We got Minsky just before Christmas. She is a 4 year old springer, but tiny. She is a rescue dog. She was a gun dog but had wrecked her cruciate and her owner couldn’t afford the surgery. She is doing rehab now for the second op, done correctly this time. She is brilliant. Happy to loaf about the house but LOVES being outside running about mad whatever the weather. Another month before she can be let off the lead again. She comes back instantly when called. She was well trained. As said above she can find mud in a desert, and until told not to one of her favourite delicacies was cow shit. It gave her really vile breath. I wouldn’t be without her now. On really bad days, I got made redundant a month ago, seeing her enthusiasm and zest for life perks me up no end. I love her to bits.
And she is great with our house cat, and the two ferals that live in the shed, and the sheep and horses in the fields next to us.