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Feeling like a fraud and what we're about in 2016

27/11/2015

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I've been meaning to do this blog for a day or two. Firstly the feeling like a bit of a fraud. I have a lot of regular traffic to the website from past customers and a lot of the traffic are those looking for a Cavapoo and it is the ones looking for a Cavapoo that make me feel like a bit of a fraud. You probably searched 'Cavapoo breeder' and here you are. Now although I have bred Cavapoos, they are not the be all of what I am doing and for the foreseeable future I cannot see us breeding any first cross litters, so for a lot of you coming to this website I'm not a Cavapoo breeder really. 
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The Cavapoo is part of a bigger picture, breeding a healthier Cavalier type spaniel and next year will see us taking a F1 (First cross) Cavapoo to a second generation. At this moment we are probably only going to be breeding one litter in 2016 and this will be a F1b litter. Our F1 Cavapoo Treacle, who's details can be found on The Girls page,​  will be mated, all health tests going to plan with Toby our pure Cavalier boy. Toby's details can be found on The Boys page. This will produce offspring that predominately look Cavalier, being 3/4 Cavalier and 1/4 Poodle. It will be surprising how quickly they will throw back to looking pure Cavalier, but they should be less exaggerated in the skull than a pure Cavalier. So we now start the journey to our next litter.
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Toby (Cavalier King Charles Spaniel)
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Treacle (f1 Cavapoo) her Mum is Dolly and her Dad is Reggie
Last week rang the vet and booked in Toby for his annual heart check with the cardiologist vet, along with Smudge and Primrose who are now over 5 years old. Around 50% of Cavaliers have a heart murmur by 5 years old, so this is a big milestone for a Cavalier to pass, unfortunately for the breed. So I'm off to see the cardiologist vet on Wednesday morning next week, so fingers crossed.
Treacle should be on heat around Feb/March time, so pups on the ground around April/May maybe June if she heats late. If all goes well and this litter goes ahead we will hope to retain a male pup, which will then be used with our two Brittany/Cavalier bitches, Bumble and Blottie. If interested in this litter, no need to contact me now. Please read the website page Buying A Puppy From Poundlane This page will tell you how we run waiting lists etc. 

The photos below were taken by our daughter Molly of Treacle and Toby on my lap and Treacle's parents Reggie and Dolly either side of me.
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Lucy leaves us

27/11/2015

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Have just seen Lucy off. Lucy has been staying with us while Sue and Jim were visiting their daughter and her family in Australia. 
Lucy as normal has been easy to care for and was very excited to see Sue and Jim when they turned up to pick her up. Hope the trip home is better than the one down. Sue and Jim got caught up in a lot of traffic, which we think is to do with it being, 'Black Friday' aka Trample total strangers to get subpar cheap goods day.



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Primrose
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Ysobel, her daughter Primrose and Jessica
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Toby and Dolly
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Reggie, Henry, Bumbl, Toby and Blottie
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Jessica
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Henry
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Toby
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Reggie
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Make your cake and share it

26/11/2015

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PictureCake time
My husband, David's 45th Birthday today and 16 years since I got down on one knee and I asked him to marry me and then that day we got married. It is that simple, if you want to just get married. It really does not matter who asks who when getting married. Just make sure if you are doing the asking that you really love them, warts and all, and if you are doing the answering saying, "yes", vice versa. 

'Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.'

               - Buddy Valastro




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David rests after partying with the children
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A cow with bannas on its head

25/11/2015

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PictureDavid's Birthday Cake
The children have finished their Dad's Birthday cake for tomorrow. A cow with what looks like bananas on its head, but I have been assured by the children, that they are horns. Made with love and a whole load of spittle and daub.

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'What are we all looking out of windows for?'

25/11/2015

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Thanks Margaret for this cute photo and caption for Bella, who's Dad is Reggie and Mum is Dolly. Born the 29th October 2011. 
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Bella says "what are we all looking out of the windows for?" Mum and Dad? (Reggie/Dolly)
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Adaptable Alfie in the Alps

25/11/2015

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I have received a lovely update from Joan and Colin, who have the very handsome Alfie. Alfie is Bumble and Blottie's brother and his parents are Henry and Smudge. He is from our first ever Cavalier cross Brittany litter born April this year. Alfie at this time is adventuring in the French Alps again with Joan and Colin.
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Alfie, Annecy Beach
I had a bit of trouble trying to upload Joan and Colin's update, so resorted to taking photos off the computer of the document and then uploading on here from photos. 
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Thanks Joan and Colin for such a lovely update. He does look very much like his old Dad.
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Like mother, like daughters

24/11/2015

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PictureBumble and Blottie's Mum Smudge takes her turn for a nap in the armchair
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer 

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Dogs will fall asleep on anything

24/11/2015

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Blottie (Cavalier cross Brittany) decides that David's dealer boot looks a good place to perch her head and take a nap. 
Whilst Blottie's sister, Bumble (Below) sleeps above her Dad, Henry.

