My Pups One Year Old

[lankeela]

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[China Doll]

Very cute!

[bednobs]

how long would you still call them puppies for? I only ask cause our puppy is 20 mnths old now, bit we still call her the puppy (well, usually "that fu***** annoying puppy")

[lankeela]

Don't know if that worked! My pups Haribo, Diesel, Hector, Roo and Bronte now all one year old. I am so lucky that the four that have gone to new homes have all kept in touch.

[lankeela]

Well obviously it did work! They are officially pups till they are 12 months old but to me they are always my puppies!

[abstibus]

They're just lovely.

[lankeela]

They are very special pups. My friend died tragically young from cancer just over a year ago, and I took on one of her bitches who was in whelp. She had the pups on 6th December and stayed with me till this summer, when she went to live with a lady in Scotland who had another of my friend's dogs. I kept a dog puppy, Haribo (the only one with tipped ears), he has qualified for Crufts as has his sister Bronte who was given to another friend who helped nurse the owner while she was very ill. Diesel has gone to live with the sister of the girl who had Gin the Border Collie who did well on Britains Got Talent the year before Pudsey won it, and he goes out every day in a tractor and is also a show dog, another dog Hector is living on the Isle of Wight right near the beach with a lovely lady and baby Roo has gone to an eventing family in Yorkshire and goes out every day with the horses. I feel so lucky to have been able to find them all such super homes as they meant so much to so many people.

[ladybirder]

bednobs >>we still call her the puppy (well, usually "that fu***** annoying puppy")

[ladybirder]

Don't know what happened there, last line disappeared - which was:

Shush, she'' hear you.

Lovely pics Lankeela.
Have you heard anything about the abandoned dog at Littlehampton last week?

[lankeela]

Meridian TV visited him at the rescue kennels and did this report, but still no news of the women who abandoned him. Its wonderful to see he still has a lovely temperament after what he went through.

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/story/2012-12-10/cctv-of-dog-being-abandoned/

[boxtops]

I love the ears!

[ladybirder]

Thank you, it's lovely to see him looking a bit better. I get Meridian but missed that. I hope he's got a queue of people waiting to give him a home, when he's ready. He's in Brighton now and that is a good place for rehoming.

[divegirl]

Stunning pups...gotta love them ears!

Lisa x

[B00]

looking at those photos im convinced my JRT Lancashire Heeler!

She's never looked like a JRT, has the same colouring at that pup in the photo (but which a white chest) and even has the same sticky up ears.

[lankeela]

Go to our Lancashire Heeler Community website www.lancashireheelers.org and we have a page for photos called 'Is my dog a Lancashire Heeler' - you would be amazed how many there are! Please send a picture of your dog!

[lankeela]

http://www.lancashireheelers.org/is_my_dog_a_lancashire_heeler.php

[B00]

Ive looked on there Lankeela (ta for the link), yes she looks very much like a lot of them, but no one's answered any of them?

Is there supposed to be a "professional" who says yat or nay to the enquirers?

[chaptazbru]

Awww lovely.

[lankeela]

No, if you read it says there is no way of knowing for definite. Heelers were farm dogs and only KC recognised in 1981, so there will be many who were crossed with other breeds over the years, and these crop up every now and then. Some are very obviously Heelers and some very obviously crosses - but there are a lot in the middle and who can say? Without DNA testing for parentage there is no real way of finding out.

[lankeela]

The KC do have a system whereby unregistered dogs can be accepted onto the breed register but they have to be health tested and then assessed by championship show judges to be of the correct 'type' and meet certain criteria. This is how they were first recognised, the Lancashire Heeler Club had their own register and specialist judges had to assess the dogs to say whether or not they were acceptable as Heelers. Sadly that avenue was closed to us far too early and we would have a muich bigger gene pool had it been open for longer.