Kismet
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she's been through a tough life.
She was whelped a year ago and left to roam in a backyard for 6 months, then bought by a city couple with 3 cats, big hearts, and ...er...good intentions. They sold her because she wants to kill their cats. She'll be a year old in a few days. She is slim. On the AKC papers, her sire is listed as "_______ Drahthaar's ____," so maybe both sire and dam are DD. (?)
Dunno if I can bring her breeding out, and tap into that DNA hunter that's there. She's a bit skittish, and I think the last two days were the first times she'd ever been let loose to just cavort in a field with another REAL hunting dog. Mick is a most congenial host, like most Springer Spaniels and tolerated her silliness. It was a joy to see Tinker bounce, range out, come back, bounce some more, and even though we've got 4 inches of crusty snow on the ground, she was being stopped and startled by scents like she'd never smelled them before.
She is intimidated by being in the car, and really...kind of seems like the city people, who were nice, just never worked on the blank spots in her background. I have an open invitation to return her (they said), but I'm going to do my best to let her grow into her potential and become the Versatile Hunting dog her breeding was meant to allow her to be. Doesn't appear to have had any commands rigorously enforced before. We're working on it.
The two dogs just had a great running, roaring, growling mock fight out in the yard. Mick is 10 or 11; what a champ he is with puppies.
Wish us luck.
(picture won't load tonight. I'll try again tomorrow. )
She was whelped a year ago and left to roam in a backyard for 6 months, then bought by a city couple with 3 cats, big hearts, and ...er...good intentions. They sold her because she wants to kill their cats. She'll be a year old in a few days. She is slim. On the AKC papers, her sire is listed as "_______ Drahthaar's ____," so maybe both sire and dam are DD. (?)
Dunno if I can bring her breeding out, and tap into that DNA hunter that's there. She's a bit skittish, and I think the last two days were the first times she'd ever been let loose to just cavort in a field with another REAL hunting dog. Mick is a most congenial host, like most Springer Spaniels and tolerated her silliness. It was a joy to see Tinker bounce, range out, come back, bounce some more, and even though we've got 4 inches of crusty snow on the ground, she was being stopped and startled by scents like she'd never smelled them before.
She is intimidated by being in the car, and really...kind of seems like the city people, who were nice, just never worked on the blank spots in her background. I have an open invitation to return her (they said), but I'm going to do my best to let her grow into her potential and become the Versatile Hunting dog her breeding was meant to allow her to be. Doesn't appear to have had any commands rigorously enforced before. We're working on it.
The two dogs just had a great running, roaring, growling mock fight out in the yard. Mick is 10 or 11; what a champ he is with puppies.
Wish us luck.
(picture won't load tonight. I'll try again tomorrow. )
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