Hello,
Thanks to @Selina27 for letting me know about this forum. I used to post occasionally on TLF as 'blackandwhitedog' and it's nice to see so many familiar names here. At that time I had one working cocker, Jess. Now I have two!
Jess is 4 and Brodie is one this month. They are great fun, both typical cockers in that they are full of energy, incredibly affectionate and good-natured but very different personalities and very different challenges.
Jess loves people and loves other dogs but is extremely noise sensitive and has never been very interested in training of any sort. She likes a quiet, comfortable life of sofas and beds, interspersed with familiar country walks.
Brodie is a tornado - tackles the world at 100 mph and throws himself into everything (literally). He loves training and is very quick to learn. He loves adventures and new experiences.
I have been finding that I don't have much enthusiasm for training at the moment, perhaps due to covid and perhaps just the time needed for two dogs rather than one. Brodie has very good recall and walks well on a lead provided he is on a front-fastening harness, and will sit/stay fairly well. But that's about it. He is obsessed with tennis balls and when he has one is very reluctant to give it up (we trained him to give by swapping what he had in his mouth for something of equal or higher value. This worked so well that he now has a very precise sense of currency and as a tennis ball is the MOST valuable thing in his economy he won't give it up until he wants to.... I'd love to fix this, but not quite sure how.
Anyway, I could ramble on about the dogs for hours and probably will. For now will just say hi to all the humans and dogs on here!
Thanks to @Selina27 for letting me know about this forum. I used to post occasionally on TLF as 'blackandwhitedog' and it's nice to see so many familiar names here. At that time I had one working cocker, Jess. Now I have two!
Jess is 4 and Brodie is one this month. They are great fun, both typical cockers in that they are full of energy, incredibly affectionate and good-natured but very different personalities and very different challenges.
Jess loves people and loves other dogs but is extremely noise sensitive and has never been very interested in training of any sort. She likes a quiet, comfortable life of sofas and beds, interspersed with familiar country walks.
Brodie is a tornado - tackles the world at 100 mph and throws himself into everything (literally). He loves training and is very quick to learn. He loves adventures and new experiences.
I have been finding that I don't have much enthusiasm for training at the moment, perhaps due to covid and perhaps just the time needed for two dogs rather than one. Brodie has very good recall and walks well on a lead provided he is on a front-fastening harness, and will sit/stay fairly well. But that's about it. He is obsessed with tennis balls and when he has one is very reluctant to give it up (we trained him to give by swapping what he had in his mouth for something of equal or higher value. This worked so well that he now has a very precise sense of currency and as a tennis ball is the MOST valuable thing in his economy he won't give it up until he wants to.... I'd love to fix this, but not quite sure how.
Anyway, I could ramble on about the dogs for hours and probably will. For now will just say hi to all the humans and dogs on here!
Your dogs are gorgeous , feel free to ramble on about them as much as you like 
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