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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ack! I just read this Eggie! Hope all goes well with your dear baby, Oscar! I'll be watching and Herc and I will be sending prayers and hugs all goes well and is well.

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a cute picture! I love it. I was up at my mom's this past weekend, which means a few Ole pictures :-) I took a few when he was first waking up and yawning a lot...









Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh! One more...We love each other :-)



Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, what a scene stealer. I think the last one is good enough to enter in some photo contest. It's a perfect shot!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 9:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep, the last one is calendar material.

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kaili...GORGEOUS!! Definitely, photo contest!! Wow!

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He was stepping on my snowshoe that moment- I had stopped and was waiting for my mom to get up the hill. He likes to put his paw on feet. My mom and stepdad got married in the field near where we are in that photo and Ole had his paw on my mom's foot throughout the ceremony. Anyway, my mom wanted to take a picture on top of the hill and I stopped to wait- he came up and stepped on my feet and I was actually bending over to pet him for a few seconds before getting his foot off mine. I didn't want his paw to get stuck in the snowshoe. I don't know how it could have. He has big feet. :-) My mom had great timing with the camera.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your mom has good looking kids; two and four footed..

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

Thanks  While we were walking we were talking and I said how I get annoying when people make comments stereotyping only kids (because I am one). She told me to just say I’m not one since I grew up so close to my cousins. I laughed and said I could tell people I had a sister named Hannah, but she died (Hannah was our German Shepherd that my mom had to have put to sleep last year, err¡Kin Oct. 2003), and a brother named Ole. She liked that since her pets are her babies.


Scootersmom
Member

08-10-2002

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 5:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Aww Kaili. My pets are my babies too! I love your pics. That last one is just awesome!

Hey ya Eggie? Any news on Oscar yet? :-)

Jasper
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Just wanted to share with you a picture of my dear boy Jasper. It was one of our last pics of him. You know what it's like you take the film in and more than half of it is of your pets!

Jasper
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On a happier note, though I have not had a cry free day as of yet, but I did get some good news from a breeder today. We are getting a new puppy! He was born on Xmas day and dh and I have been referring to him as Oscar for the last couple of weeks even though we weren't sure if we would get one or what sex it would be. We are going for an interview in a couple of weeks to meet the pups and the mom and pass inspection. I am so looking forward to it. We had been trolling the Humane Society sites as well to no avail so decided to go with the purebred that we really really wanted, a Bernese Mountain dog. I think Jasper would be happy for us and I think it is just what I need. Wish me luck.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm SURE Jasper would approve of a Bernese.. very good choice, Jasper!!

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jasper, that is fantastic news!! What a sweet pic of Jasper!!

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That picture's cute- I love how his little paw is just sitting there :-) Bernese Mountain dogs are beautiful and so sweet too! Good luck with that.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 9:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just posting a cute website with an "essay" called The Dog Rules. Kinda cute!

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 12:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kaili, I loved your pictures!!

Jasper, I am so sorry for your loss. I actually didn't realize that you had lost your sweet boy recently. I went back into the archives to read about your loss. I have to say, I loved your post about hearing the song that reminded you of Jasper and it being by a group called Hipjoints. I am a believer in the scenario you had described and it was a gift from Jasper. How sweet!

I look forward to hearing more news about your new pup to be!

And Scoots, here's an update on Oscar. His surgery is scheduled for January 13th and I'll be sure to let y'all know the outcome. Thanks for remembering and asking. Just tonight I was holding him like a little baby and spying the two nodules...they do look like they've gotten bigger but I could be wrong or overly worried. Oscar is still the same little rascal and still snores when he goes to sleep...lol!


Scootersmom
Member

08-10-2002

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 8:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jasper, I wanted to say I love the pic of Jasper...so hard to lose a member of your family. But, gotta say...it was hard for us (me and DH) to ever think about adding to our lil family after our Taffy passed so many years ago. I'm so happy we did! I love my puppy dogs. They bring both joy and happiness...and fun!

Eggie, got the date in my head...only good thoughts for lil Oscar!! :-)

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Need some very positive thoughts here! Kind of frivolous, I know, but this is the only way we can be taken seriously as we go forward into the eventual breeding of Sussex Spaniels. Anyway, Cami has her first 'show' this weekend and hopefully, her first point or points. She will need 15 and a 'major' win to champion. As soon as she 'finished' we can have her living with us!!!

I feel like such an idiot! Oliver's foot-fur had grown out and I hadn't noticed. I think that's how he re-injured that back foot. Last night, after I clipped back all the fur, he was doing great and not slipping around, at all. Duh!! I'm doing Mags today!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kstme I will send you all the positive thoughts no matter how frivolous!!! Thanks again for "shamu and flipper"!!!!!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey KSTme, what makes a sussex different from a cocker (or other spaniels)?

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just had to post a couple of my baby playing today.





Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julie, now that's a question and a half!, but I will try to do a short version.

A Sussex Spaniel has golden liver colored fur, nose is liver colored, also. There is no variation of this except sun lightened ends. They are broader, stockier and bigger than a cocker, although their height is between 13 to 16 inches. They should weigh, for females, around 35 to 45 and males, around 43 to 55. Their fur doesn't 'grow' like a cockers and unless they are fixed it will remain seal-like to the touch. They, also, grin. Their tales are docked at 5 to 7 inches, unlike other Spaniels who are docked around 3.

Their disposition is like no other dogs, except maybe a Basset Hound. They are stubborn and patience is the key to training them. They don't like children, as a rule, but that can be overcome. They don't care for other dogs out of their breed. They can become agitated around other dogs who are sickly. Because they are a rare-breed dog and there are so few of them, they still retain that true instinct of survival of the more fit. That being said, mine are NOT vicious in any way and I only know of a couple who have been put down due to this. Many breeders are taking this breed back to it's beginnings and training them to be hunters, again.

LOL, sorry...that's the short version! I'll put a picture of them in my profile.

Grace, this reminds me of a Jacquie Lawson card!! It sure looks cold!! brrrrrrrr!!

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julie, I have put a pic of Van's dogs in my profile. She is our breeder. Those pups are Ollie and Maggie's Mom, Ollie's Mom, their Dad, sister and Onslow, her new male.

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 1:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lol kaili - at first glance I thought is that dog wearing snow skies?