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oddman said:
S100HP said:
Yes - he's a fit little bugger - can clear about 5 ft from standing without a pheasantAstonZagato said:
I had a working cocker. We stayed in a friend's house in Norfolk. 6' wooden fence all around the garden. Left the cocker in the garden with our Golden Retriever. Came back out with a cup of tea. No cocker. I went round looking for gaps in the fence or holes underneath. Nothing. I whistled him back in. One cocker-shaped missile hurdled the fence, looking very pleased with himself.
7ft minimum is apparently recommended for spaniels, ours are all lower but luckily our WCS & current sprocker never tried escaping!AstonZagato said:
I had a working cocker. We stayed in a friend's house in Norfolk. 6' wooden fence all around the garden. Left the cocker in the garden with our Golden Retriever. Came back out with a cup of tea. No cocker. I went round looking for gaps in the fence or holes underneath. Nothing. I whistled him back in. One cocker-shaped missile hurdled the fence, looking very pleased with himself.
They do thatMine is trained to shoot with me so stays close unless hunting or on a retrieve.
Fences walls etc. he looks to me for permission to jump over.
oddman said:
AstonZagato said:
I had a working cocker. We stayed in a friend's house in Norfolk. 6' wooden fence all around the garden. Left the cocker in the garden with our Golden Retriever. Came back out with a cup of tea. No cocker. I went round looking for gaps in the fence or holes underneath. Nothing. I whistled him back in. One cocker-shaped missile hurdled the fence, looking very pleased with himself.
They do thatMine is trained to shoot with me so stays close unless hunting or on a retrieve.
Fences walls etc. he looks to me for permission to jump over.
He was an example of the old adage: "a Labrador is born half trained, a spaniel dies half trained".
My only previous experience was with a Golden Retriever who was very easy to control. Beamer (born in the footwell of a BMW!) on the other hand was a nightmare.
Whilst he was very eager to please, he would test the rules at every opportunity. He knew what they were but he'd just see if they'd changed in the last five minutes. You had to be "on him" the whole time. As long as you were, he was very controllable and obedient. If he managed to get out of your sight for a second, he would go freelance. He was hard work. But a lovely, lovely character.
I'd love another spaniel but my wife won't have one again. Goldies are so much easier than that WCS was!
Nora (eldest daughters Pug puppy), is round, Barry at the ripe old age of 3 is a bit of an old man and doesn't like any disruption to his daily life, so he is keeping away from Nora:
He's been there for about an hour, if we have people round, he disappears upstairs or into his basket under the stairs because it's all a bit weird, he's a funny sod!
He's been there for about an hour, if we have people round, he disappears upstairs or into his basket under the stairs because it's all a bit weird, he's a funny sod!
Edited by HTP99 on Sunday 21st January 11:56
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