Author Topic: why can't they be like that ALL the time ? (Read 7004 times)

RUSTYME · « **on:** November 15, 2009, 04:22:37 pm »

they look so cute ..like butter wouldn't melt....but for all their bad moments ....ones like this make up for them all ......

cheers

Russ

HappyHippy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2009, 04:29:12 pm »

They all look sooooo well behaved

And very clean - Boris (being white) is just constantly mucky with all the 'weather' we've been getting (and the fact that he'll rub himself in smelly stuff whenever he gets the chance - the smellier the better in his eyes

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RUSTYME · « **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2009, 04:34:57 pm »

most of the time they are very well behaved....till someone comes ....then it is WW111 ...lol.
They are mostly clean too , they play in the river down the land, so do the cleaning for me ....today though the spaniels are covered....but they are still lovely ...little sods...

cheers

Russ

doganjo · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2009, 06:34:01 pm »

Didn't realise you had so many dogs, Russ. They look in super condition. Do you or did you ever work any of them? What lines is your Weim from - Gunalt (Patsy Hollings), Sireva (Gill Averis), Greyfurs (Marion McAngus), Stormdancer (Sandra Rowbury) - I know most of them.

RUSTYME · « **Reply #4 on:** November 15, 2009, 07:30:05 pm »

yes ... just the four now , since we lost Ghillie the spaniels mum . The three spaniel boys from left to right are Al , Arnie and Steve and then Millie the Weim....The spaniels are from the Cruicksbrae line of field trial champions and working dogs . Ghillie , was a first class working dog . She could mark 5 kills and then go an collect each , one by one....and she could smell a pheasant or rabbit from miles off.....But out of the boys , only Steve is a working dog . He is totally fearless and would work till he dropped . Nothing will stop him going through the trash ....I was offered £2000 for him by someone who had seen him working ...that was cash in the hand on the spot ...not just a maybe...but he is one of my boys ... not for sale at any price... the other two would have been good at working or field trials , but it just isn't my thing as they say . My nephew is the one into all that . He trained Steve in fact, but mainly Steve did what he did anyway

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Ghillie = Cruicksbrae Amethyst . She was from Maesydderwen Arrow of Cruicksbrae and Cruicksbrae Amber, and had Rytex Rod and Badgercourt in her pedigree. Her breederwas a Mr J H Barron.
Now Millie is a different kettle of fish altogether. She can walk past a rabbit and not even know it's just 3 feet from her, however if she gets the whiff of a fox or a hedgehog...she goes ballistic !! However she has caught quite a few bunnies and dozens of moles ?? She has big problems with hormones though , thats why I could never breed from her . She is almost permanently in season . We cope with it now , and even she knows when she is off her tree , and looks to me for cuddles and talking till she comes back to earth.
Her line is from Ireland on one side, although she was born in Wales. There was Gunalt in her line somewhere though I think , but I can't dig her pedigree out at the moment . I must dig their paperwork out again ...although they are all just my dogs and the paperwork doesn't mean that much too me ..( but it would if I were selling pups though !! lol )

cheers

Russ

doganjo · « **Reply #5 on:** November 15, 2009, 07:47:40 pm »

Thanks Russ - that's really interesting. I don't know a lot about working springers to be honest - except that I was offered a lot of money to use Allez on one because of his bobtail. I'm not into Weims - just know a lot of folk in HPR's. I saw a smashing dog at Gundog Breeds of Scotland Show yesterday - a rough haired Slovak (Slovakian Rough Haired Pointer). They are a mix of Weim, German Wirehair, and Cesky Fousak. I'll bet that could do a good days work! The girl handling it said she has had GWP and Weims and never had such a good natured dog as these.

RUSTYME · « **Reply #6 on:** November 15, 2009, 08:05:40 pm »

My nephew has been offered a Hungarian Vizsla ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Vizsla) dog pup 17 weeks old, by his cousin . Not sure if he is having it yet as he has 4 or 5 dogs already , a Doberman, an Italian whippet , a whippet cross Greyhound lurcher , and a huge something or other lurcher . There maybe another one , but I can't remember for sure...

He also has a Goshawk and two ferrets . He did have a sparrowhawk that he trained from a chick . But there was a terrible mishap and the ferrets got out and killed it . Poor Mark was devastated by that . Then there is Jack the jackdaw , who now lives some of the time in the kids ex jail . And I thought my place was a mad house....

cheers

Russ

RUSTYME · « **Reply #7 on:** November 15, 2009, 08:26:05 pm »

some of Mark's (my nephew) dogs along with Leanne in her favourite place...

I love that picture of Leanne...she breaks my heart ...

in with the dogs as well, is little Joe ...he is my nieces little boy , and is just about to throw a wobbly by the looks of things...he is a lovely little fellow too ....

cheers

Russ

doganjo · « **Reply #8 on:** November 15, 2009, 08:30:29 pm »

Aww aren't they just super pictures. I love seeing happy families like that. Doesn't it give you such a lot of hope for the future, Russ?

I may have posted this before but I think this is such a cute photo of my youngest grandchild, Katie, with 'Mine poppies' as she says

RUSTYME · « **Reply #9 on:** November 15, 2009, 08:41:47 pm »

lol... little Katie looks lovely there .....Leanne say 'My' can do this or 'My' can do so and so , (in her little Welsh accent) , instead of 'I can' but it is just so cute ...no body minds at all ...
And it is because of them, that I am so aware of what is going on , and determined to do as much as I can to stop it , or at least make things good for the little ones . It will ultimately make little difference to me as I will pop me clogs and miss most of the crap ....but the kids need something better than the powers that be (Monsanto et al ) are setting up for them .

cheers

Russ