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Bumble and her Dad, Henry
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Henry on the sideboard

23/11/2015

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Just got in and was playing with Henry and thought I'll film him doing what Henry is very good at, jumping up anywhere you tell him to. 
​When you see him being asked to jump up on the sideboard, please don't think naughty dog, because that would be you thinking that Henry thinks that what he is jumping up on to is a sideboard. For him, it is just somewhere I have given him the command to jump up on to. He never goes up on the sideboard without being commanded to.
I did learn one lesson whilst trying to film this. That it is confusing for the dog to be trying to film and give them commands at the same time, because you are trying to film, your body language is not so clear and Henry I know takes most of his cues from me from my eye contact and body movement. Yep, I said eye contact. Yes, I find that you can actually look your dog in the eyes without him/her thinking you are being aggressive or vice versa. There are lots of different types of eye contact and eye contact has a lot to do with what the rest of your body is saying and in what context the eye contact is in and that is the same for the dog.
​The second jump you will notice I removed the vase off the sideboard and I got a couple treats, and Henry then shows us how good he is at catching as well. 
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Father and daughter

22/11/2015

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PictureFather, Henry with his daughter, Bumble (Cavalier cross Brittany)
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

​        - Edward Hoagland


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Looking mad, being silly

22/11/2015

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Being silly
PictureToby does his 'Playdog' pose
Got home from milking this evening and after eating the lovely cottage pie my husband had made (as last night I had forgot to get a joint of meat out of the freezer to have the customary roast dinner on Sunday) and then sat down beside the fire and was a little bit of a piglet and polished off a scone with clotted cream and jam on. I was then reclining after my indulgence and rather full tummy, with the dogs and our daughter, Molly appeared taking photos. She got a bit annoyed with me, as the first photo, apparently I looked like I was mad. So she then told me to pretend I was asleep with the dogs, so I dutifully closed my eyes, opened my mouth and pretended to snore and got told to "Stop being silly, Mum!" Then in the last photo I managed to behave but Toby decided to act like he was posing for 'Playdog'

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Good dog walking weather

22/11/2015

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An amazing Autumn sunrise here this morning. The sun did disappear for a while in to the dark clouds, but they have since dispersed and although a cut in the wind, it looks like it is going to be a dry and bright day. Good dog walking weather. 
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Primrose back in the pack

22/11/2015

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Primrose has now finished her heat, so Saturday was back in with the pack, along with Treacle, who has been keeping her company for the best part of her time kenneled outside whilst on heat.
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Treacle and Belle
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Primrose
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Primrose
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Treacle
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Like father, like son

21/11/2015

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Picture'Alfie watching his first snow x'
Got this sweet photo of Henry's son Alfie, sent to me this morning by Colin and Joan, watching his first snow in the French Alps. Seems Alfie takes after his Dad, who loves to sit watching from a window.
Alfie is from Smudge and Henry's Cavalier/Brittany litter born April this year, so is Bumble and Blottie's brother who also like taking in life from a window.
Just thought this blog is a chance to upload a track from 'The Jam'

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Rematch!

20/11/2015

 
A couple days ago I blogged some footage of are 7 month old Cavalier cross Brittany sisters, Bumble and Blottie all in wrestling on an old mattress we have got out in a shed. This morning was rematch.
This play may seem very rough to some, but this is within the remit of play for dogs. One of the best ways to exercise and keep a dog fit, is another dog.
When watching this, as much as you may think you are seeing just aggression,  to play together like this without hurting each other or knowing when to withdraw from hurting, there is a lot of submission going on as they play.  
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Bumble and Blottie rarely sleep far from each other and these two photos show, that although they play roughly, they have their softer moments together as well.
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End of the day

19/11/2015

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Bumble crashed out on my lap at the end of the day
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Bumble sparko
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In the dry

