MR COCKER

My Life

It was just about a year ago that I came to live here at Irish's Clover Leaf Kennel. I wandered in one day and took a look around. I seen an old horse that looked like he might want a friend besides the Chesapeakes he would visit with. His name is Shiloh and he just turned 29 years old. He was willing to share his grain and his shelter so I decided to stay.

My Hobbies & Interests

My days are pretty laid back. I start my day before sunrise crowing for at least a half hour. I peck around the ground and tease the Chesapeakes. I used to be able to shimmy under the fence and get up close to the kennels and really drive the dogs crazy. Well now I can't do that because Gary and Dorene put the fence back to ground level. Now I can only get within 15 feet of the kennels, but I still make the dogs crazy, so I'm happy. They especially don't like it when I decide to take my dust bath right there and get flopping around. I go to bed early so I can start another day bright (or should I say dark) and early.

Recent Adventures

Today on July 25th 2007 I had quite an adventure. Here is what happened. It is my habit during the day to sneak into the back yard where the dog kennels are. Dorene has not discovered yet where I am coming in. The dogs normally are not in the kennels during the day because they are out in the big run area. I like to hang out in Ben's kennel. Well today, Dorene left early this morning and did not put the dogs out to the big run. A little after lunch, Ben's kennel appeared to be empty so I went in. I was doing my usual wandering around in there when all of a sudden Ben came out of his house and almost had chicken for lunch. I managed to scoot out under the gate. That was a close one. It's a good thing that I didn't go into one of the other kennels of the smaller Chessies, they would have had me. Ben is 100 lbs so he can't fly out of his house as fast as the girls that are only about 65 lbs. That's the second time I was almost lunch. Josey did get ahold of me last year. With help from Dorene, I managed to get away with just a few minor injuries. That time though, I was were I belonged and it was the Chessie that got into my area.

My Favorite Places

Chessie Central