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Adventures of Nick & Ted Age 74 months

I have been writing articles for fieldsports magazines for well over 20 years and the biggest challenge is coming up with something new and interesting to write about every month. I’ve been sharing my trials and tribulations with my cockers, Ted and now Percy, for nearly six years and some months I really do struggle. Fortunately, this wasn’t one of them.

I’ll start from where I finished last month. Regular readers will have seen that our little orange-and-white bitch, Dott, had come in season and we were planning to mate her to Percy. It was part of the agreement with her breeder that he wanted

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