JRG Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Banks arrived here yesterday. He is a very dark liver English Cocker Spaniel of the working type and is nine week old. Welcome to the Springer world little man! Sorry, photos not great - he moves so fast! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal House Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Congrats on your new pup, what a sweet little face he has.., love his name too! (you might want to ask @Troy to move this out of 'Puppy Problems' into one of the others, unless you are predicting trouble already. ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazm Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Welcome little fella. What a cutie pie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tassie Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 What a sweetie. Lots of fun ahead I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgrubber Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 15 hours ago, Animal House said: Congrats on your new pup, what a sweet little face he has.., love his name too! (you might want to ask @Troy to move this out of 'Puppy Problems' into one of the others, unless you are predicting trouble already. ) Or ask to have "problems" dropped and make it just "Puppies". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PANDI-GIRL Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Puppy chat is a lot more positive than puppy problems, I like it @JRG what has cute little Banks been up to lately , not much mischief for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRG Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 On 5/14/2019 at 2:51 PM, PANDI-GIRL said: what has cute little Banks been up to lately , not much mischief for you! Banks is great, thank you. He is a really good baby, has never soiled his bedtime pen and is never noisy. He has been to two Puppy Classes and, I am ashamed to say is not the best! loves a game of "chase" and has perfected the art of rolling and standing up again in one movement (while on the run)! Although he hasn't completed the Puppy classes he is off to boarding school next week to begin his training to be a proper gundog. So far all he has learnt towards that career is to collect his dumb-bell and bring it back - which he does with great gusto!! and stay reasonably close when we go for a walk across the paddock. I will keep you posted on his progress 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PANDI-GIRL Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 He is a beauty, Will he be learning serious gun dog training in boarding school, how long does this take? Your house will feel empty without him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRG Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 Yes, this is serious Gundog stuff. Usually takes at least 6 months for the (very) basic stuff, but Banks is destined for offical Field Trials, so I do not expect him back for many months! Yes I will miss him, but since I got him as a potential stud dog, he has a lot of growing up to do before I can use him. i have made a good deal with a friend, he gets to trial him, I get to use him over my (working) Cocker girl, and we both, eventually, get a well trained Gundog. in the meantime I have plenty of (working) springers to keep me busy! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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