Cocker Spaniel

I was suffering from mild depression and my GP recommended a dog! I don't think for one moment he thought I would go ahead and buy a puppy. After convincing my husband that a dog would be good for the family, we got a beautiful black english show type cocker spaniel. Hard work at first, just like bringing a new baby home but it's a decision we never regret. She is lovely with people and other dogs and has added a new dimension to family life, getting us all off the sofa and into the fresh air. We all love her to bits and the GP was right. She has helped lift my depression and She makes a great running companion - I have only just taken this up, thanks to her. If you're looking for a very affectionate breed, you can't go wrong with a cocker spaniel.

To cut a very long story short, I brought a 5 week old blind cocker spaniel home one day. It changed our lives for ever! Our three cats got used to the situation very quickly and he was not top dog where they were concerned. We had nelson for a glorious 7 years, my children were always referred to as number 1 son, number 2 son and Nelson was favourite son (the cats are all girls btw). We lost him to a siezure and it broke our hearts. We did the "never again" thing. We hadn't planned Nelson so thought we'd be able to go back to just having cats. It lasted 6 months before we admitted to each other we couldn't wait to get another cocker. We talked and not wanting to put too much pressure on any one puppy, we had too! A year later and our lives are back to living for our 9 month old dogs Bert & Earnie, they just bring the family together to play, walk or just watch them together. Would recommend a cocker to anyone, young or old.

We have a black and tan part working and part show cocker girl. She's now 18 weeks old and I wouldn't be without her. Yes she has never ending energy and yes she is into everything. But boy I get so much love and company from her it's unreal. I am disabled and am at home all day until mu Husband gets home so now I have a little imp to look after. She will happily spend all day in the garden investigating and running round in circles. I've never laughed so much. We have fallen in love so much with this breed that we have now put a deposit on a blue roan show girl who is 6 weeks old. It will be mayhem I'm sure with two youngsters but I can honestly say that the good points outweigh the little bad points without a doubt. One thing to remember though is that they are very strong willed, and you have to be very firm with rules or they will try and dominate you. I couldn't imagine being without them now.

We've two cocker spaniels, (one show, and one working) they bring love friendship and enjoyment 24/7. Freckle(chocolate and white show cocker) is 4years old and she is loyal and very happy and has bundles of energy which she looks using up whilst chasing a ball, going for long walks, investigating hedgerows and rabbit holes, swimming and playing with her step sister Ebony. Ebony is our 2 year old (black working cocker) She like Freckle enjoys nothing more that a good walk and rumble in the countryside and of course she loves swimming. Ebony also enjoys watching television, she loves to watch All nature programmes which show animals but her favourite is You've Been Framed. She runs into the lounge as soon as she hears either David Attenborough or Harry Hill, shes even started now to recognize certain adverts!!!!!clever?

The first year whilst intially training are the hardest but the rewards are truly enormous.

We had our (working) PB cocker for 2 years before our divorce, he went with my ex, lovely beautiful dog, full of love. Was a one person dog (me as i was only one to walk him) and so soppy with my kids.

However---- he totally exhausted me! I took him over fields sometimes 2 hours a day, plus ball throwing,toy hiding in back garden and i could not believe the endless energy, from day one he NEVER slept (in the day) i swear he had ADHD im not even joking! not a quiet family dog i was led to belive he would be, at all! Training?? 2 years of classes, books, home trainer visits he still would not walk nice on a leash, and recall? Lol! Ok til he saw a rabbit then off he would go for half hour! The boy never ever stopped, until 9pm when he would just collapse at the end of the day!

Also the shedding! OMG i never knew how much they shed! He was short haired but i was having to hoover 2x a day, he would have been a smart dog but just didnt have the concentration to learn any training, crazy doesnt even begin to explain him!

He`s now 6 and apparently no calmer! (despite being neutered at under a year) ex tried changing his diet but no help, he now goes "beating" in the fields at weekends with exes shooting pals, but could not be trained to retrieve as just not obedient enough!

I adored him and was more upset him going than the ex, but i would not recommend a working generation spainel for families.

I now have a lakeland/jack russell who although lively is more managable!And does at least get tired after exercise!

We have just lost our golden cocker named Duffy. We only had him 3years, we took him on as we had just lost our blue roan dog of 16 years. Duffy,s owners were emigrating to Australia and were going to have him put down unless they found a home for him. We took him on 1 month after losing our Clover cocker. Duffy was 13 when we met him, ofcourse he wasn,t the same but we got to know each other over the past 3 years and we do miss him so, out of the blue he had a seizure last week 29th December ,10, then 24 hours after another then another 4 within 2 hours of each attack, we had to make that awful decision of saying goodbye.He was 16 and 3 months old. We have always had cockers 4 in all, they have all been different but all have characters of their own, we have been lucky as they have all lived past 16 years. We are now looking for a new friend to adopt to replace the empty void we feel, not a puppy just a cocker who needs a loving home, God bless my Duffy.

My black working cocker has been a angel since day one, hes now 3 were together pretty much 24/7 which makes us very close, love him more than anything! hes my world, hes quite shy with most dogs but will play with his friends out on walks its all about the getting in bushes and having a bounce about! other than me hes not interested n any other dogs or people, he could go for days i sometimes think! but at home hes happy to snooze next to his mumma, and we just got springer pup which he as expected is a saint with! COCKERS RULE! x

I have a golden and white cocker spaniel she's lovely but then she starts to growl and bite at just 10 weeks old.

I am scared incase she turns on my when's she's older can anyone help i play with her to build the bond but she can just nasty can anyone help.

Thankyou

I have a cocker spaniel who is golden with white but at 10 weeks old she growls and trys to bite me i don't know what to do my training teacher said grab her by her scruff and say no.

But she just carrys on again i play with her and do what i do with my other dog i'm so scared she may turn when's she older can anyone help me please

Thankyou xx

We have a 5 month old brown roan working cocker as a pet.Cute,a pain in the neck at tmes as always on the go, with his head in the bucket looking for food or annoying his "brother" the spinone.Great fun and gorgeous he is a mums boy all right.Great nature nothing gets to him.Kids love him.