Jillfarm Springers - Tessa Salmon

Tessa Salmon
Hi I'm Tessa and I was the first one born!	Here I am again, ain't I cute!	Here I am with some of my brothers and sisters!
And here I am in my first bath.	Here I am near the time I met my family.	I like riding in the car, I get buckled up just like my human brother and sister. Off to the cottage I go!
ready.......	set .......	go!!!!
and go!!!	I guess I will come back....	I like swimming.
...and I like the boat!!	My dad is real special and he loves me.	..so does my sister.
..I love yogurt...... and cake but they don't give me that too often..... we all like cake!!!! (hint hint!!!)	Here is my human type sister, Megan. I love cuddling her.	Here I am with my human type brother, Owen. I really love him too.
..we play soccer	I had to wear a t-shirt when I had my surgery. It was okay though.	It is fun on the ice! I love the snow too, but hard to swim in that!!!
Most of all, I am sooo happy I have a family that loves me, and I love them all too!!!! BYE!!!

Hello all,

I would have to say that Tessa's first trip to the cottage was an unprecedented success. Only one (puppy) accident in her crate and one (take off to the next cottage to see "Chewy" the black lab) losing. She travels so well in the car that we won't have to keep her in her crate anymore. We stopped off at Pet Smart Friday night and purchased a doggy seatbelt (among other things) and she now rides between Megan and Owen in the back seat. She is calm and usually goes to sleep before they do. She seems to have bonded to our "pack" instantly and can't bear the thought of us splitting up. Here are the pictures, I will let you be the judge of if this dog is having a good time or not...

She is laying by my leg as I write this, dreaming puppy dreams of (probably) running around in circles with a dead fish in her mouth as the rest of her pack tries to get it from her. (her legs are twitching)

Duane Salmon May 23/07

Tessa is loving the snow. She had a wonderful time with the first snow fall. She spent most of her walk that morning with her nose to the ground trying to extract frozen sticks and eat the snow.

Up at our cottage she is free to run as much as she likes. The lake was frozen over and she had a wonderful time running and skidding after sticks. She was so exhausted she did not come to get us up until 8:00 am the next day! She loves to bound around in the snow. The Springer in her sure comes out as she jumps all over the place.

Tessa goes out every day with a dog walker and has made some fast friends. It is funny to watch. On days when she does not go out (i.e. week ends) she will sit up on our bed looking out the window (when we are in the city). If she sees a van park she gets very excited. We figure she thinks it is the dog walker. Once when we walked up his street she picked out his van from amongst a few others and refused to leave it for several minutes! Duane Nov. 07

Yes - Tessa likes yogurt and cheese. She knows when we are having bagels
with cheese on Saturday mornings and sits beside me waiting for a handout.
The children have trained her with cheese rewards! Lisa Dec.07

Duane and Lisa Salmon and children