eddieh
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Tegen and me saying helloHello all
I've waited for the kids to grow up before getting another dog and finally, a few months ago, we got Tegen, our Brittany bitch. Gorgeous dog, complete idiot ( I thought my Irish Setter was a loony!!!!), only wants to love people (and dogs). I suggested we should name the next one Duracell. The idea of "the next one" didn't go down too well  . I've a feeling I'll be lurking and, posting for refuge, sympathy and help on numerous occasions in the future.
Tegen will say hello properly when I get some half decent piccies.
Eddie
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johnhod
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Hi eddie and welcome
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Mugi
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Hi Eddie and welcome.
IMHO one is not enough although demon pup may well change my mind as his teeth are sharp.
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Ghilliegumdrop
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Hi, what is your pups breeding? Where abouts in Cambridgeshire as I am in Royston. Welcome to the board.
Jan
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Liz
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Hi Eddie and welcome from me and my gang!
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Annie as admin
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Hi Eddie and Tegen welcome (unusual name - what does it mean?)
Anne
ps have you joined the Brittany Club yet? Forms online, ask people here to sponsor you, then send form and £7 to Barbara, Membership Sec.
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Lin Dyke
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Hello Eddie and Tegen, welcome to the forum. I used to have Irish Setters before downsizing to the Brittany. Apparently there is a link between the two breeds (see TAILS section, tailed or tailless...page 6 question from Victoria to Liz) That would explain a lot then
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Lin Dyke
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Ps. There will be a next one, they are addictive 
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eddieh
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| Ghilliegumdrop wrote: | Hi, what is your pups breeding? Where abouts in Cambridgeshire as I am in Royston. Welcome to the board.
Jan |
We got Tegen from a bloke to the north of Harrogate. He works her mum in his job as a gamekeeper and has no affix. You have to go back two generations before finding any dogs I have found any other reference to, they are Bestobel Javron and Fleur de Giraup and are the parents of Tegens maternal grandmother. Dad is Brittyhill Vagabond.
I wonder if we have been cruel in subjecting Tegen to a sharp change in atmospheric pressure having brought her from the moorlands of Yorkshire and can now sometimes be seen walking her at (I believe)the lowest point in England, Holme Fen, a few miles south of our Peterborough home.
| Quote: | Hi Eddie and Tegen welcome (unusual name - what does it mean?)
Anne |
The website I found it on claims that it is Cornish and means "Pretty one". I don't know if this is true but it does work quite well in the Tigger song if you replace the word Tiggers with Tegens. We couldn't find a Breton name we all agreed on and thought that Cornish is the next best thing. I suppose somebody is going to tell me now that it's a Victorian creation from a book about fairies (or piskies?) or something.
| Quote: | | I used to have Irish Setters before downsizing to the Brittany. Apparently there is a link between the two breeds (see TAILS section, tailed or tailless...page 6 question from Victoria to Liz) That would explain a lot then |
Come to think of it Holly , my Setter, was quite good at reshaping the furniture, so I suppose there's not much in it. I take it the "Devil makes work for idle paws" syndrome is at least as strong in the Brittany character.
Thanks for all you replies.
Eddie
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Ghilliegumdrop
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I believe that spelt Tegin it was the name of Genghis Khan so heaven help you when she really gets going. Ghillie is a Brittyhill and I'm sure that Vagabond is her brother out of a different litter. All I can say is watch the washing machine!!
 Jan
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Annie as admin
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Nope, Vagabond has a different mother - Titile van't beikensbos. Ghill's Mum is Pastiche - same Daddy though!
Annie
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eddieh
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Tegen is now 1 year old, a beautiful little girl, unlike any Brittanys (what is the plural of a region?) I have seen and testing our dominance. Is this usual at this age?
Could somebody tell me how to a post a picture on this forum.
Ta
Eddie
PS I did not mean that other Brits aren't beautiful. Just that mine seems to be different 
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Tache
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Hi eddieh, Bretons i think!
Jan what does Ghill do with the washing!?? Tache who is ner niece used to steal dirty washing and chew it, is it a family thing!!? 
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Annie as admin
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No, that's a Brittany thing Mine have been known to nick knickers off the line and go off round the field with them! 
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Ghilliegumdrop
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I taught Ghillie to empty the washing machine as I had a bad back, it went very well, her taking things out one item at a time waiting for a cat biscuit and then getting another item out. Then one night she must have been thinking about this and realized she could open the machine door. I came down in the morning to find her sitting on a pile of wet washing looking very smug waitng for a handfull of biscuits:twisted: Since then I have to do the wash during the day and bang goes the cheap electricity rate Now Merlin is another matter, I wash small things like my gloves...put them on the radiator to dry, turn round and there he is with a silly grin and a glove in his mouth. Put it back, turn around and there he is again. He never chews them but I have now started to put stuff in the airing cupboard to dry. only problem is I forget where I've put them and cannot find anything  He's also taken to lurking around corners with a teddy bear in his mouth There are two on my aunt's bed and one on mine, and every morning here he comes....... LURKING.....
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guy
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Eddie, to post a picture - you will see at te bottom of the message box a blue underlined 'attach file' click on that and find te picture you want on your computer and teh forum software does the rest. Please not however very large pictures should be resized first, file names with & in them modified to remove the &.
Welcome aboard - look forward to seeing your baby.
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