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Pets & Working Animals => Dogs => Topic started by: doganjo on February 20, 2014, 12:29:27 pm
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Picked her up on Sunday. Travelled home 6 hours on the train - not a squeak from her all the way up, and we were mobbed with people cuddling and admiring her. Grumpy Granda Allez has his nose out of joint. Grannie Freckles puts up with ears and toes being chewed and pulled, Grannie Belle plays with her but scares her with her loud barks
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Ah bless
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Little beauty, Enjoy ! :love:
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Working cocker? How old is she? :)
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Working cocker? How old is she? :)
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO !!!!!!!!!!! :roflanim:
She is a Brittany - a Hunter Pointer Retriever bred for working and show. Champion sire, line bred dam. :excited:
She is ten weeks old, and in two days she now walks on a lead, sits for a treat, and recalls to whistle in my kitchen :eyelashes: ;) Doubt if that will last! :innocent:
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She is gorgeous :love:
I didn't realise you could get Brittanys in blue roan (? is that the colour classification? )
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She looks lovely :thumbsup:
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She looks lovely, until you clarified her breed I wondered if she was a wire haired pointer.
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Working cocker? How old is she? :)
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO !!!!!!!!!!! :roflanim:
She is a Brittany - a Hunter Pointer Retriever bred for working and show. Champion sire, line bred dam. :excited:
She is ten weeks old, and in two days she now walks on a lead, sits for a treat, and recalls to whistle in my kitchen :eyelashes: ;) Doubt if that will last! :innocent:
Oops :innocent: apologies to Missy :)
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She's gorgeous - looking forward to meeting her :)
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She's a little cutie :thumbsup:
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annie you weren't being so cheerful about her this morning ;D ;D ;D
did she eat her breakfast in the end or just carry on playing with it???
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how exciting, how old is she? :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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She's just GORGEOUS :love: :love: :love:
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She is gorgeous :love:
I didn't realise you could get Brittanys in blue roan (? is that the colour classification? )
Not called blue roan - that's a spaniel phrase, these,aren't spaniels
10 colourways in France and the UK (plus sable which is not allowed in the show ring) Mainly Orange and white in the American Brittany, although there are pure French Bred Epagneul Bretons in America too (the French name for the breed) which have the same colours as in France and UK
Epagneul Breton/UK Brittany colours
Orange and white - roan or clear
Liver and white - roan or clear
Black and white - roan or clear
Black Tricolour - roan or clear
Liver tricolour - roan or clear
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Thanks for sorting that for me :thumbsup:
She is a VERY pretty black and white :love: :love: and sounds like a bundle of mischief by bloomers post ;D
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annie you weren't being so cheerful about her this morning ;D ;D ;D
did she eat her breakfast in the end or just carry on playing with it???
She everntually ate it all off the floor where she had left it - after putting the others on a sit stay under threat of no walkies. :roflanim:
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She looks lovely, until you clarified her breed I wondered if she was a wire haired pointer.
Had one of those - no resemblance even at 10 weeks, and very few black and whites in that breed - mostly liver and white. They also have their facial hair quite early.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=puppy+german+wirehaired+pointer&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_4cGU9--KOGI7AbSyIHYAg&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=799 (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=puppy+german+wirehaired+pointer&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_4cGU9--KOGI7AbSyIHYAg&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=799)
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:love:
Just as well you took that empty carrier down "just in case" then.. :innocent:
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Have fun ;D
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Just as well you took that empty carrier down "just in case" then.. :innocent:
Ha ha, that's what my kids said too :-[ But I DID check her over - teeth and jaw correct, head planes parallel, muzzle to skull ratio correct, ear placement, shoulder layback, upper arm length, length of loin, depth of bone, bend of stifle, slope of croup :huff:
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Just as well you took that empty carrier down "just in case" then.. :innocent:
[/quote]Ha ha, that's what my kids said too :-[ But I DID check her over - teeth and jaw correct, head planes parallel, muzzle to skull ratio correct, ear placement, shoulder layback, upper arm length, length of loin, depth of bone, bend of stifle, slope of croup :huff:
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And heart meltingly cute too :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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I'm sure you were very thorough in your assessment - given you want her for showing and know what you're judging you'd not want to be embarrassed to take her out.. but I did sense a slight bias towards hoping for the positive outcome and I'm very pleased you got it.
As for me, lacking all conformational knowledge of the breed requirements, I just think she's cute and will look forward to judging her solely on the criteria of cuddleability whenever I am lucky enough to meet her.. I also think she'll pass with flying colours against my very high standards ;) but if there is a point in her education where puppycuddling would be counterproductive to her manners, best get me in there first or teach her a cuddle command cos I know I won't be able to help myself :)
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She's lovely :love: :love: :love:
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Cuddleability was the prime criteria. :excited:
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Beautiful dog! I fell in love with these at Crufts! I like that the colour names are logical!
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Beautiful dog! I fell in love with these at Crufts! I like that the colour names are logical!
We may have passed each other then - been there almost every year since they came into the UK in 1980's; Judged them in 2007 - what year were you there?