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Hi everyone, we are rather impatiently waiting for our puppy (a GSP) to arrive ... only 14 days to go.

I am trying to work out from the DogsWest schedule if there is anything on this weekend that we can go and watch. :confused: I *think* there is a retrieving event on, but I don't think it is at Dogs West, and I can't work out where it is happening. We're very interesting in going to watch. Can anyone give me any details about it? Thanks :)

Feebeez - if you want to see some GSPs doing something different, come and have a look at the WA Sleddog Sports Assoc race in Gnangara on the 26th/27th May. If you google WASSA you will see details closer to the date.

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Hi everyone, we are rather impatiently waiting for our puppy (a GSP) to arrive ... only 14 days to go.

I am trying to work out from the DogsWest schedule if there is anything on this weekend that we can go and watch. :confused: I *think* there is a retrieving event on, but I don't think it is at Dogs West, and I can't work out where it is happening. We're very interesting in going to watch. Can anyone give me any details about it? Thanks :)

Feebeez - if you want to see some GSPs doing something different, come and have a look at the WA Sleddog Sports Assoc race in Gnangara on the 26th/27th May. If you google WASSA you will see details closer to the date.

Hi Tubmleweed, we do intend coming to see some sledding, just haven't managed to get there yet (the kids will keep getting birthday invitations that clash!) If you are into sledding then you would know Coco's Mum & Dad (Axel and Coda, owned by Michelle)

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Uh-oh bad Jive! :laugh:

Coco is gorgeous Feebeez (Pheobe was the name of one of my groomers GSPs and she is the same colour as Coco) :D

That is a funny coincidence! (I am actually a Fiona, Feebee came about as a nickname when I worked with anohter Fiona. We became FeeA and FeeB)

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Hi Feebeez - is that one of Koda and Axle's puppies? I know them from dog sledding and they are beautiful dogs! Enjoy your new pup :thumbsup:

She sure is! LOL ... I should have read all of the posts before I started replying.

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Feebeez, Coco is lovely!

Anyone feeling puppy clucky and wants a cure? We have entered the eating everything (including me...) stage :rofl:

So far we have lost one charger cord (which was charging my phone at the time and she barely had time to even grab it! And unfortunately she is the first puppy to have decided that the old rocking horse was edible :( Course Mum came and told me when I was clipping a horse that she had started chewing it, I asked if she had moved it and was told no but she would go and do so soon... Fast forward to me finishing clipping the horse and we now have a very nice deglove of a hind leg. I removed said rocking pony from said puppy's reach!

Oh dear! How old is your bundle of terror?

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Coco is gorgeous Feebeez (Pheobe was the name of one of my groomers GSPs and she is the same colour as Coco) :D

That is a funny coincidence! (I am actually a Fiona, Feebee came about as a nickname when I worked with anohter Fiona. We became FeeA and FeeB)

Ha ha, Fiona was my groomers best buddy, I used to ride her horse :D

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OK since everyone is being so quiet on here I thought I would start a discussion :rofl:

What would you do in following situation...

I need to transport 3 dogs to a show on the weekend, two adults who usually sit on the back seat and a puppy who at the moment travels in a crate (which is currently set up on the back seat :o ) Car is a 4WD but I also need to take 2 other crates and the rest of the showing gear with me. The drive takes just under an hour.

Options are:

1) Keep crate on back seat and try and set up the very back so the adult dogs can sit there on top of the other crates and gear.

2) See if crate for puppy can fit into the back on top of the other crates and have adult dogs on the back seat - in which case the pup won't be visible to the human passengers

3) As for 2 but have the back seats folded down - which could cause a problem with securing gear.

3) Use dog trailer and put adult dogs in there

4) Use dog trailer and put crates and other gear in there with the dogs riding in the car

5) Have all three dogs on the back seat with puppy out of the crate

6) Have adult dogs on the back seat and puppy on the front seat in the passengers lap :lol:

So, which would you choose and why?

It wouldn't have been an issue except Banjo is now coming down as well to do some jumping training :rofl:

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OK since everyone is being so quiet on here I thought I would start a discussion :rofl:

What would you do in following situation...

I need to transport 3 dogs to a show on the weekend, two adults who usually sit on the back seat and a puppy who at the moment travels in a crate (which is currently set up on the back seat :o ) Car is a 4WD but I also need to take 2 other crates and the rest of the showing gear with me. The drive takes just under an hour.

Options are:

1) Keep crate on back seat and try and set up the very back so the adult dogs can sit there on top of the other crates and gear.

2) See if crate for puppy can fit into the back on top of the other crates and have adult dogs on the back seat - in which case the pup won't be visible to the human passengers

3) As for 2 but have the back seats folded down - which could cause a problem with securing gear.

3) Use dog trailer and put adult dogs in there

4) Use dog trailer and put crates and other gear in there with the dogs riding in the car

5) Have all three dogs on the back seat with puppy out of the crate

6) Have adult dogs on the back seat and puppy on the front seat in the passengers lap :lol:

So, which would you choose and why?

It wouldn't have been an issue except Banjo is now coming down as well to do some jumping training :rofl:

That sounds complex! :eek: Could the extra gear go in the footwells of the back seats with the (collapsed) crates on their edges, leaning up against the front seats?

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I'd stay home M, sounds far too complicated ;)

How's the baby going?? I got to snuggle a whole nest of kelpie pups on Saturday.... 3 week olds at the trials we went to over at Arthur River. What a top day!!

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Trailer for crap & car for dogs .

That is what i do

I take 2/3 dogs in car & tow a 6 berth trailer :rofl:

I have just returned from NSW showing

There was no royal repeat for my boy but his brother won so all happy there

We won RUBISS at The Setter show under a US gundog specialist .

And i collected the award for Australian Show Gordon of the year awarded at the shows so a very happy time

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I'd stay home M, sounds far too complicated ;)

How's the baby going?? I got to snuggle a whole nest of kelpie pups on Saturday.... 3 week olds at the trials we went to over at Arthur River. What a top day!!

You visited the retrieving trials? I went the past 2 years but didn't go this year laugh.gif Why were there kelpie pups at a gundog affair? :p

mirawee, I'd have all dogs, pup included, harnessed on the backseat and all crates folded away safely in the back!

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Have some Swedish toller breeders staying with me at the moment - they have had a hand in every one of my kids - so lovely to hear about grandparents, GG parents and even further back. I don't want them to go home.

Was also lucky enough to have coffee with Steve Hooker and to actually get to hold his Olympic medal - I felt like a BIG kid biggrin.gif

Cider has just over a week to go - unfortunately nobody has told her she is pregnant - she is still as crazy as ever thumbsup1.gif

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rofl1.gif yes that would explain why laugh.gif Yeah there were retrieving trials over the Easter long weekend in Arthur River. Now that you mention it, a woman at agility who also does herding has mentioned the trials out the same way, before. Just didn't realise they were held about the same time!
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