Ellen Turberfield's Comments

Dear Ellen, Your kind words about my boy, Hammer mean a very great deal to me because I loved Hammer so very much. The only way I can cope without Hammer is to ensure he remains a part of every single day of my life. How is your beautiful Finlay going? I hope he is doing well, and you too. I look forward to seeing some photos of your beautiful boy very soon. xxxxx Susan

Dear Ellen, Thank you for telling me about your vet experiences with Finlay. I can understand your tears of joy and your anger only too well. Thankfully you have found a good vet now and I am so very pleased to hear that Finlay is well. He is certainly a very beautiful boy in every way. You must feel so proud of him. I cannot talk about what was done to Hammer but I will tell you a little about Hobson. As well as the vets almost killing Hobson twice, I discovered just before Christmas 2013 that Hobson has been suffering muscu-skeletal problems for at least 3 years which have been misdiagnosed as "skin" problems. None of these idiots have listened to me and I have paid them a great deal of money for Hobson to suffer so much pain for so long. I feel a great deal of anger towards them. Take care too, Ellen, and sending you and Finlay Love and Hugs. Susan xxxx

Dear Ellen, It is horrific that the vet wanted to amputate Finlay's leg. You have been through hell and back trying to do your very best for Finlay. I had a very good vet for my dogs from 1976 - 2008. He used to support me to care for my dogs and he made the effort to understand my relationship with my dogs. This is what vets are supposed to do, but times have certainly changed now. Hugs to you and Finlay xxxxx Susan and her kids

Hi Ellen, Thank you very much. He is my first IS!

Hi Ellen, He has already become my best friend. We are together all the time. I think I have bonded with him more than any other dog I've owned. Fortunately, I have been able to stay home with him; we play a lot and go for two walks every day.

Thanks Ellen, the face of Gunner is my favorite photo of him. He is only 6 months and I cant believe how small he used to be, how quickly we forget!

Thank you Ellen,

He is getting so big. His coat is getting darker and longer. Any suggestions on removing the orange fuzz on his legs? I don't want to remove any or the darker red hair, but the orange seems to be taking over his back legs. Supposedly; the Coat King, is the tool I need?

Thanks again for the comment.

Mike

Hi Ellen,

Thanks for answering. It doesn't seem right to me to pull the hair out. The Coat King supposedly cuts the hair off close to the body so it doesn't show up. That would be better than pulling all that hair out, I could never do that to Gunner!

Crufts sounds like a great day. Would love to see all the Irish Setters! There are not many IS here; so when I take Gunner out, he gets a lot of attention; which he loves.

If you do hear of a less painful way of removing the orange fluffy hair, please let me know.

Thank you so much,

Mike 

Hi Ellen, Glad you had a good day at Crufts! Whenever I can I love to attend places like that. So much to see and learn.

Thank you so much for asking about the fluff! That was really great of you to do. It seems that everyone just pulls it out, and all agree its dead hair. My problem is just pulling out hair!! It is attached very well still and must hurt when being pulled. The fluff seems to be taking over more and more of his body. Soon he will have to be "de-fluffed", or re-named Fluffy!  :-(

Gunner lets me trim his feet and grind his nails, we started that at 8 weeks. That was a lesson learned from my last dog. She hated me touching her feet, I never really touched them until she was older and needed her nails trimmed.

Thanks again very much Ellen for thinking of me and asking questions, I really appreciate that.

Mike

The next time you and finley are welcome to do some setter sitting

Hi Ellen, We are all fine! It's great to hear from you and I'm so happy to know that Finlay continues to do so well! I also like that photo ... it's not so easy to get the four of the to pose ... ;-) Lots of greetings to you, dear Ellen!

Thank you Ellen, for the nice comment. He is no longer my little red ball of fur, but he is turning into a great dog!

I made birthday cakes for my dogs .Willow rather enjoyed them.

Your Finley one of Elaines. Keagan is also from Elaine. Both me and Elaine had litter sister and bred down from them..

Ellen Molly loved being on the boat....two trips on water for her but I fear next time we pack suitcases she is really going to be mad when she goes to the kennel!

Ellen I fear we are in for it as one of Molly's rules is if I like it it will always be that way! Afraid with our girls grown Molly gets a wee bit too much attention from us..

..and for Alan it is like he never had an Irish Setter before as this is the first one he has had the joy of being home with...plus our first female so not sure which is more important with the two of them. I just tell everyone Alan has a red headed mistress....to shocked expressions which I laugh at....once they see Molly with him they understand what I am up against.:)

Ellen not sure how I managed to leave my comment to you as a comment to myself....it's there if you care to read it. 

Mostly I wanted you to know how thankful I was that your first vet was wrong about Finlay.....who my the way is beautiful and I even heard from Eunice what a special boy he is. Enjoy each funny antic he does a.d keep right on spoiling him.....what I plan to do with my Molly.

Hello sweet Lady  :-)  yes, I signed on after too long a break, in fact I received a nice friend request which prompted my decision. Glad to know that you and adorable  Finley are well. Any chance to see a picture of him now?  Take care lovely friend, big hug from me and of course plenty of cuddles to Finley boy.

Hi, Yes Rosie is 8 months now, Elaine has emailed me this week and im trying to take some up to date pictures of this crazy puppy who keeps moving every time the camera focuses. i'll tell mention you when i email her. Elaine has one of Rosie's sisters who she's training up for the show ring. Fin does look a handsome boy

Hi Ellen, Sending you and your beautiful boy, Finlay, many hugs. Best wishes from Susan, Hobson and Misty xxx