Hopping Dog Productions 'Super Cooper'

23/10/2023

Super Cooper has reached 800 followers! Thank you for your continued support. Keep sharing, if a dog has intermittent limping and/or pain, it could be cancer, get an X-ray.

22/07/2023

Super Cooper has reached 700 followers! Thank you for your continued support. Take care of your flatties and if they have any intermittent limping ask your vet for an X ray and share his story xx

14/05/2023

I have reached 600 followers! Thank you for your continued support. 🙏🤗🎉 and I love that you still follow SUPER Cooper!

02/11/2022

Hi and welcome to new followers 🐾. If you know someone whose flatcoat has lost a leg or may lose a leg I am always happy to talk about our experiences with Cooper. And if your dog has intermittent lameness please *politely but firmly insist* your vet does an Xray to check for osteo or histiocytic sarcoma.

30/01/2022

Cooper says "if your flattie has intermittent limping please INSIST your vet does an X-ray to rule out cancer, if they decline, ask a different vet - it is BETTER TO KNOW EARLY". Lynn agrees - it is sad that all these years after Cooper died I am still having conversations with owners who discover cancer after months of 'arthritis' discussions. Please ask your vet to X-ray just in case and help them by sharing information on cancer in our breed. https://www.thefield.co.uk/gundogs/flatcoated-retriever-flatcoats-fatal-flaw-39355

Supplanted by labradors in the line, the flatcoated retriever still has its fans says David Tomlinson. But its susceptibility to disease must be addressed

19/12/2021

Lovely memory popped up from 2014, Cooper on the High Peak Trail in between rides in his buggy 😘

18/09/2021

This is my other job! Deluxe holiday cottage!

"With a real ’wow’ factor this award-winning semi-detached rural barn conversion is in the 900 ft high hamlet of Uppertown in the village of Bonsall. It is a delightful and picturesque place for a relaxing getaway or a walkingcycling holiday in the Peak District National Park. Bailey’s Barn da...

08/05/2021

Hello to Super Cooper's new followers! I'm intrigued... How did you find his page and what made you follow it? Video of half-flatcoat Roo and my daughter's spaniel puppy's tail!

26/02/2019

Thanks and hello to all the new likes! Cooper would be wagging his tail madly to meet you all!

06/11/2018

I'm sure Cooper would approve! This is Roobarb (Roo), aged 12 weeks. Half flattie and half working lab. She's a sweetie but naughty too. Already knows 'sit' and hoovers up all the food on offer.

24/10/2018

We may have news in the next day or so about a new member of the family joining us 😀😀🐾

03/09/2018

It's 3rd September and coming up to the time of the year Cooper died. Immediately before, we were in Devon making lovely memories, pushing Cooper across the beach and taking lots of buggy-friendly walks and places to visit. One of those was an afternoon spent with new and old online FCR friends. Facebook has presented me with some fabulous photos to look at today. It is a lovely memory for me.

I was considering not reposting, because of various relationship changes. However I decided that this is all about Cooper, our dogs connect, don't divide us. I will not mention this again, nor explain, life's too short!

So here they are, think lovely thoughts, be nice to each other and love your dogs. Especially if they, or you, have a cancer diagnosis.

30/06/2018

Cooper always lay in full sun if he could!

27/05/2018

We are excited to have 'Cooper' a flattie no less, coming to stay at Bailey's Barn - cosy Peak District holiday cottage with a real 'wow' factor in September. Triple thrilled that he was named after our boy and Cooper will be coming to where Cooper was born and bred :):):)

11/03/2018

At Crufts getting a flattie fix ❤❤❤❤❤

10/12/2017

The snow outside, and a friend's post, reminded me of a situation we had at home a few years ago. We were in the living room, cosy and warm, with the log fire burning, watching TV. Outside was a fair amount of snow and some pretty coloured lights, part buried by the snow gave the outside of the house a lovely gentle glow. I sit with my back to the window and the curtains were open despite possible draughts (old sash windows are beautiful but leaky as heck). Gordon sat opposite me on the other sofa occasionally looking up to the window behind me. "The security light keeps going on" he said. We have a PIR light that reacts to movement and comes on, but switches itself off after a few minutes. He'd noticed it coming on a few times and wondered what was setting it off.

We both turned to look, just in time to see a pair of fluffy black ears disappear as Cooper jumped up to p*er in at the window and at us, enjoying the warm, while he had been left outside in the snow after his last p*e break......

06/11/2017

So many lovely dogs lost in the last few weeks. What do people think about memorial candles? I have a friend who adapts standard candles for people (with writing/dates on) and I make my own hand-coloured candles. I wondered if people would appreciate black or liver candles for their FCRs.

30/10/2017

Dogs Today Magazine

Tee hee

Now that's a way to greet trick-or-treaters!

Source: https://youtu.be/5pPKE8cLKlo

13/03/2017

Giggle for today!

12/01/2017

Hopping Dog Productions 'Super Cooper''s cover photo

07/10/2016

Everyone...meet Freddie. He's the new custodian of Cooper's supermobile, along with his minder Yvonne.

