Mooch.

Stolen from boarding kennels while owners doing charity work in Africa. http://www.doglost.co.uk/dog-blog.php?dogId=55745#.UgXoGKa9LCQ

Will it flat pack?

Because they're fashionable and Kate Middleton (that was) has got one.

Congratulations!

I'm working on photos. I'm having a problem getting them from my phones photo album to photobucket! At this age I'm not training as such. Just house training, teaching her her name and a few manners. Proper training will start in about 4 months time.

I did. Very pleased with her. She's a natural retriever, just now encouraging her to hunt.

I wouldn't say I'm an expert but I'd say that wasn't the best advice to be honest mate. As has been said if the breeding is there it will hunt. But trying to reign in a dog that has started hunting without proper control and training and is hunting for itself is not easy. A lot of folk ruin spaniels entering them to game too easy.I don't intend to get into an argument about it. What I wrote is the abridged version of a 2 minute conversation I had with a professional full-time working spaniel trainer about a month ago. He did only say to encourage it to hunt. There was no mention of entering it

I pick up my first ESS tomorrow. Local spaniel trainer told me to get it hunting because its easier to reign in a hunting dog than get a sticky dog to hunt.

All depends what work it's doing. On my shoot its 90% labs.

Slash and burn. Give it time to start re growing then hit it with glyphosate. Another couple of weeks and you can start preparing to seed.

Yes Minister/Prime Minister, Dad's Army, Allo Allo, Carry On films, Father Ted. Never really got on with Only Fools & Horses.

I agree with the in a case and not loaded advice but I'll add that when I bought my rifle the gunshop owner insisted that the magazine be emptied of pellets before I left the shop. Apparently, even if the magazine is not in the gun, if there are pellets in the magazine the gun is still technically loaded.

And there was me thinking I was doing a great job of keeping them in check!

I made one on a weekend course years ago. Lemon wood/hickory with buffalo horn notches. It's in the loft, never shot it and no idea of its draw weight!

I do. I've trained him to sit when I click my fingers to keep disturbance to a minimum and he often spots squirrels in trees before I do. Sometimes he's a liability but I can't leave home without him!