Lacey
"Painted Lacey"
Born 3/1999
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picture to see more of her .
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"No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses"
Author Herman Melville
Our Cocker Spaniels. They embody all the great qualities found in a wonderful cocker spaniel.
"The Cocker Spaniel is the smallest member of the Sporting Group. He has a sturdy, compact body...He is a dog capable of considerable speed, combined with great endurance. Above all, he must be free and merry, sound, well balanced throughout and in action show a keen inclination to work." That's our Lacey. She is very merry, she will wear you out playing with her toys. To Lacey, love is spelled "T-O-Y". She digs into her toy box looking for the exact toy she knows she wants to play with at that time. She is so cute watching her run around and jump. Be careful, she will boink (hit you with her nose) and then kiss you. One of the funniest things is if one of us is outside watering she will jump at the glass door or window wanting to get to the water. If you spray the window she jumps at the water being sprayed from the other side of the window and tries to bite at the water...oh well, we have to wash the windows..but it's so funny we can't resist. She is also a very sweet princess who just loves her people and has to be with us as much as is possible.
These 2 pictures are probably some of my favorites. She had only been home with us a few days. She has such a pretty profile.
Lacey was born 3/1999..
As a pup, Lacey would ride on the hay in the feed cart while we fed horses. (This is not very good quality as it's a scanned pic of a Polaroid.)
Since
Lacey is black and white I thought I should introduce her to our black and
white Paint Horse. As you can see, she was a bit nervous...she had
never seen such a big "dog".Lacey's registered name is "Painted Lacey"..a play on words for "a painted lady" because of her beautiful coloring and because we raise Paint Horses.
"Mom, I'd rather not". Now when given the chance she runs all over. She loves the trimmings from the horses hoofs.
The
picture in the tent is Lacey, summer 2002, when we were camping...She would
just decide she was going to put herself in bed. It was pretty funny,
every night she would do this. I wish I had a picture of her one night
she was at the foot of the bed totally asleep on her back with all 4 legs in
the air, snoring. I guess she felt very
safe. :-) Lacey even went to the rodeo with us and sat on Sharon's lap
and watched everything.
Lacey
was very much a "river dog" on our vacation to the Trinity
River. She loved the river..we were totally amazed at how she took to
the water. As we would walk to the river the closer we got the harder
she would pull to get to the river. She loved chasing rocks we would
throw in the water and then the resulting water splash.
The picture above on the left cracks us up..she looks like she doesn't have legs. That one picture was taken July 2003.
Lacey was very safe at all times...she was on a long line leash.