18/09/2016

Doggyhut secondhand medium dog buggy and bicycle trailer

Cooper's super buggy is now for sale on eBay, please share if you think you may know someone who needs one. Thank you!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/131943097004?

Doggyhut secondhand medium dog buggy and bicycle trailer in Pet Supplies, Dog Supplies, Transport & Travel | eBay

12/09/2016

A year ago yesterday Cooper left us with a lick and a look of love. I learned how generous people are with their time, sending us messages of support but also memories of our boy. The ones that really stick are those who said he inspired them. That's so great. Meanwhile I've been introduced to 3 or 4 people facing amputation decisions and had the honour of speaking with them about Cooper's recovery story. We are very grateful that we had over a year with him and for the love and support of you all.

03/08/2016

Hello Cooper-mates. It's so nice to see people still joining this page to learn about our lovely super Cooper. Welcome- and i hope the stories amuse, entertain or inform you.

21/06/2016

Four years ago I bent down to pick up the tennis ball and Coop came in from the side, crashing into the corner of my eye with the top of his head.

I went to hospital but no lasting damage, other than a spectacular black eye. Cooper was fine!

Dangerous things, tennis balls.

21/06/2016

Last year's Eroica Festival brought us out for ice cream, still makes me smile!

20/06/2016

I've just spent 3 days at a festival trade stand with a lady I meet after Cooper died; we know each other only through work.

During the 3 days lots of dogs passed by or visited the stand and we got to taking about dogs.

I told her something of Cooper's last year and how I'd been buoyed up by lovely comments from FB friends.

I also said what a handsome dog he was. And she said: "Oh I saw a really stunning dog in Bakewell the other day. It was just like a red setter but completely and utterly black all over."

"Did it look like this? (Showing FB photos)?"

"Yes!!!"

"You just met your first flatcoat."

23/05/2016

I think its time that Super Cooper's Coopermobile helped another dog. Browse the page for videos and photos and message me if you want to know the size etc. He weighed about 27kgs when he had 4 legs. Back length was about 22-23 inches. Any offer welcome and I will ship to any address in any country if you pay the shipping. Love Lynn.

23/05/2016

Message received today - an astonishing and lovely gift: "Dear Lynn, I hope you don't mine me messaging but it is sometime since I have connected to Facebook ... I realised I missed Cooper stories and have looked you up. I just wanted to say I though he was just a Joy and inspiration, everything that makes Flatties special."

10/05/2016

Just found the Kennel Club's Mate Select service which allows you to check the inbreeding coefficient of a proposed pairing. Interestingly you can check the COI of any registered dog. Cooper's COI was/is over 16% against a breed average of 7.4%.
Cooper - Lathkill Back Number, cancer agreed 10.
Tate - the puppy with epilepsy who died at 5 months was Torwood Action Ace. COI 9%.
Ghillie - our first flatcoat was Narinja Misinterpret and is not listed, she died of pancreatic cancer at almost 13.
All bought from the same breeder. I wonder if there is any correlation on health? Do any breeders on here know?

03/05/2016

Found a few I don't think you have seen :), at least not recently!

11/04/2016

The Shadow Campaign // Sun Dog

Fabulous

In the snow-capped peaks overlooking Bariloche, Argentina, Refugio Frey is the only protection from the ravaging winds, drawing wanderers of all sorts to its doors.…

06/04/2016

Went into this shop today - in Windermere UK - and noticed that the gentleman owner had a flat coated retrievers polo shirt on. As you can imagine we then had a lovely chat! I told him all about Super Cooper and he told me all about his flatcoats. I wonder if he is on Facebook?

01/04/2016

We are off to the Lakes for a few days, Windermere area in case you live near there. Cooper never visited Cumbria but Bailey is going to! Our house sitters may have to wring us out when we get back.

13/03/2016

This brought a belly laugh with it! One year ago. Enjoy watching!

Well that's a first - Cooper just chased a ginger cat up a tree - scared the life out of me - he rushed out of the back door snarling like the very Devil, followed by little bro Bailey. The poor cat is now stranded up the tree, watch this space, future updates may involve Firemen or Husbands With Long Ladders (not being sexist, I'm scared of heights and he's a rock climber).

11/03/2016

I'm coming to crufts! Woke up this morning and thought it's such a lovely day, I can be in the hall by noon from home. So. .. look out for me around then! I'll be heading straight for the flatties of course. Comment below if you are there and I will come to find you xx

10/03/2016

Unchained

look at these sculptures. i think the technique would lend itself well to flat coats, don't you? http://www.niritlevav.com/unchained/

The series “Unchained” includes real-sized sculptures of dogs, made out of recycled bicycle parts, mostly chains. Despite the use of metal, they have a gentleness and sensitivity to them. Levav manages to capture the dogs in moments and expressions that make it hard to believe they are made of scrap…

07/03/2016

SFGATE

Touching and authentic

Eric weighed over 300 pounds, had type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and his doctor told him he would be dead in 5 years unless he changed. They suggested a dog. Eric went to the Humane Society Silicon Valley and said he wanted an obese, middle-aged dog, so they would have something in common. What happened next transformed their lives.

01/03/2016

Been looking through old photos today....

01/03/2016

Hopping Dog Productions 'Super Cooper'