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The DOOM Spaniels
Do not look the hypno-spaniels directly in the eyes.
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Tristan (b&w American cocker spaniel): birthday 2018-05-05; joined us 2018-09-08
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Guinevere (red English working cocker spaniel): birthday 2020-04-18; joined us 2020-12-10
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Yvaine (red and white American cocker spaniel): birthday 2007-12-27; adopted 2011-08-20; returned to the stars 2020-11-16
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Merlin (buff English cocker spaniel): adopted 2015-09-09; gone away, gone ahead 2018-08-26
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Guinevere's Royal Treasurer (GRT), she/her
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Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy (TFaTB), he/him
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the Duality of Dog
the "stay" and the "okay"
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Welcome home zoomies!
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I just think he鈥檚 neat
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Enjoying the warm bed after a cold winter walk.
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Frolicking
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that is AMAZING I made a delighted noise that made TFaTB ask "that was a video I just heard, right? that row-roo?" squeeeeeEEEee3e3eeeeeeeEe!
Created some fanart today
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Upside down is the only acceptable angle at which to eat your peanut butter dregs
#echo#cocker spaniel#True Spaniel Elegance#True Elegance Truesday#oh my dog#oh my very dog#are you seeing this#video
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#raven#west siberian laika#kaloo#idi#True Elegance Truesday#True Sighthound Elegance#sighthounds are made of slinkies#kaloo's slinkies are extra stretchy
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Nola Rose's Big Birthday Poll
This is Nola Rose:
She is my best girl, my babylove, my beloved little butt and my most precious evil eel, and in one week, she will be one year old!
Recently, I ordered her an Embark test, in the hopes of one day reuniting her with one of her siblings or other family members, and to maybe get an idea of what other health problems I could expect in the future.
I was not expecting any surprises on the breed front, because the rescue had Nola's original paperwork from her "breeders," indicating her mama was a brown Cocker Spaniel named Spruce, and her daddy was a registered blenheim Cavalier King Charles named Fellow. AND YET.
...and 7.2% something I did not expect at all. Full honesty, I don't see it, but maybe it explains a few things about her?
ANYWAY. For Nola's impending birthday, I thought it might be fun to survey other people, to see their best guesses at the third breed in Nola's genetic cocktail. I've pulled all poll options from an article on the most common breeds for Cavalier crosses, and additional photos and possible clues to her ancestry below the read more.
Starting from the top, BABY PHOTOS, of Nola Rose and the two sisters the rescue picked up from the puppy mill auction.
That photo of Nola on the left was the photo in her Petfinder listing, the one I saw by accident in the middle of the night that made me fall in love with her immediately. I honestly have no idea how she was the last of her siblings left to be adopted, but I will never not be desperately grateful.
Maybe it was because she had the dramatic eyebrows and mutton chops of a civil war general, I can't say. In more recent photos, you can see that the eyebrows and bushy cheeks have subsided, but the insanely luxurious eyelashes remain.
Her color has darkened immensely since I brought her home in August. She used to be a much lighter sable, and fully blonde on the top of her head.
Speaking of which, sable isn't a breed standard color in either Cavaliers or Cockers, and her ridiculously long chin beard (which you won't see in any of her photos because I have her groomer trim it off) doesn't appear in those breeds either. Coincidence?
At just shy of a year, she's hopefully maxed out at 18 pounds, and she's unbelievably leggy, with an outrageously long body and the deep chest of a racing dog. (She's also fast as hell, good god.)
Her fur is unbelievably silky, save for a coarser ruff over her shoulders and trailing down her spine, and her cocker-fluff booty feathers. Her back end was trimmed down substantially before the above photo. Her tail might be the softest part of her, and I love how it's both silky and curly.
Behaviorally... she's. Something.
Nola has the strongest prey drive of any dog I've ever met, including that time we babysat a rat terrier mix named Ella The Killer. Nola's little heart is so full of murder that I have to close curtains so she won't hurt herself trying to break through the windows to get at bunnies. She is a grand champion at "breaking the necks" of her toys by way of viciously shaking them.
Nola likes to burrow! She tunnels under blankets, rugs and throw pillows, and her favorite way to sit On A People is between our legs when we're in recliners. She likes to feel confined. She also deeply enjoys being held, and she asks to be picked up by my father at least once a day, even tho she's perfectly capable of jumping into his lap by herself now.
She LOVES to lie in the sun until her little body is radioactively hot and her mouth smells like hot rotting garbage, which is actually extremely weird, because she's our second sable dog in a row to have solar-powered halitosis and I'm not above begging people for answers. If you have a dog that has especially stinky breath after they've been in the sun, indoors or out, please talk to me because I'm dying for answers.
Ahem. What else.
Nola is disturbingly smart, and has no concept of obedience, but an excellent grasp of the concept of naughtiness. She knows exactly which items in the house are Forbidden, and which ones will get our attention the quickest if she takes or otherwise threatens them. She also knows the names of most of her toys and can distinguish between them when she's feeling cooperative.
Her favorite way to wake me up when it's time for work is to jump up on my bed, pounce on me, and oh-so-gently bite the tip of my nose. (I know I shouldn't encourage it but it's so sweet I may die.)
She investigates new people by aggressively sniffing their eyes.
She is my tiny daughter with every disease, but despite her allergies, and her asthma, and her megaesophagus, and her subluxated hip, she is the happiest, most delightful little being in all the world.
I lov her.
#nola rose#cockalier#polls#I still think she's wocker not cocker#but akc papers would say 'English cocker spaniel' not 'cocker spaniel'#not that her breeder's paperwork can be trusted obv
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For your viewing pleasure: my new pfp
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Alright, who disassembled my dog wrong while I wasn't looking. Fess up.
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hey dogblr. I'm currently fostering this stray dog from my neighborhood. Likely around a year old, she has great teeth. Got her up to date on vaccines, treated for intestinal parasites, heartworm negative and just got 6 month heartworm prevention shot.
Located in Mississippi but I can meet someone for the right home. Potty trained. Shes good on a leash and in a kennel but she is a chewer. Still a baby and could use some training.
She loves the snuggle and she carries around her blanket when we let her out of the kennel.
We've been calling her Poppy and we think she may be a lab/husky mix.
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True Spaniel Elegance: during welcome home zoomies
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baby. babybabybaby
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