The puppies are getting adventurous. It seems like almost every time I went down to the puppy room this weekend, at least one of the puppies was out of the whelping box. Looking somewhat befuddled, or whimpering slightly, or, in one case, just sitting there looking around. So this morning I was not surprised to [...]
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Brown curly escape artists
Posted in breeding, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies, whelping box on May 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Puppies, day 18
Posted in breeding, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniel puppies, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Puppies are wiggly! They don’t particularly care if I get a picture of them or not. But I care, so I wrangled up a volunteer to hold each and every sweet puppy for me. Even so, I couldn’t get them all to be still for the same profile. Oh, well!
17-day old puppies in motion
Posted in breeding, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniel puppies, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies, whelping box on May 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Just a short video here of the Tooey x Cork puppies at 17 days. I think it nicely shows how they’re moving around their whelping box, and how they pile up when they all decide it’s time for a nap.
Puppies day 11
Posted in breeding, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, IWS puppies, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Tooey calmly feeding her 10 fat and happy puppies: that’s the sight that greeted me on Friday night at Colleen’s. Russ, bless his heart, agreed to run Cooper in this weekend’s spaniel hunt tests, so that left me free to go take care of my girl Tooey and her puppies. The first order of business [...]
Ring nerves visualization
Posted in dog behavior, dog shows / conformation, life with dog, Obedience/Rally, puppy, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged AKC hunt tests, Control Unleashed, dog shows, dog toys, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Junior hunt tests, Leslie McDevitt, nervousness at dog shows, retrieving, retrieving the morning paper, ring nerves on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been searching around for ways to handle my nervousness at dog shows. I love this quote*, which I just found in the Yahoo group, Clicker Competition Obedience Training: …Any time you start to feel nervous, take a nice deep breath and picture three images in your head. First think about the first time you [...]
Christmas duck
Posted in dog behavior, dog shows / conformation, life with dog, puppy, Realta Rosario Cooper, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged bird dog, Christmas gifts for dogs, dog, dog toy, dogs, gifts for dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, IWSCOPS, sqeeze meeze duck, Xmas presents for dogs on December 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
No, not a real duck. But a very important duck (or pair of ducks) nonetheless. The duck on the right has been Cooper’s favorite toy ever since he “won” it for participating in the bird dog match at his first IWSCOPS Specialty in August 2007. To be in the bird dog match, he’d had to [...]
Major Miss Tooey — new and improved
Posted in dog grooming, dog shows / conformation, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog, dog show, dog shows, dogs, grooming, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, IWS grooming, puppy on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had I been willing to stand outside in the freezing air last night, I might have wished upon a star that Tooey would do as well or better today than yesterday. Turns out that wishing on said star was not necessary. She did it again, and even better. At today’s Greater Clark County Kennel Club [...]
When the dog’s owner is sick
Posted in friendship, life with dog, puppy, Realta Rosario Cooper, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog, dogs, home sick with a dog, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, pets, taking care of a dog when you are sick on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometime ago, I wrote a post about how upsetting it can be when a dog is sick or afraid. I hadn’t really thought about how equally upsetting it can be when the dog is fine, but the person is sick. Last week, I was very sick with swine flu. No body system was working properly [...]
Tooey blossoms in the show ring
Posted in dog art and photos, dog shows / conformation, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged conformation, dog, dog photos, dog show, dog show ring, dog shows, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Russ Dodd photography on October 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Beauty must protect her face
Posted in dog healthcare, dog shows / conformation, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog, dog show, dog shows, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, minor injury, puppies, puppy, Vancouver Kennel Club dog show on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Especially when it’s just a week before a dog show. But puppies don’t necessarily know exactly where their faces (and other body parts) are in space. Or, at least, this puppy didn’t. Tooey and Russ were in the back yard, playing fetch, when Tooey returned to Russ with this injury just under her eye. She’d [...]
The new girl
Posted in dog art and photos, dog family tree, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged car sickness in dogs, carsick dog, dog, dog photos, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, motion sickness on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Introducing Tooey (aka Stanegate Second Thoughts): Tooey was born on December 9, 2008, so she’s still a puppy. You can see her pedigree at IWSdatabase.com. So far, she seems like a very sweet girl, very motivated by food (so much easier to train when they’re motivated by food), a snuggle puppy, and constant companion. She’s [...]
And who is this sweet girl?
Posted in dog grooming, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged Academy of Canine Behavior, dog, dogs, grooming, Irish Water Spaniel grooming, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, puppy, Stanegate on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was so sad about missing Cooper while he’s off to hunt school, Colleen suggested that I might want to have another dog in the house. She said, “I have a young girl (IWS) that would love to come and visit while Cooper is gone! She likes going on adventures.” At first we discounted [...]
Finding an IWS
Posted in dog shows / conformation, life with dog, puppy, tagged AKC breeders, dog, dog shows, dogs, finding a purebred dog, finding an Irish Water Spaniel, finding an IWS, Irish Water Spaniel breeder, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, IWS breeder, puppies, puppy on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was looking through my blog stats, and found that lots of people get here by doing a search on “finding an IWS dog”. Here’s what I did: Read everything on the web about Irish Water Spaniels. Go to the Irish Water Spaniel Club of America website, and look at their breeder referral page. Contact [...]
Five months and growing
Posted in puppy, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged dog, dog photos, dogs, Irish Water Spaniel, IWS, puppies, puppy on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When we sent these pictures to Rosemary, her first question was, “Where did his curls go?” He’d just had a bath and the drier had only temporarily straightened him out. The next rain, and he was all curly again. We kind of liked the walrus whiskers on his face, but several of the IWS folks [...]
