one of their 'fights' - the Biting Game, or Can't Catch Me.
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Meg just sort of mooches close to us, sometimes a bit in front, sometimes a bit behind just sniffing and checking where Alfie is :005:... although if we are on a n open field or the beach she chases Alfie barking! Quite embarrassing really :lol:
Alfie just runs around, in and out of bushes picking up random sticks/twigs, runnig with them for a bit then drops them and starts again. He is constantly checking for us though and always has to know where we are. I was really mean the other week and hid behind a tree... he was going crazy looking for me and since then he keeps even more of an eye on us! He also makes a bee-line for any water, he's a massive water baby
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Maisy is a slow coach and has to sniff everything, it takes us ages to get anywhere! Lottie just run back and forth between me and Maisy, but will occasionally have her head down sniffing.
well, that explains a lot of things! Pearl alternates between running off like a loon, spending forever sniffing her way along or being pinned to my right ankle with her teeth :005:
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When phoebe and mia are off lead they spend most of their time playing or chasing each other across the field :luv: but one russle of my pocket where the treats are and they are back greedy girlies :005: x x x
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Hmm,it all depends on what smells are about.
When we are walking through the woods to get to the big open park she will lag behind sniffing every blade of grass,piece of poo ph34r or general forest debris and i call her to hurry up.
But if she gets the scent of something interesting (dont ask me what) she trots ahead like a little steam train,head down and quartering.
Pavement walks are half and half.The slow bit is sniffing every lamp post and wall, the quick bit is when she smells food and she will always snatch it before i even see it. >:(
She gets impatient with me though.If we are walking along and it has started raining she hurries ahead and if i'm walking to slow she comes back to me,stands there and looks me in the eye and does two big "woof woofs" turns round and marches on ahead again.I think i'm being told "hurry up me hairs getting wet" :lol2:
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Smudge just generally mooches around really. Smelling all the different pongs about, getting fussed by other dog's hoomans.
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She gets impatient with me though.If we are walking along and it has started raining she hurries ahead and if i'm walking to slow she comes back to me,stands there and looks me in the eye and does two big "woof woofs" turns round and marches on ahead again.I think i'm being told "hurry up me hairs getting wet" :lol2:
Too cute!!!!
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as for the going ons on gemma's walks, it ditto jonnydog's penny
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Nerys (worker/show mix) zooms round the field in huge circles, but if she gets on a scent she is off like a rocket. She has learnt to come back, thank goodness! On lead she trots along sniffing the hedgerows.
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She gets impatient with me though.If we are walking along and it has started raining she hurries ahead and if i'm walking to slow she comes back to me,stands there and looks me in the eye and does two big "woof woofs" turns round and marches on ahead again.I think i'm being told "hurry up me hairs getting wet" :lol2:
Too cute!!!!
:lol2: :lol2: forgot to mention the weather! If it's even looking like it's going to rain then the brakes go on. She is seriously not happy if it starts raining when we are out, I get told off :shades:
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Mine are both show types - on lead at first they are raring to go and try and charge in front, but get distracted by the lovely sniffs they find, or litter/dead birds they try and eat :020:. On the home straight they pick up the pace again as they want the bikkie they are given for sitting nicely in the hall while I take their harnesses off and towel them down if it's been wet.
Off lead Charlie sort of trots around, Dexter runs around like a loopy hare. They also play and chase each other and dive in streams, my favourite when they're not playing is when they trot along together with their sides touching and looking at other, it's so sweet :luv:
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(This is probably more for show types than working)
On a walk, does your cocker zoom ahead like a rocket, or lag behind at snails pace?
Our lunch time walk today was only a mile, but it took over two hours, simply because Toby spends all his time sniffing. :005: I swear if I didn't hurry him along, we would be out longer than that. :o
If there's nothing to grab his attention, he just toddles along, about 50 yards behind me all the time. I have to keep stopping to see what he's up to and it would be so much easier if he was ahead of me.
Anyone else have a slowcoach cocker?
Lily, my first girl was like this Mel. She went for a 'sniff'', not a walk. :005: Luis is like it too, but he combines his sniffing with a good run...
Ollie just goes for it.....running as fast as a train.
