I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

Deposit down for this little chap. He was calm but holding his own against the bigger more boisterous dogs.

Time to become a parent again and lose even more sleep.

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Oh damn that's horrible. I guess you managed to get it out before the end of the escalator? That's so scary.

Oh wow congratulations!

Little sod looks delightful. It looks like working stock so it'll come with inbuilt insanity and hyperactivity as part of the basic design spec. I have two working cockers, to be more precise my wife has whilst I have (comparatively) sane labs. You'll have enormous fun and he'll be incredibly loyal, all the time he isn't trying your hopefully endless patience.

He looks adorable. Spaniels are hilarious. I remember watching a fella wade into one of the ponds at Hampton Court palace trying to get his Cocker Spaniel out after it had been doing laps for 40 minutes. One of my aunt's, once ran full tilt into a plate glass window, the noise inside was like being hit with a gong. No brain cells damaged, at least not noticeably....

She just sort of nipped herself, not a proper catch luckily! Will be avoiding in future regardless.

We had cockers as a family when I was small so kind of expecting it. Our kids are hyper anyway so fits with the household.

Mum is a police sniffer and dad is a working gun dog. Both are incredibly calm and well trained so hoping we can get to the same point after a few years of training.

What is it they say? Labs are born half trained and spaniels die half trained...

So it'll find your stash and shoot you for it!

The only stash in this house is the sweets I hide from the kids.

I'm hoping to train up for some sort of scent mushroom hunting. If nothing else it will be a fun game for the dog.

My wife was concerned our boy vizsla was in discomfort last night. This morning she asked a vet who lives in our village to check him and the advice was to take him straight to our vet for a proper scan. ultrasound shows what is probably a bleed in his belly most likely from a cancerous spleen. Now waiting for a CT scan which is probably going to deliver very bad news.

Now having to contemplate do we get him put to sleep at the vets or bring him home to do the deed. The vet in our village specialises in home visit end of life for pets.

He has been glued to us for the last 11 years, I can’t take a shit without him coming to check up on me. I am used to him thinking he is a lap dog, digging an elbow into my nuts, walking his 30kg frame across my body when I am sleeping, dozing off with his muzzle breathing into my neck and ear. There is going to be a huge one eyed ginger idiot shaped hole in my life and I can’t stop bawling my eyes out.

Really sorry to hear this. No right answer to your dilemma, unless he really doesn't like being at the vet. You being with him is what's important, tough as that is.

I am so sorry, I'm on my 7th and 8th generation of labradors, I cried over every one I have lost. The answer to your dilemma is whichever is quicker, the inevitable decision has been made, you owe him that much.

Sorry to hear that, I think the only piece of advice i can give is be there when they are going. Hope your ok!

Update. Ct scan shows no 2ndary growths. He just has one 18x17x6cm growth on the spleen and no bleeding in the stomach. So will go for a splenectomy as the vet reckons if the growth got this big with no obvious secondary tumours it’s not too aggressive.

That's great news!

It’s been a rollercoaster day, can’t wait for a groggy idiot to elbow my nuts.

Just catching up, shit news turned less shit.

Hope the pup bounces back swiftly from the op

Thank Christ for that, what a horrible time. Our girl is 11 (others are 9 and 10), so every stomach upset or bout of lameness scares us shitless.

10 years on, I still wish we'd brought our boy home. Fingers crossed for you.

The vet just called

Tumour was huuuuuge! And exploded when they touched it during the operation. So one jump or excited movement by the boy could have caused it to rupture and him to die of the haemorrhaging. It is incredibly lucky it was caught when it was. It had adhered to the stomach in a couple of places. But the boy was spared the potentially horrendous death by haemorrhaging and should be ready for collection in 45 mins or so. Given it is a not particularly malignant tumour and appears to have grown slowly I think we will just have to hope any adhesions left inside take a while to grow if they grow at all.

I now understand how his weight had gone up in the last year despite him looking quite ribby and despite the muscle wastage of the aging process.

Correction, tumour was 18x14x17 cm. We have photos.

I sort of want to see the pictures

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can’t wait for a groggy idiot to elbow my nuts.

I'm available for hire.

Glad the outcome is looking better than initially thought.