Monday, 18 August 2008

Sid

Sid is a star, and always makes you smile, he's a brilliant pet and working dog, who is well behaved but no where near boring, he is very intelligent and does not miss a trick especially when there is food involved. He has been called things from 'awesome' by a surfer dude in Cornwall to 'cuddly' by a local farmer, all of which are true but what ever people call him they never guess his breed first time which is of coarse cocker spaniel cross westie.
Hobbies include, winding up Ilka and getting her in to trouble the pic below shows him whispering to Ilka, telling her to do something naughty.
And this is him teaching Ilka how to look cute to get a treat.
'this is how you do it'
'good, now keep it up, until you get the treat'
He loves to work in the shooting season every saturday morning he goes crazy and will not leave Dads side to make sure he does not get left behind and it takes a few weeks after the shooting season for him to stop going mad on a saturday. When working, he is quite serious about the job no messing around, he's a tough working dog he goes though anything, does not run on even if he knows there is loads of pheasants in front of him he will work putting them up as he goes, so he gets to go on all the more difficult drives where they need a steady dog, he also picks up with me and Charlie while Dads shooting, hes good but not always very fast so you feel sorry for him when watching his face as another dog gets to the pheasant first (this is where we will need an Ilka), and at the end of the day all muddy and wet you have to drag him back to the car because he never wants to go home.Another major hobby of his is playing with Ilka.
He talks though his eyes, we often call him Gromit like off Wallace and Gromit because of all his different expressions, he can look as sad and soppy as a cocker and as bright and happy as a westie, and he can be very sensitive at times, but he does not take any rubbish, if another dog thinks hes better, Sid is more than up to putting them firmly back in there place.He loves sleeping on his back which he does quite allot.
Or he likes to be covered up
Now a few more pics some you may have seen before but....
Not wanting to be left behind he packed his toy and him self in Charlies suitcase
Christmas B.I. (before Ilka)
That's little Sid not a munster and not quite what we first intended to have (a pure cocker) but a brilliant little dog who we think is better than a cocker and is allot of fun.