Gracie will be joining Ollie I think...judging by her last walk. Xx
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Stella (working cockerX) and Wilf (showtype) zoom around backwards and forwards sniffing here and there - Roobs, completely blind and usually offlead goes at different paces some just sniffing at eveyr blade of grass and others she runs with a mission in mind. They all like to play games of 'find it' though while am out walking
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George and Ozzie depending on their mood walk behind and in front sniffing everything. George sometimes runs round in a big circle and chases Ozzie who tells him off. They both have to run to the other if the other appears to have a more interesting smell. Then Ozzie will occasionally bolt off like a turbo cocker thru a hedge after rabbits which is a pain.
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My working Cocker is anthing but slow but she does hoover the ground :lol: It's now included in 'lead control' the command of 'head up' :005: :luv:
Mel.
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Ours are working cockers and mostly zoom around, though it's weather dependent. Genie plods when it's raining. They're good at waiting to see which way I'm going and wait up for me. If they lag behind in hunting birds mode, I don't wait for them. They know they have to catch up. I've come to realise they don't want to lose me any more than I want to lose them. Alfie mostly sticks around me as he carries a ball at all times and it's his goal in life to get me to throw it. Genie's record for a bog off is 11 minutes but it ony happens very rarely and we're in a safe place.
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William hoovers the ground for any tasty titbits while we are walking through town. Depending on which walk we do, he will poggle along the shoreline eating bits of seaweed, covering the entire beach until he has sussed out anything that is remotely edible! On a fell walk, he gobbles up rabbit poo as if it is going out of fashion, and constantly cocks his leg even when nothing is coming out! Twiggy at the beach just races headlong into the water with a running dive, and on a country walk follows William in everything he does, including cocking her leg (in a rather peculiar fashion) wherever he has been. Crazy dogs! :blink:
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Bingley races ahead. Turns around. Barks impatiently because I am clearly not walking fast enough. Darcey trots about mostly but races off for squirrels and smells. (both show)
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Another Pocket Rocket here :005:
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Two workers here
If we take the throw they stick to me like glue, they are angels, Bella will carry it and drop it where she wants it throwing. Molly just follows Bella, they're never any further than a couple of metres in case throw disappears
If we don't have the throw we're in trouble, totally crazy, walked into next village yesterday throw less, absolute nightmare all over the place in the canal out of it, running further than I'd like, meeting and greeting, eating fishermans sweet corn, rolling in dead and smelly things, eating manure. Molly loves a good game of chase so will if one of her many friends is about, Bella just watches.
If on lead good, at home they pull until they get to the canal / field / footpath, beach, which is only a short distance. But is we're in unfamiliar teritory or a town they pretty much heel all the time.
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Juno's a show type livewire on walks. Often I'll just hear her in the cover parallel to the direction I'm walking in, and see a flash of white as she checks in with me. I frequently hide or change direction just to make sure she's keeping an eye on me and a few seconds later I'll spot her following my scent to find me :luv: If I've got the clicker/dummy/tennis ball with me for some training (most walks) then I can't get rid of her!
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Both of ours are show types.
On our walk in the lanes Emma has to be in front and sniffing, while Sophie is plodding along way back having a good sniff at everything, it takes forever to do our walk as we are constantly calling Sophie and going back for her.
In the park Sophie is like different dog, she cannot wait to get out of the car to chase a tennis ball, which she would do all day. Emma soon gets fed up of ball chasing, mooches around, then it's a battle to stop her heading off to the car, so she is put on a lead.
From reading the other posts it sounds as is ours are typical cockers :luv: :luv:
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Harry is two dogs in one. On his harness he's as good as gold and does his impression of a hoover for the first five minutes and then settles nicely. Funnily enough when we both walk with him he likes to be between us and walks on a slack lead and at our pace and its a most enjoyable walk. Then there's when he's off his lead, he goes zooming around in circles scenting everything and anything. When on the fields he barks like mad to play ball but when he gets the ball he usually runs off to lay down to try and chomp his way through it. After several fetches he just takes his ball home and sits on our doorstep until we get home which is only a matters of seconds from our local field. Harry is 8 months old and has just started to clock his leg. So the walks on the harness are beginning to take a lot longer than they used to.