19/11/2015

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Blottie, Dolly, Smudge and Toby
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Reggie
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Bumble
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The weather is very wet here today and the dogs are only to happy to be in the dry.
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Bumble and Blottie
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Dolly, Millie, Toby and Henry
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Lucy, Dolly, Ysobel, Millie, Toby, Henry and Reggie
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Belle
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Watching the rain

19/11/2015

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Jessica asleep, while Henry behind her, watches the rain
I decided to not go grocery shopping and just nipped to the local petrol station and full up the car, as the light came on this morning whilst ferrying the children to school and picked up a few bits and pieces to tide me over to the weekend.
Just bunged a couple tray cakes in the oven and came into the front room of our home, to get a lovely photo of Henry in his favourite place for watching and today he is watching the rain. There is plenty of it.
​And before anyone says anything. That is not a Christmas decoration hanging from the curtain rail, but just a generic decoration our children made with wool balls (I've been told since publishing this, that they are not wool balls, but pom poms) they had made.
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'A dog teaches a boy'

18/11/2015

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PictureBoy and Dog painting by artist Laurie Justus Pace
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

​          - Robert Benchley


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WWF  Dog Wrestling

18/11/2015

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We changed our bed mattress and we put the old mattress for now, out in one of our sheds The children have enjoyed bouncing on it. Blottie and Bumble also  enjoy wrestling on it. This morning as I was getting logs in for the fire, I noticed Blottie and Bumble on the mattress and thought I ought to film this. So I managed to go to the house, get the camera and return without Blottie and Bumble following me, as they normally would and caught a bit of footage of them wrestling on the mattress.  
I also got a couple photos this morning of Dolly and Lucy waiting at the door, as I brought logs in beside the fire.
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Dolly and Lucy
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Dolly and Lucy
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Just Dolly

13/11/2015

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PictureDolly now eight years old



​'The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into.'
               
                                         -Bruce Schimmel

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By the fire

13/11/2015

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Henry enjoys the warmth of the fire
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Under the paw

13/11/2015

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Henry has a "children getting on top of you moment" with his daughter, Bumble
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Mollie Moo

13/11/2015

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I received this lovely update from Rhian for Mollie, who is from Smudge's litter born in February, 2014 and our Reggie is her Dad.
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'Hi there Jane and family

So sorry we haven't been in touch lately, we have been away every month so far in our caravan. Mollie has had a brilliant time, I think she must be one of the most travelled dogs and has done a lot of the U.K this year. She is so good that we take her into restaurants etc and she just sits under the table and no one knows she is there until we get up to leave . We have packed the caravan away now for the winter (we are fair-weather caravaners!!) but are on the laptop looking for next year's holidays.

I have just finished looking at your blog again and am exhausted just reading it, how on earth do you manage to do everything, I reckon you deserve a medal. You even make your own Yorkshire puddings (not an Aunt Bessie in sight) am I the only one who cannot make proper Yorkshire puds? Don't answer that!

PictureMollie and Mickey
Mollie is still a wonderful dog and we can't believe she has been with us for almost 18 months, she is such a character and makes us laugh so much. She has a toy box and knows the names of all of her toys, we bought her a new one yesterday and have named him Mickey monkey and at the moment she will not put him down, Mickey has become her best friend already (have sent you a couple of photos).  Wherever we go we are stopped by people who want to know what breed she is, they think she is beautiful, which of course she is and we have to explain where she came from.  She is so very well behaved and loves learning new tricks, but her favourite thing of all is running on the beach and playing with other dogs, she truly is a credit to you. Thank you so much. We still miss our Bobbie but Mollie has kept us sane and we don't know what we would have done without her.

Keep up the good work, love the blogs and seeing how all of her siblings are doing. Sorry the email is so long!!!! 

Best wishes Rhian Russ and Mollie Moo'

Thanks Rhian for letting me know how you are all getting along and that Mollie has really been such a help since losing your old Cavalier boy, Bobbie. Thanks also for your kind comments and giving Mollie such a wonderful and loving home.
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Two tri's try out the new dog bed

12/11/2015

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Dolly and Toby
Don't often get a photo of our two tricoloured Cavaliers together. Looks like they both like the new dog bed I got a couple days ago.
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Dolly and Toby
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    Hello, I am Jane!
    You might of guessed, I love dogs. My family and me are situated in the North Devon countryside, England, United Kingdom. Our home is occupied by my husband, David, our children, pack of dogs and me.
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