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Cap and Sean I do hope your pains ease soon.

I looked up a Silver buff cocker spaniel, DD, and they are gorgeous. American cocker spaniels look quite different to the ones we have here.

It's warmed back up down here in NZ but it's been raining on and off (more on than off) for ages and that pattern is set to continue. The humidity is driving me nuts!

I had to move my dove chicks. Where the parents had built the nest was way too small for two rapidly growing babies so I've hung up a big basket and everyone made the transition just fine.

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And I got my first ever fairy egg from my chickens. It's so teeny and cute. I must crack it open with the kids and see what's inside.

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what a neat egg Jae.

I mainly bred red cockers, buff, black and had some very nearly orange colored. I think the Cavalier King Charles spaniels are the closest to Cockers. Much smaller, much less coat (no trimming involved) and undocked tails. Great personalities but cost a fortune and the best come from Ireland.

I think they tend to have coronary issues but it can be detected early in life.
 
I showed during the 80s into the 90s. Never had a handler....I did all the raising, training, grooming and handling by my little lonesome. It was particularly hard to finish Flatties. Back then we’d often load up, drive for hours, unload and prep the dogs, only to find that there weren’t enough others for a major. <sigh>

I miss the friendships, studying upcoming shows to see who was judging and if they’d liked your dogs before. Highest complement Rueben ever received was from a judge named Dr. Niven or McNiven....forget now. Anyway he awarded Rueben his first major and as we posed for our photo he said that RJ was the first Flatcoat he’d seen in months who looked like he could do his job out in the field, full on, all day long on Saturday and show in conformation all day the next day. Yep, and he often did! More than one judge, during the examination, asked what was wrong with his tail, and 90% of the time I’d get a big grin and a nod when I replied, “Cockleburs.”

What I really enjoyed were the SKC shows....dogs the AKC did not or would not recognize. We met the owners of the dog(s) who were in that movie Turner and Hootch, I think it was. Also got to see and fall in love with Large Muensterlanders, and that’s where I got my Nova Scotia Duck Trolling Retriever, for however short that relationship was. What a brickbrain! So those shows had AKC registered dogs and lots of others. Rueben won his SKC championship in Mississippi.

Would I go back into it if I was in better physical condition? Only obedience, not conformation. I found I much preferred the dog competing against himself. I’d try agility, but I have a few things going against me....the first is obvious - I couldn’t run that course now if Auld Cooty was on my tail, and the second is my dog. Good grief, I’d be 10 years older and in a nursing home watching it on TV in the time it would take Fiona to amble along and get through the whole thing,
 
Yours too Ron? I hate CVS but at least they kept the staff that was there for years - knock on wood. YES CVS wants to conquer the world. When I get their PITA recorded phone messages I always talk back in BAD language. Then I always chose the number for speak to pharmacy staff.

I hear they are taking over or hoping to do so I think , one or more other pharmacy chains if the government will allow it. Target pharmacy ran very smoothly without CVS hampering them.
 
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I showed during the 80s into the 90s. Never had a handler....I did all the raising, training, grooming and handling by my little lonesome. It was particularly hard to finish Flatties. Back then we’d often load up, drive for hours, unload and prep the dogs, only to find that there weren’t enough others for a major. <sigh>

I miss the friendships, studying upcoming shows to see who was judging and if they’d liked your dogs before. Highest complement Rueben ever received was from a judge named Dr. Niven or McNiven....forget now. Anyway he awarded Rueben his first major and as we posed for our photo he said that RJ was the first Flatcoat he’d seen in months who looked like he could do his job out in the field, full on, all day long on Saturday and show in conformation all day the next day. Yep, and he often did! More than one judge, during the examination, asked what was wrong with his tail, and 90% of the time I’d get a big grin and a nod when I replied, “Cockleburs.”

What I really enjoyed were the SKC shows....dogs the AKC did not or would not recognize. We met the owners of the dog(s) who were in that movie Turner and Hootch, I think it was. Also got to see and fall in love with Large Muensterlanders, and that’s where I got my Nova Scotia Duck Trolling Retriever, for however short that relationship was. What a brickbrain! So those shows had AKC registered dogs and lots of others. Rueben won his SKC championship in Mississippi.

Would I go back into it if I was in better physical condition? Only obedience, not conformation. I found I much preferred the dog competing against himself. I’d try agility, but I have a few things going against me....the first is obvious - I couldn’t run that course now if Auld Cooty was on my tail, and the second is my dog. Good grief, I’d be 10 years older and in a nursing home watching it on TV in the time it would take Fiona to amble along and get through the whole thing,
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there is a video of a mastiff doing the course I will have to find. so funny. and danes doing it.

and I love that you worked him too. if/when I look for a breeder for my next dog, I’m going to look for one that does something in addition to conformation. whether that’s working in the field all day or obedience or SOMETHING. I want to try agility, nosework and/or tracking, dock diving (maybe, kinda chaotic for my tastes) and possibly obedience or rally. Considered flyball but also too chaotic imo. And of course trick training and possibly skijoring/bikejoring. Might try the joring with DB and FSIL’s dogs instead. Next dog might be too small. Considering Golden, Lab, Aussie, Samoyed, Scotch Collie/OTSC (old time scotch collie)/OTFC (old time farm collie) or English Shepherd. Or Berger Blanc Suisse. But next dog is a longgggggggg ways off.
 

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