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At 12:12pm on August 21, 2011, Chantal McIlveen-Wright said…: Welcome to ES Andy, and hopefully we will soon see plenty of pictures of your baby :-)

At 1:28pm on August 21, 2011, Andy Benstead said…: Thank you very much Chantal. I will soon be adding lots of Riley pictures. You may get fed up with them. He is so beautiful. A perfect puppy and obviously, we love him to bits. Andy

At 1:40pm on August 21, 2011, Chantal McIlveen-Wright said…: Andy we never get fed up seeing pictures of setters on this site ... we love them all and the more the better. Your Riley is absolutely beautiful .... what a cute wee thing, going to your page and see all the pictures now :-)

At 2:27pm on August 21, 2011, Andy Benstead said…: I am so spoilt, I am even on Facebook. Look me up (Riley Benstead) if you have time and don't mind chatting to a puppy. xx

At 3:46pm on August 21, 2011, Catherine Carter said…: Welcome! I am glad you made it here...I hope you enjoy the site and its Forums and thousands of photos!

At 7:37am on August 30, 2011, Barbara said…: Hi Andy! Have you tried the D.A.P. Spray because of the car sickness? It was the only thing that helped my girl. All the best. Barbara

At 1:54pm on August 30, 2011, Andy Benstead said…: Hi Barbara. Yes we have, but so far has made no difference to him. My wife has some rescue remedy and that seems to help. I feel quite sure he will grow out of it very soon. As soon as he is allowed out, he will be taking short walks in the park or the woods and long ones when he is older. He may then connect the car with something good. Fingers crossed.

Kindest regards

Andy (and Riley)

At 6:40am on September 3, 2011, lyn hathaway said…: hi andy welcome to exclusively setters

At 2:04pm on September 3, 2011, James Doran said…: Hi Andy, and welcome. Hope my little quip following your comment didn't offend you in any way. Just me trying to inject a little humour into a very serious debate! Sincere regards, James & Romeo.

At 10:28am on September 4, 2011, Andy Benstead said…: Riley Benstead has been out in the car today. We only went about ten miles but he was not sick. He started to dribble as we arrived at a horse sanctuary. He started to enjoy it, but then came the rain.
He got wet going back to the car and my wife had a towell to dry him. He met other dogs and some horses. He also met a lot of people that gave him lots of fuss. We came home and he just started to dribble as we arrived.
I am sure he will not have much trouble with cars in the future. Fingers crossed.

Andy

At 4:59pm on September 21, 2011, emma bell said…: Hi Andy,

Just wondering how Riley is getting on in the car now?

We have a long journey down to Tamworth on Saturday to collect our IRWS pup and I'm taking Darcey to keep her company on the way back. I'm sure by the time we get down there the car crate will look like a swimming pool! :D

At 1:46am on September 22, 2011, Andy Benstead said…: Hi Emma. Riley was getting so much better, but when we took Cassie to the vets on Monday, Riley came with us and he started drooling before he even got in the car. Obviously it is nothing to do with motion sickness, but a fear of the car.

At 2:03pm on March 9, 2013, Ellen Turberfield said…: Hi Andy, i spotted you at Crufts today it was the t-shirt that gave it away, but by the time i'd got out of the seat you had gone as i would of said hi. (",)

At 1:22pm on October 26, 2013, Dianne cook said…: Thank you Andy for your friends invite. It's wonderful been able to share Setter stories with other like minded friends. Take care Dianne, Flame and the two Wild Irish Roses... Ruby and Poppy. :0)

At 1:25pm on October 26, 2013, Dianne cook said…: Oh Andy just thought. When my book is ready to be sent, would you mind signing it for me please? Dianne.

At 2:50am on April 6, 2015, silvia said…: Andy , Riley
Am I wrong or there was a poem from you yesterday ? Quite sad one....thinking of you I hope nothing is wrong ..hug silvia and obi

At 8:14pm on April 6, 2015, Andy Benstead said…: Hi Silvia.

Yes you are right. I posted it here and hoped to get some comments. I would not object if the comments were good or bad as long as they were honest. I noticed it had been seen by a good few people, but no comments were left. I thought if members had not left a comment, they didn't think it was any good, so I deleted it.

As you are interested, I will post it again and hope you will be kind enough to leave a comment about it. Good or bad..

Hope you and Obi are well.

Lots of love.

Andy. xx