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Re: Good working/family dog

Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:48 am

Good post Steve - really like the contrast you have shown there. Sounds like you've got excellent working pets!!! :thup:

Re: Good working/family dog

Sun Feb 10, 2013 11:57 am

Springer all day long!!!!!!!

I mirror below they are completely daft and great to train and loves, LOVES the kids and rest of family, mine certainly does crazy things...

Do buy one though from a working bread I got mine from West Lancs Gun Dogs, and not looked back. HArd work but great fun.. :)



Keef wrote:Springer Spaniel provided it came from working stock and not from show breeders.

Very good with kids, will work and doesn't have the weight problems that Labs can have. Also if you get a bitch they're not too large for house and car.

The only problems you might have are that they can be daft as a brush and don't ever really grow up.

Other dogs from the parents of the one I had did such things as:

Walk up and down a piano keyboard at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Chase rabbits by jumping out of a Land Rover window when the car was doing 30mph.

Mine chewed and dug through a plaster board wall to get to me when she was shut in the kitchen but she was only a pup then.

If she got fed up with kids she'd lick their faces as she knew they didn't like it!

She also liked wade or jump in water. Not clean water it had to be muddy or stagnant.

Re: Good working/family dog

Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:57 pm

We have a lab springer cross I'm sure the modem name is a labradinger but she's a mongrel to us.
And I have to say she is the best dog I have ever had best if both worlds but probably the worse of both too!

Re: Good working/family dog

Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:00 pm

This thread has awakened the desire to have another Springer. They are such amazing dogs, mad as a box of frogs but so friendly. It's been. Nearly three years since my Springer went and I still miss her.

Re: Good working/family dog

Thu May 09, 2013 4:43 pm

Finally sorted the dog out,
Our friend bought two springers when his mother past away well low and behold the lady is ready to drop, both dogs come working lines so in a month or two our puppie will be here
best bit is all its costing us is the vet fees for nocs and chip right result

Re: Good working/family dog

Thu May 09, 2013 5:11 pm

Excellent, I hope you enjoy your new dog! :thup:

Re: Good working/family dog

Thu May 09, 2013 8:02 pm

Brilliant :thup:

Re: Good working/family dog

Thu May 09, 2013 11:00 pm

Remember Labs are born half trained :thup: Springers die half trained :thdn:

Re: Good working/family dog

Fri May 10, 2013 5:57 am

mathspete wrote:Remember Labs are born half trained :thup: Springers die half trained :thdn:

I like that - never heard it before!! :thup: :grin:

Re: Good working/family dog

Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:23 pm

Well if anyones looking for a liver and white Springer in the SW I've got a pile-o-pups running round/over/under me as I write this from working parents!

First litter we've ever had, fun but lively woukd be a good description! :grin:

T

Re: Good working/family dog

Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:44 pm

It guts me to write this sadly the litter was 7 strong and only 3 managed to stay in this world, sadly our puppie was 1 that died so the search continues

Re: Good working/family dog

Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:03 pm

Adam-that is shit news. I might let my bitch (black lab) have another litter if you are interested let me know via PM. I will send you copies of pedigree. If you can wait, I would give you a dog for the cost of overheads. Genuine people deserve a good dog :thup:

Sorry for your loss.

Re: Good working/family dog

Wed May 16, 2018 7:30 am

Hey,

I want to buy a dog and my family also wants a pet, So Do you know a breed that's known for being gentle and well-behaved..??
So please suggest me which breed should I buy????

Re: Good working/family dog

Wed May 16, 2018 9:38 am

daiveel19 wrote:Hey,

I want to buy a dog and my family also wants a pet, So Do you know a breed that's known for being gentle and well-behaved..??
So please suggest me which breed should I buy????

Has to be a black labrador .

PS Welcome to the Forum .................John

Re: Good working/family dog

Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:55 am

Hi black labrador i got mine when she was 14 months old free in scot ads she came with her papers she lived on a farm but had never been near a gun but she did hear gas guns going off when i first took her out to see if she would react to the gun she did not bother one bit the first time i took sky shooting she stopped at a bunch of nettles her tail went straight and still she looked back at me so i told her to get it she flushed a rabbit she did not run or move so i shot it around 30 yards then told her to fetch it she did and came straight back with it but she would not let it go it tore in half :die: after that she would retrieve any thing i shot and give me it no problem she was great with kids sadly she died at 14 1/2 years old a couple of years ago i still think of her a lot as we had some great times
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