Springer Spaniel – Wonderful Dogs, Constant Companions
August 2, 2009 by
Springer Spaniel is an intelligent dog who catch on to new things easily. The Springer Spaniel is an ideal dog for country or city life. Springers are people pleasers. They love to be around people, and they are energetic, loving companions. Playful and energetic, the Springer Spaniel can bring its owner many hours of amusement. With proper training the can excel in agility, tracking, retrieving, obedience, hunting, and field trials. They are great with children and are an excellent pick for families. Children should be supervised with all breeds of dogs.
Owners will be satisfied with a Springer because they are so friendly and eager to please. There are people who use the sweet temperament of a Golden Retriever to describe the Springer’s personality. If it is what their families are doing, they are perfectly content with just laying around the house. They are very flexible and acclimate easily to various activity levels, as long as they are allowed to be with people as much as possible. Being a long breeder of a variety of puppies, we can attest to their absolute friendliness.
As a breed, the English Springer Spaniel is a medium sized sporting dog, and can weigh anywhere from 35-55 pounds at adulthood. They are typically healthy dogs that live happy lives that average about 10-14 years on average. Field bred Spingers have short hair and are generally more active than the show bred types. Both field bred and show bred Springer Spaniels have docked tails. The difference is, the field bred dogs tail is docked longer. The reason for this is that the tail is an important hunting tool It acts as an alert signal for the hunter.
The coat colors for English Springer Spaniels comes in either two combinations of black and white or liver and white. There does exist a tri-color combination in the breed where the coat is black, liver, and white, but it is much more rare and generally requires both the sire and dam to be tri-color also. They are also known for having a white blaze on their faces usually down the middle.
Bred to be natural hunter, English Springer Spaniels, have alot of energy so you can expect them to enjoy running aroung, sniffing out “game” and retrieving things for you. Springers are happy to spend all day outside with their masters, they love water and are not particularly sensitive to weather in general. Being a very old breed they have been popular dogs for a long, long time. These dogs are the oldest but best hunting breed around.
Hopefully, you can understand the reasons that we believe Springers are a good option for a variety of lifestyles. We certainly believe and have experienced how these loving animals can find a place in anyone’s heart and home.
Visit our Springer Spaniel site to see more English Springer Spaniel.
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A slight diversion and an alternate perspective…
Ellen: I have succumbed to internalizing the war on femininity. IMO men should receive training on how to deal with extreme horniness and their impulses to act with force. Viagra is a big breakthrough. How about a pill that tones the horn monster down a few notches? I doubt seriously that will ever happen.
I'm always a bit sensitive about remarks that might stereotype the masculine gender. There's two reasons for this. The first is that I've met a fair number of men who have been victimized — sometimes by men, sometimes by women, sometimes by Life itself. Also, in the aftermath of my own crisis, it was men who provided the core of my support. I have been fortunate to know some very good men as well as some very good women.
I've also been deeply influenced by Jungian thought. In the passage above you'd stated that you'd internalized the war on femininity. This reminded me of an article I'd read by Jungian analyst, Marion Woodman. Within Jungian psychology, every individual is considered to be comprised of both masculine and feminine characteristics. In this culture, there is a devaluing of the positive feminine due to the partriarchal/patrivalent nature of our culture but there is also a devaluing of the positive masculine. Marion Woodman offers up the following food for thought…
I see patriarchy as a power principle, wanting to get control over one’s self, another person or over nature. I think that men and women are equally damaged by this, because it sets up the perfectionist goals of ambition, competition, moving most efficiently. …
For me, patriarchy has become a parody of itself, because it’s gone into control. When the hunter hunts just for the joy of killing animals, or the joy of cutting down trees, or destroying nature, he is no longer a natural hunter. No, I would certainly agree that so long as any of those stay within natural bounds, they are the genuine masculine. …
But to get to the positive side of the patriarchy, most of us have to really go beyond a huge fear, the fear of being controlled by an individual or an institution or a cultural attitude. Because we expect judgment, and we expect somebody to use power on us. …
When I talk about patriarchy I’m talking about women as much as men, because many women are worse patriarchs than men. It’s not gender-related. It’s an attitude, of “I know what’s best for you. You’d better do it the way I tell you to.” I may not tell you, I may simply expect it.
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We might identify this “power” principle as a masculine characteristic but this same characteristic can be found in men and women, and either gender can be victimized by it. I find it's helpful to keep that in mind when we are speaking of the generalities surrounding victimhood.
I am not the psycho hunter (reserved for fishing), though I do like hunting some birds-love to eat them. Meat taste almost natural.
you havent been here long have you do you have any idea how many people ask this. Both of these animals are powerful and fierce carnivores. But scientists say that in a fight between a Bengal tiger and an African lion, there is a 90% chance that the tiger will win.
