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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Lazydocker on 14 May 2012, 20:58:49
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Evening all... I'd like to introduce a new member of the LD household... This is Willow, she'll be 8 weeks old on Thursday and coming home next weekend :y :y
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7191600176/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7191602502/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7191600822/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
I'm sure there'll be plenty of pictures to come ;)
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Just beautiful, what a lovely little girl plenty of walks this summer !
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Just got to keep her away from the BBQ at the meets ::)
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Very cute. What flavour is she? :y :y
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Very cute. What flavour is she? :y :y
Black Lab. Very pure :y
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She looks gorgeous Paul, i love her almost as much as Emma!!! I'm sure she'll have a long & happy doggie life! :y
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Such an innocent face :P Lovely pup :y
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Gorgeous. :y
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Awww .. I want to steal her! ;D :y
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Yep i want her too...she looks great....i have a lurcher that i rescued from kennels in Devon two years ago and is just superb..i hope she turns out to be great for you all too
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She's coming from some very good friends of ours and has hopefully inherited the looks and smarts from mummy and daddy ;) Both are very intelligent, well bred pedigree dogs :y
If she has then she will be a breeze to train :y
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Georgeous :y
Always loved lab's, esp the choc ones ;D
We've got a loopy cavalier king charles in the family at the moment tho, he's a bundle of joy but a handful at times ::)
All the best with your lovely new dog :y
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yeh, just had a look at her on fb, looks a really nice doggy wog. :y
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Georgeous :y
Always loved lab's, esp the choc ones ;D
We've got a loopy cavalier king charles in the family at the moment tho, he's a bundle of joy but a handful at times ::)
All the best with your lovely new dog :y
tend to try & shag your ankles them things. :o
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;D
You know my dog then do you Jon? ;D
He's just mad and a joy but leave the room for five mins and come back in, and he acts like he hasn't seen you all day :o
Crazy mad thing ;D
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You know my dog then do you Jon? ;D
He's just mad and a joy but leave the room for five mins and come back in, and he acts like he hasn't seen you all day :o
Crazy mad thing ;D
bring it to the next meet, im sure my staffy will have it for breakfast. ;D
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How dare you ;D
I will bring him along, maybe ?? :-\
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How dare you ;D
I will bring him along, maybe ?? :-\
yummy. :P
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Very cute. What flavour is she? :y :y
Liquorice from the colour ;D ;D
Nice puppy that.
She has that "i'm going to be a pain in the arse" look in her eyes ;D
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Very cute. What flavour is she? :y :y
Liquorice from the colour ;D ;D
Nice puppy that.
She has that "i'm going to be a pain in the arse" look in her eyes ;D
Yeah, she does a little ::) TBH, she's coming from some very good friends of ours and has good breeding. The litter of 3 pups are already house trained at 7 weeks, although there's still the odd accident, and starting to obey simple commands. Willow responds to her name 99% of the time already and when we visited again on Sunday she came straight out of the pen and over to me :y
Just got to let the cat stamp her authority on the pup as soon as we get her home and things should be OK :y
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What a Heartbreaker! :y
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Awwwwwww, how cuuuuuuuute :y :y
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just let the cat see her and she will deal with willow,when my cat saw our black lab she looked,stormed out,couple of hours came back upstairs in to flat and alfie was sitting at the stair gate looking at the cat,as the cat walked passed him she swiped him across the nose and from that moment they got on really well,miss both off them as cat is the evil ex and had to rehome alfie :(
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just let the cat see her and she will deal with willow,when my cat saw our black lab she looked,stormed out,couple of hours came back upstairs in to flat and alfie was sitting at the stair gate looking at the cat,as the cat walked passed him she swiped him across the nose and from that moment they got on really well,miss both off them as cat is the evil ex and had to rehome alfie :(
That's the plan. SWMBO will come in and get the cat when we get home and I'll bring Willow in. Then they can fight it out :y
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Well, Willow is home and settled in her crate :y Apart from a little poop before we even got out of their estate (our fault really, should have given her a bit longer) there were no accidents all the way home :y
I'll try and get some snaps soon but she's good at responding to her name and coming over when called :y Oh, and sits on command most of the time too ;)
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Crate training is a fine thing, in my opinion. Gives the hound a sense of privacy/territory where they can go without disturbance and stuff. Mrs H21 made a cover out of blackout material which covered the crate for Jura at nightime (just like a budgie or parrot) which now that she is almost 4, is paying dividends as she knows when bedtime is and thus adjusts her day to suit ours. That said, she no longer uses the crate and has the run of the house but early rules are now well fixed and understood...
Main thing I learned is that dogs cannot tell the time. They cannot read clocks.
But they do read you and thus, do need regularity. Little things such as daily routine and the order of progression around breakfast, morning piddle, settling for the day, daytime visits, my dinner forst then yours and similar.
You get the gist....
Fine looking dog, BTW. :y
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Very cute. What flavour is she? :y :y
Liquorice from the colour ;D ;D
Nice puppy that.
