Deborah Christopher's Comments

Hi Deborah, I just have the one english setter, Wallace, he's twelve months old and I love him to peices, as I do my Irish obviously! We actually live in Scotland, right up on the North East coast, though I originally come from Northamptonshire. How about you? What made you go for a great day too?

opps - I meant great dane - doh!

hi hows it going have the pups gone off safely.you will miss them after theyre all gone if youre anything like me i worry about them none stop.

hi two homes to go thats not bad. Just enjoy them while it lasts soon they will be gone and its hard to fuss them all at the same time. So nows your chance. mine will come to that stage where who shall i fuss first.I tend to give the smallest the most cuddles it helps them to come on quicker. I also feed them seperate so they dont get pushed out by the bigger ones.

Thats quite normal . they play rough and can hurt but you just have to bite your tongue when a pup yells then the older dog knows it has hurt the puppy. You have to tell the older dog you hurt the baby eventually they get the message. also limit time together so they used to one and other slowly is another idea. sometimes a full on puppy with a older dog is not what they want but when they get used to one another you wonder what all the fuss has been about. A older dog would never as a rule hurt a puppy intentional it doesnt happen they just dont know how to handle the situation thats all.

if you want more help you could ring me just let me know im good with advise im a minefield thats what friends say but i think 30 yrs exp with dogs and a lifetime with cats helps.

Hi Deborah,
White flashes don't bother me, normally you will find as you start to groom your puppy for show a lot of that will disappear and as long as your puppy has a good coat it will blend in. It is difficult to choose as they go through so many changes. I normally choose mine between 6 and 8 weeks and unless something drastic goes wrong ie: bad mouth or entropian I tend to stick to it. Go with your gut instinct as you will have to live with that pup for life.
Have you had anyone to see them? What about your bitches breeder or the stud dog owner, sometimes they can be quite helpful. Perhaps we will meet at a show.

hi how are the pups. mine are growing in abundance i quickly gave one a weight in check and boy oh meat is working wonders.look forward to meeting you at some shows in the future.

you can give rusks or porridge. And as for milk i use lactol , ive got some skinners in at present. also i then go onto goats milk and after that 1/2 milk -water and then full milk ..hope this helps.

Hi there Deborah, haven't spoken in a while. Hope all is O.K. with you and yours, the summer is always a busy time even if only in the garden, don't really do garden..........in fact I hate cutting the grass, haven't had to do it in years, I just used to put the boys in the garden (my ponies) and they did a great job, fertilised it at the same time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hope to hear from you soon Dee and the girls

Hi there Deborah.
I know where you are coming from, mine go around the garden behind all the plants, I didn't put them in I have just moved here, but I do remember my last litter of setters they went through the garden like a plague of locusts, anything green was demolished. and then promptly brought up, ah don't you love them, but where would we be without them????? Richer with money, but poorer with love. How old are the puppies? and have you got homes for them all yet? I will hopefully be breeding my girl August/September time. Speak soon I hope. Good luck with them. Dee and the girls

Oh that is so sad, there are so many nice people out there that there is someone for all the puppies that are for sale. I am as I said going to let Saffy have puppies at the latter end of the year I hope there will still be people out there for them, we don't have many people up here that want puppies so it is difficult to get them all good homes, so keep you fingers crossed, how many are left?? apart from the one that came back.... good luck with the person who is coming today, hope they are the rite kind of people. Dee and the girls

hows it going with the pups. i cut claws again last night theyve grown again and can hurt you if you catch them.ive had visitors both this morning and afternoon and im waiting expecting to go again soon for the next visitors. hope you sorted the bfast problem out ok.

Hi there I got left with some boys when I bread my last two bitches. 5girs to 15boys they were from two litters but it is due to the stud dog that you get the sex of the puppies and to the dam that the number of puppies, there's a piece of useless information for you, although you probably knew that.....did the people who were coming have one of the wee girls?? or are they like so many that just don't bother to turn up... hope not. Speak soon Dee and the girls

just had 3rd couple visit so its been a busy day, ill have visitors tomorrow so another busy day booked.ive not been able to get to the shops yet.ill have to go in tomorrow for a few bits in between it all.ive not stopped for any food i started to do myself bfast and they turned up and on it went., all day.

I am pleased that they took one, its so difficult to get nice people these days.. and I think that animals choose their owners, my daughter was looking for her first horse, and we were in a huge indoor school with about twenty yearlings and one just wouldn't leave us alone, Kellie was looking for a gelding not a mare but she ended up with this young mare. She was a mess skin on bone but you should have seen her when Kellie finally had to sell her on, Marriage and children it was the best thing for Chimeah to go to a new home but it broke everyones harts, she was a real sweetheart.
As for people not turning up, I don't know what people think of when they are doing that..... I have found that when people phone and book a puppy I will take a non-returnable deposit, that always sheds the hoaxers. but it it still difficult getting NICE people, don't you think.....Dee and the girls

well yesterdays hard work paid off the visitors who came during the week returned to book a dog a piece so thats those 2 sorted.The pups are ok but i think it was a bit much for them they got tired out with showing themselves off.

ive managed now to fix homes for all br 1. a bitch but ive several who havent seen but have rang who could ring again so we will see over her. i didnt give them supper last night only with all these visitors they had the runs and i didnt want them to be plagued with diahorea for too long. Its a big thing all these visitors when on e is so small. Anyhow start afresh today. K got the pups porridge tub down this morning and ate the last of it dry powder i ask you. she didnt mind one bit. Itry to vet homes and monitor as closely as possible. i ask for pics, phone no, email vet no anything if they cant supply things you ask for theyre dodgey i would say.I try to visit if possible and ive even delievered pups at least then you see before you leave.The other is having cash not cheques. i had a bad customer some years ago now we havent spoke to this day he owed money said hed send it never did.so beware !!

well that is something that they all achieve from time to time, my Akita when she was a puppy ate my sons shoes nice leather new shoes, all I said was they shouldn't have been left on the floor, but off the line then that isn't down to them, hope it wasn't an expensive bra!!!!!!!!I used to have a foal that used to demolish the washing line. and then trample it all in the mud. all the best Dee and the girls

hi im worn out with the little mites. dont know about you. its not that they need a lot of work when you dont walk them but the weather i think is to blame. cant get them out in any sunshine to investigate and so that means several trips to the shed and back.
If it was just mum and babes i could have them in the kitchen but since our new carpets im not allowed to have the dogs in the lounge to much and thats a long story.Shadow gets to go in at night thats it.