Bella's Walk To The Beach :)

[sausagewinkle]

Friday night at my local beach, 2 mins drive from me

She LOVES the water

After the beach comes the bath

 

[Westwood]

Ha great pics!
That last pic is a POTM winner for sure!

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

WANTSSSSS....

The bath photo is great

 

[micko]

Last pic is definitely a POTM winner. Is she a springer?

 

[sausagewinkle]

Yeah she is a 8 year old springer

 

[micko]

Our springer is normal liver and white. Bella is a lovely colour.
Ours is water mad too. Her favourite is a forest though, all the mud, birds, streams and running through bushes.
What's yours like on a lead? Ours was terrible but we took her to a dog trainer. Done a fantastic job.

 

[sausagewinkle]

Yeah she loves muddy puddles haha.

She is actually my sisters dog, they are on holiday so I have her for 3 weeks. (1week left) I don't want her to go. My sister lives 100 miles from me so its not as if its just around the corner.
When she is at my sisters she doesnt get taken on the walks she needs, shell be lucky if she gets 1 walk a week!!
Here with me she goes out on a morning then on a tea time for lovely long runs.

With her not going out much she was terrible on her lead, 2 weeks with me having her she walks so so much better and hardly pulls at all now.

I think ill tell them she ran away just so I can keep her

 

[micko]

I really didn't like the idea of getting a springer when my girlfriend first suggested it about 5 years ago. The kids wanted a dog and I always had a dog as a child. We read up about them a wee bit and I still wasn't keen. After a few weeks she really grew on me. She's so gentle, and although she sheds hair quite a bit she has to be one of the best dogs I've ever owned. We got a rotweiller near three years ago and she mothered it from the day it got here until now.
We have rabbits and cats and when the cats and rabbits were small she would also mother them. Lick them, clean them. So funny to watch. She even managed to feed two stray kittens the kids brought home one day. They were dumped in a box. Our dog never had pups so I don't know how she managed to produce the milk but it wasn't good for the kittens, we had to re-home them as they wouldn't stop doing it.
She has terrible phantom pregnancies though.

 

[sausagewinkle]

I lost my family dog of 15 year in January, it was heartbreaking.
Its been so nice to have Bella living with me and my partner but makes me realise how much I miss Shep

Still think I should keep her though

 

[micko]

I think I would find it awful hard to let her go. She's stunning.

 

[sausagewinkle]

Even though ill see her again, in a month or so, ill cry my eyes out when she leaves haha

 

[sausagewinkle]

I realised last night that I said she was a Springer Spaniel, she isnt haha, she is a cocker

 

[hanny93]

We took our dogs to the beach on sunday, it was amazing, we have a whippet and a patterdale/lab cross, the whippet (charlie) LOVED the sand, obviously its a lot easier for him to run on than concrete or grass, and watching him run through the sea was hilarious. Lola the cross, went swimming, then realised she couldnt put her feet down and got scared!

Bella is beautiful, just as her name suggests! I cant imagine what it must feel like knowing you'll have to give her up in a week!

 

[micko]

The cockers are lovely too. Our wee girl wants one. Well, she wants every dog she see's.
We're going to England for a break this weekend, have to put the dogs in kennels and found this woman who has more of a zoo than a house. Its an old converted farm so all the sheds for the cows have been changed into places for the dogs.
The woman herself has 8 dogs, all lovely but one of them is half wolf. Stunning dog. Our wee girl was trying to put the half wolf into our car to take it home. Its huge. It took a real liking for our youngest wee boy, he's near 5ft and the wolf had her paws up on his shoulders, licking his face.
She has 5 snakes, 2 horses she re-homed which are disabled, loads of cats, 5 massives fish tanks and then has lots of pet chickens and wee chicks.

First time our dogs are going to be away from us over night so I'm sure they won't be happy and I'll miss them like mad.

 

[sausagewinkle]

It will be like their own little holiday though