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What a lovely surprise, and a GSD puppy is lovely.
We have three hounds, a female Hungarian Vizsla, long been spayed, we got her at 14 months old, she'd had a hard time and been bullied, been with us probably 8 or more years now and getting a little grey, but she's in fine health but never lost her nervous disposition.
About 5 years ago we thought we'd get the Viz a companion and SWMBO spotted this delightful little 6 month old red cocker spaniel female on pre loved, she'd been rehomed twice before and she proved a right handful, but she's a delight of a dog, has the heart of a lion is completely unruly when out sniffing out stuff to chase...she should have been a sniffer dog really because she can root out anything...has the appetite of a Labrador can fall asleep at the drop of a hat and could snore for England.
We tentatively decided to mate her and SWMBO found a lady with an all black Cocker male, and sure enough they had pups, the result ....warning do not have pups and think its easy because it was a nightmare, Ruby needed a caesarian and within 4 hours was back home with us feeding and nurturing her babies and not allowed any painkiller, what a little trooper...but the pups were a delight, 6 born, one died within days and is buried under our magnolia tree the one who failed to arrive prompting the caeser, the other were 4perfect little cocker females all black all as naughty escape artists as their mother, and George, and that's when it became apparent that somewhere in Ruby's background is another strain or two of dog.
Cos George started life as a beige slug, and very soon started to get much bigger than his siblings, he developed freckles on his snout (springer spaniel) and a Mohican which sadly grew out, really long cocker/springer ears and the head of a golden retriever and he's long haired gold in colour and twice the size of his mum and larger than most male springers.
His overall mum my very own SWMBO fell in love with him upon seeing the little slug for the first time and yes he stayed with us, we were hoping to keep one of the female pups too but 4 dogs, three of which being nut case spaniels was just too much, so all the black females were homed...Mary was the last to go and one day they both came back in soaking wet, about 10 weeks old at this point, Mary the little escape artist had found a way out of our escape proof :-) garden and into next door via their fish pond and returned the same way, an escape artist extraordinaire.
One pup obviously went to live with her father who she bosses about something rotten, SWMBO has visited since and Rosie goes absolutely bonkers when she sees SWMBO and her brother, and George and her have a whale of a time rushing about.
So there was are, we have a Viz knocking on 10 who's completely clueless but very loyal and will not even take a treat off someone she does not know, a cocker hooligan female now spayed who misleadingly looks like butter wouldn't melt and everyone she meets falls in love with her, of course she makes a fuss of them too but she's really checking out if they happen to have a spare ham sandwich knocking about before resuming the rabbit hunt.
And then we have George, who will be 3 in July, he's a big galoot, and races round like his tail is on fire, but he's lovely natured like his mum, has been crying gently because SWMBO who was the very first sight when he opened his eyes (and who he's devoted to) was at the gym, and as i type this has just returned and the dogs are going bonkers now.
So yes, the house is a kennel, we (no i lie) SWMBO vacuums up enough dog hair to fill a mattress every week, and she loves her life in doggie world.
They all get fed on Millies Wolfheart dry food which we'd recommend to anyone, and they seem very happy dogs all in, as are we.
Edited by gordonbennet on 15/02/2019 at 18:59
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