It is a well-known fact that tigers are the biggest cats in the world. Not only this, but tigers are noticeably more muscular, and better fighters. It is actually a myth that lions are better fighters than tigers, because tigers compete with each other for territory just as much as lions fight for a pride. Tigers also have experience fighting with many animals; Bengal tigers can easily kill large crocodiles and black bears, and Siberian tigers have been known to attack and kill huge adult brown bears. Tigers have been noticed as better fighters because they are more swift, agile, fierce, and have better eye-coordination. They have a stronger jaw force and paw-swipe. However, it is not true that tigers have longer fangs than lions. The skulls of these two cats have been compared, and usually their canines are about the same.
The term "King" comes from the fact that a lion's mane looks like a crown, and the fact that they rule a pride. A lion's mane can offer it protection from bites to the neck. This is especially helpful when facing hyenas, which have a very deadly bite. However, a tiger will not always go for the lion's neck, but instead will usually attack it's limbs, eyes, head, and face. And the difference between the two cats' lifestyles adds on to which is more intelligent: Living a solitary life results in the tiger being more cunning. The tiger also hunts larger prey than the lion. The largest prey that lions hunt is the African buffalo, a species of African cattle. Tigers, however, are excellent at hunting gaur, which is the largest type of cattle in the world. There are also differences in the way the two animals fight. Lions tend to stand on three legs, and use one paw to fight. Tigers normally balance on their hind legs and use both front paws to fight, giving them a huge advantage. Tigers also use "trickery", keep their heads back, and use well thought-out moves when fighting, while lions are known for blindly charging. Another important feature in how well the animals fight is the way their bodies are built. Lions are built more stiffly than tigers, and their bodies are more compact. Lions sometimes appear more muscular in the forelimbs, but tigers simply have more fur covering their muscles, so they are harder to see. Tigers also have more flexible muscles then lions.
The lion DOES have an advantage though: courage. Lions are braver, and less likely to back down from a fight. There have been reports of tigers submitting to lions when they meet in reserves, so they can avoid injury. But if the lion refuses to leave the tiger alone, than the tiger is probably going to end up victorious. Within the Bengal tiger scientists found a most disturbing ferocity. When it comes to the decision to fight, this cat attacks violently, most often winning in any fight against a lion.
In the end, the tiger's agility and accuracy comes out on top. 80% of experts agree that the tiger is the dominate cat. But not only National Geographic reporters say so. There are many polls on the internet where people can vote on who they think would win, and one can see that many more people bet on the tiger than the lion.
Never hurts to be polite but I suppose we weren't all brought up the same. Didn't you read the elderly lady's letter in the paper to which I refered.
Clinton Gage was attacked in the period after the feeding was outlawed. That is exactly the point the lady was making. When we used to go over to the island years ago we never had any problems with the dingoes because they were not starving. The same happens with any species that you starve, including humans. They get desperate and then they do desperate things.
When they were fed they would never think to attack the source of their food. Dogs are a lot smarter than that. Remember that dingoes are just that. Dogs, they are not bears or lions. They are not prime predators but domestic dogs gone wild.
The dingo was the first introduced domestic mammal to our environment. It came here with the first settlers, the aboriginals, x thousands of years ago. It was their domestic dog and its natural environment is in human camps. Of course some of them have gone wild, just as some of the domestic dogs that white man has introduced have gone wild. That does not mean that this is their natural state in our environment.
To equate the dingo with either lions or grizzlie bears is to misunderstand the nature of the dingo completely. The dingo is not even a natural hunter. It much prefers to eat scavange than to have to kill for its tucker. When we were young on the farm we would shoot roos to keep them off the pasture and the cane. The carcasses were always cleaned up by the dingoes and we never had a single calf attack during the entire period we were doing it. Why? Because the dingo is not a natural hunter he is a scavanger.
One of the ways to tell the difference between a wild dog attack and a dingo attack is always by the size of the animals attacked. Dingoes will only attack the very smallest of animals, like calves and kids, while wild dogs will bring down any animals. Why? Because the dingo is not a natural hunter. They prefer to scavenge.
The idea of feeding stations is good. There is extra cost involved of course. But it will not keep the dingoes away from the campsites. The ones that they have taken off the island and released on the mainland are known by their habits of approaching houses and people. Why would they do this in areas with plenty of potential food. Because they are more than used to the presence of humans and they will always gravitate towards them. It is natural for them to do this. They are after all only a domestic dog.
itz funny wen the natural hunter (african) iz the one hunted lmaoo
She’s a natural hunter and loves to maul anything that moves (and some things that don’t). Blankets, bugs, paper – all fair game!
There are many animals that eat meat, not all of them out run their prey. Some wait for their prey to come to them, some only eat prey that's already dead. Also some animals only eat fresh meat, while others only eat rotting meat. So you see out of all the animals that eat meat there are many different ways they do it. The animals all evolved differently. The human animal evolved with its brain to catch their prey. We can out think our prey, we don't need to out run or be stronger. Although we can out run and catch some of the animals we eat. I catch frogs and turtles (to name a few) with my bare hands. And the human animal can also eat raw meat, I eat raw meat at times. The Japanese eat a lot of their meat raw and have one of the longest life spans on the planet. Further more the human animal has been eating meat for tens of thousands of years and we digest it just fine. So to some it up, I am an omnivore. I eat and digest both plant and animal matter. Thank you.