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After having lost our Border Collie, Flint, of 6 1/2 yrs to Epilepsy back in July, we have finally got ourselves a new puppy. We went for a German Shorthaired Pointer.
We picked him up yesterday and we are having fun and games with the toilet training. Meet Fletcher.
Sorry too much hassle to make the pics smaller, so shared them on Amazon. Not sure if I can do thumbs.
Yesterday
Fletcher Sleeping
Fletcher running around Garden
Fletcher in the Garden
Today
Fletcher getting comfy for a snooze
Fast Asleep
Just got to sort out his insurance now, but it seems petplan want £59 a month. From experience, despite others being cheaper, they will eventually all rise to as much or more to this within a couple of years. Oh well. What must be done, must be done.
We picked him up yesterday and we are having fun and games with the toilet training. Meet Fletcher.
Sorry too much hassle to make the pics smaller, so shared them on Amazon. Not sure if I can do thumbs.
Yesterday
Fletcher Sleeping
Fletcher running around Garden
Fletcher in the Garden
Today
Fletcher getting comfy for a snooze
Fast Asleep
Just got to sort out his insurance now, but it seems petplan want £59 a month. From experience, despite others being cheaper, they will eventually all rise to as much or more to this within a couple of years. Oh well. What must be done, must be done.
They are a fairly high energy breed, but he is replacing a Collie (also high energy) and his companion is a 6 year old Springer (high energy, but you wouldn't think so seeing her).
We have plenty planned for him when he is old enough to keep him subdued. Canicross, Agility and gun dog training. We are however only looking at gun dog training with dummies rather than birds etc.
I will say one thing for the breed...... The positions they sleep in seem to defy belief. How on earth can they be comfortable?
We have plenty planned for him when he is old enough to keep him subdued. Canicross, Agility and gun dog training. We are however only looking at gun dog training with dummies rather than birds etc.
I will say one thing for the breed...... The positions they sleep in seem to defy belief. How on earth can they be comfortable?
Well we have had him for nearly 2 weeks and boy is he hard work. He sure does pee a lot. If we tell him off for something he will pee. If there are fog beds out, he will pee on them. Good job I go a portable bissell and a George.
He had hist 1st Jab on the 29th, get his 2nd next Thursday and then his 3rd the week after that and then he can finally be taken on a walk rather than being carried for 1 walk by the other half. He's growing like a weed and he's starting to get heavy.
Once he has had his jabs he can also start going to training classes as well, although we are doing a bit every day.
I am sure my Collie was never this difficult in his first few weeks.
Our Springer is finally starting to tolerate him. He desperately want to be friends with the springer, but it is still at the I will tolerate you stage.
At nighttime he can go through until about 4:30/5 until we have to take him toilet, so he is getting better in that respect. When the other half is out walking the other dogs he gets crated as otherwise there will be pee everywhere by the time she gets back. He is also crated at night. I think he will be crated for at least the first couple of years of his life. My collie was crated until the day he left us (6 1/2 yrs) and our springer (6yrs) is also still crated (sometimes).
He had hist 1st Jab on the 29th, get his 2nd next Thursday and then his 3rd the week after that and then he can finally be taken on a walk rather than being carried for 1 walk by the other half. He's growing like a weed and he's starting to get heavy.
Once he has had his jabs he can also start going to training classes as well, although we are doing a bit every day.
I am sure my Collie was never this difficult in his first few weeks.
Our Springer is finally starting to tolerate him. He desperately want to be friends with the springer, but it is still at the I will tolerate you stage.
At nighttime he can go through until about 4:30/5 until we have to take him toilet, so he is getting better in that respect. When the other half is out walking the other dogs he gets crated as otherwise there will be pee everywhere by the time she gets back. He is also crated at night. I think he will be crated for at least the first couple of years of his life. My collie was crated until the day he left us (6 1/2 yrs) and our springer (6yrs) is also still crated (sometimes).
He will be 12 weeks on Monday and he already weight 10.3Kg. It seems is the biggest out of his litter (when we picked him out he was the smallest)
He is learning his wait, sit etc and he will be allowed out next Thursday. Can't wait. He can burn off his energy. He does have some mad moments, but as he is a pup, he also like to sleep.
We still cant leave any dog beds out as he will just go an pee on them. He still pees inside, but not when in his crate which is good. Had to put away the puppy pen today as he managed to knock it over. Thankfully it I was at home and did not collapse on him, but I think he is just a bit too heavy for it now, certainly when unsupervised.
He is still desperately trying to be friends with our springer and she is starting to tolerate him more, but I think it will be a while until she is friends with him. He is now pretty much the same size as her (she weighs 12kg).
He is learning his wait, sit etc and he will be allowed out next Thursday. Can't wait. He can burn off his energy. He does have some mad moments, but as he is a pup, he also like to sleep.
We still cant leave any dog beds out as he will just go an pee on them. He still pees inside, but not when in his crate which is good. Had to put away the puppy pen today as he managed to knock it over. Thankfully it I was at home and did not collapse on him, but I think he is just a bit too heavy for it now, certainly when unsupervised.
He is still desperately trying to be friends with our springer and she is starting to tolerate him more, but I think it will be a while until she is friends with him. He is now pretty much the same size as her (she weighs 12kg).
We have plenty of crates here in the house and he sleeps in one at night time and before the puppy pen he was left in a crate whilst the 2nd walk was taking place.
The other half is a dog walker/boarder/day carer, so loads of walks for him when he can go on them and plenty of dogs to play with. Also means we have crates of all sizes. He is slowly outgrowing the intermediate size crate and he will soon need to go to in the XL crate. We have a divider in case it is a bit big for him.
The other half is a dog walker/boarder/day carer, so loads of walks for him when he can go on them and plenty of dogs to play with. Also means we have crates of all sizes. He is slowly outgrowing the intermediate size crate and he will soon need to go to in the XL crate. We have a divider in case it is a bit big for him.
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