Discovered through an advert in Horse & Hound one rainy Thursday Morning, Lancer was 'rescued' from a tiny house in the centre of Milton Keynes where he was driving his owner crazy with his over abundance of energy and growing unreliability! Cooped up all day with only short lead exercise and a tiny child for company was proving no life for a young spaniel.
We took him for his first real walk - off his lead, in the woods - and he didn't know what to do! We had to teach him what freedom was. But always he ran in semi circles, ever looking back to us to check that he was not doing anything wrong.
"He won't go in the car" the lady said when we fetched him... "You'll have to tie him in". He didn't hesitate .....In he jumped, sat down and never looked back!
We took him for his first real walk - off his lead, in the woods - and he didn't know what to do! We had to teach him what freedom was. But always he ran in semi circles, ever looking back to us to check that he was not doing anything wrong.Which he never did. Ever. He very quickly acquired the title of Bestest Dog in All The World (courtesy of our young niece) and, wherever he went, rapidly became everyone's favourite. Throughout all his years there was never a snarl or a snap out of him (except if he was told to get out of the car before it was safely back in its garage!) and one of his favourite things was carrying cushions around the house. He'd rush to grab one whenever anyone came to visit - or if he went to anyone else's house.
When we moved to RectoryReserve he developed a new passion: Poultry. If ever a duck or a chicken found itself outside the pen, Lancer would be there, quick as a flash to retrieve it and return it to us to put back in the pen - with never a single feather ruffled. When asked, in our absence, to "give" a duck up to someone staying at the house at the the time, Lancer looked at her, turned and walked very purposefully back to the duck pen before handing over the duck to be returned to its proper place!
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tterly his favourite place was under a large bay tree at the side of the drive where he could watch everyone come and go, and if he wasn't there he was under a yew tree in the yard watching what was going on.
tterly his favourite place was under a large bay tree at the side of the drive where he could watch everyone come and go, and if he wasn't there he was under a yew tree in the yard watching what was going on.Sadly he developed sacro lumbar disease following a trapped nerve in his back and it became clear last week that his time with us was not how he was wanting to spend it.
He was one of a kind. We all miss him.
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