She has that "i'm going to be a pain in the arse" look in her eyes ;D
Yeah, she does a little ::) TBH, she's coming from some very good friends of ours and has good breeding. The litter of 3 pups are already house trained at 7 weeks, although there's still the odd accident, and starting to obey simple commands. Willow responds to her name 99% of the time already and when we visited again on Sunday she came straight out of the pen and over to me :y
Just got to let the cat stamp her authority on the pup as soon as we get her home and things should be OK :y
She looks lovely Paul, hope you have many happy years together, ours is getting on a bit now.......... :( :(
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Mike ......... You confuddled me for a minute then! ::) ::)
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Mike ......... You confuddled me for a minute then! ::) ::)
Had a slight problem with photobucket...... ::) :-[ :D :D
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Here's a little snap of her today :y
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I'm a pooped puppy! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7240767924/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
Had a good night really considering it was the first night away from mum :y Perhaps it was slightly easier because her siblings left Thursday/Friday :-\ No poops all night and only a couple of little wees. She didn't even make any noise until about 6am. I waited until she'd gone quiet again before I came in and let her out into the garden to relieve herself :y Then she had her breakfast, went out again for 15 minutes or so and then settled down nicely :y
H21, the friends she came from recommended crate training very highly (she's a Veterinary Nurse) and wished they'd done it with all of theirs instead of just the last one, Pimms, who is Willow's mummy and still loves her little safe haven :y
She will, undoubtedly, have a very busy week this week and be very popular ::) The cat has already stamped her authority and given her a couple of swipes on the nose but is currently sulking under our bed ::) Although she did come out from there for a nice cuddle all night so I can't see there being too much trouble... She might sulk for a few days, which is what she normally does if we have dogs visiting, but will soon be out teasing Willow with her freedom I'm sure ::)
Been doing some basic training this morning in short sessions (never too early to learn!) and have already shown our potential and natural instinct to retrieve when we were playing :y She's fiercely loyal already though and doesn't stray far from our sides when in the garden. Can even move away from her and she'll follow and sit next to me again :y Looks like training might be easier than expected :y
Mike, that's a lovely picture! I'm hoping that I'll be posting something similar in the next few weeks with the 2 of our little girls curled up together :y
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Shouldn't have shown MrsGK this topic. Going to end up coming home to a house full of woofers...
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Shouldn't have shown MrsGK this topic. Going to end up coming home to a house full of woofers...
SWMBO isn't particularly a doggie person and wasn't overly excited by the idea. It was going to be my dog and I had to do the related things like walking, feeding, training and most importantly clearing up after... Until they met last weekend :-X ::) :y
I've got to admit though, I think we are going to be very lucky. She comes from very good lines (we have a 5 generation pedigree "Family Tree") and it contains an awful lot of Field Trial Champions :y She should be fairly responsive and easy to train :y
I know some friends down the road who got a Poodle pup last year and she was a complete nightmare for them ::)
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And another little snap :y
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I like my bottle skinny! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7241461876/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
I'm still amazed at her natural instincts for loyalty and retrieving... She's only 81/2 weeks old and is amazingly good! :y
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Aah pup pup. :)
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And another little snap :y
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I like my bottle skinny! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7241461876/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
I'm still amazed at her natural instincts for loyalty and retrieving... She's only 81/2 weeks old and is amazingly good! :y
These wee beasties are born half trained remember.... :y
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Aah pup pup. :)
Of course, you do have the slight advantage of having seen her "In the Flesh Fur" ;)And another little snap :y
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8152/7241461876_e0df786af8.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7241461876/)
I like my bottle skinny! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7241461876/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
I'm still amazed at her natural instincts for loyalty and retrieving... She's only 81/2 weeks old and is amazingly good! :y
These wee beasties are born half trained remember.... :y
Indeed, but it's still impressive :y
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When we collected her.
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Wheres the rest of them?
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First bathtime.
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Needing a hug.
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Yeah, wonderfully balls of fluff. Into everything, great to watch ;D
Although I must say how incredible the Mum was. So attentive. :y
Stop it now. H wants one. ;D
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I bet you've enjoyed that little trip down memory lane with Jura :y
Yeah, wonderfully balls of fluff. Into everything, great to watch ;D
Although I must say how incredible the Mum was. So attentive. :y
Stop it now. H wants one. ;D
At least you know they're all gone from this litter ;)
The mum was very attentive, even more so this last weekend when it was one to one. We are looking forward to finding out if they recognise each other when they next meet
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Autumn last year when doing the coastal path.
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Who you looking at ;D
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Puppy dog eyes ....swmbo looks like that when we go shopping ;D
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Another few snaps from today. It shows how quickly she's growing!
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7319894960/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8001/7319895604_33a81632a7.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7319895604/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7319895604/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7319934086_4cc372b0e0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7319934086/)
Sleepy Pup! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961476@N08/7319934086/) by lazydocker (http://www.flickr.com/people/24961476@N08/), on Flickr
She's really settled in now and is doing really well. Last night was the first night she didn't wee in her crate although we didn't go to bed until nearly 2 so that may have some impact on it ::)
Today she has had the freedom to come in and out of her crate all she likes and has been really good with no accidents :y
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Aah. Shes a real sweety. :)