Cocker Spaniels

Not that I'm an expert on puppies or anything but I do know that cocker spaniels used to be used for picking up pigeons when they were shot (the pigeons) by people and they would bring them back to them. They dribble sometimes because their mouth has an outline that is quite soft and it dribbles. They have this soft jaw line because when they carried the pigeons they didn't want to hurt them - or something like that anyway.

Don't be put off cocker spaniels though because they are easy to train and are good around children. Also my dad used to have one and it didn't dribble so I personally think it's a load of rubbish. They do need quite a lot of grooming however but still don't be put off. Someone told my mum this (after I was begging to have a cocker spaniel) and now she seems really put off by them.

Normally there first is between the ages 6-9 months
then after that every 6 months.

Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocker_spaniel:

"Cocker Spaniels coats can come in a variety of colors including black, liver, red and lemon in solids. There are also black and tan, and sometimes liver and tan as well as a variety of color mixtures of those solid colors including roans, roan and tans, tricolors and those solid colors with additional white markings. Some colors are genetically possible such as a lemon tricolor, and an orange shade also exists, but is considered to be red when appearing in a solid colored dog.[17]"

The most common types of English Cocker Spaniel are "blue roan" a very dark blue/black colour and "brown roan" a tan/brown colour. The colouring is usually intermixed with white hair - the colouring usually appearing as spots / circles of colour. The spots can be small (1cm) or large (across the whole rump of the dog).

Of course you can. If you have a dog, and you have some piriton, it is physically possible to give the latter to the former. The question you should be asking is, "Is it safe, for the dog, for you to give a dog piriton?". But you didn't ask that question, so I won't answer it.

Cockers are generally between 13 to 15" tall and 15 to 30 pounds. The smallest I have seen was 11" tall and 10 pounds at 2 yrs of age. Many people call smaller Cockers mini cockers but really there is no such thing. It is just a smaller Cocker. If you are looking for a small Cocker make sure both the parents are small because the larger size is dominant. You can not go by the puppy's size either. I have seen many times a puppy that was half the size of it's siblings catch up to them by adulthood. And have seen larger Cockers give birth to a whole litter of tiny puppies that were only 1.5 pounds at 4 weeks of age but all the puppies were around 30 pounds full grown. Smaller Cockers are not to the AKC Standards so you would never be able to show it.

I have a cocker spaniel with poodle mix dog, is it normal for them to get seizures?

There are but they're very rare it's usually to a pigmental mutation in the fur!

My 6 week old cocker spaniel pup weighs about 1.87kg :) He absolutely loves his food!

The answer to your question i believe is that the cocker spaniel. the word cocker came from the happy disposition and waging of the tail.

Puppies should get 5 meals a day and Adult dogs twice a day.

If you can't get to the groomer.......... Use a pair of safety scissors (they have a rounded tip).

A Cocker Spaniel's lifespan is from 9 to 13 years, but it can more depending whether its show-bred or work bred. Cocker Spaniel lifespan is between 9 and 15 years.

they are good pets i have one ,coker spaniels are very friendly and are also known as family dogs , they are very intelligent

and last thing how can mans best friend cannot be a good pet

The life span of an American Cocker Spaniel is 12 - 15 years.

Hi I have also wondered this today, as My cocker is 5 months and quite small with short hair, But today we met another cocker who was much bigger and like a fur ball lol, and only a month older at 6 months. My cocker spaniel is a pedigree from working sogs, I wondered if working dogs have a shorter coat? Yes they can! But you need to know if yours is a short haired or long. All puppies have short hair at first.

Some female dogs will undergo personality changes during this time, the most common changes being anxiety and irritability.

at least 36" for a female, and a 40" for a male. Go a size up if you want them to be able to move.

Really fast!! I've got a cocker Spaniel and we entered her in a race once in a dog competition. She beat a gray hound without even trying! :)

Most dogs will kill chickens if they are not trained not to chase and kill things.

Fairly big but still puppy small rather.

Most of the pups in the litter are 4-8 and are brwon,white,cream,red,or black. The average litter size is 6, although I have personally know litters from just 1 puppy to 9, although I understand some bitches have had 12!!!! There are actually 17 official colours varying from solid, roan, parti to tri!! This is believed to be one of the reasons why the cocker spaniel is so very popular.

Just after the turn of the 20th century, Alexander White of Spartanburg, South Carolina saw a small brown spaniel type dog wondering around after church service. The dog appeared to be a stray and he decided to take the dog home with him. He discovered that the dog had great hunting abilities. This stray had a wonderful bird sense. Alexander gave the dog to his hunting partner L. Whitaker Boykin. The dog was a male and he was given the name "Dumpy". The Boykin Spaniel breed has evolved from this one dog, with crosses to American Water Spaniels, Springer Spaniels, Pointers and Chesapeake Bay Retrievers. It is used as a hardy retriever of upland birds as well as water fowl. The Boykin Spaniel is popular in the Southern United States among bird hunters. Its state of origin is South Carolina USA and South Carolina has designated the Boykin Spaniel its official state dog. In July 2005 the Boykin Spaniel Club of Breeders Assoc. of America was named by AKC as the official parent club. The Boykin Spaniel was an AKC FSS (Foundation Stock Service) breed for many years. The BSCBAA submitted their paperwork to AKC to progress into the miscellaneous group and was approved on February 9th 2007 with the effective date of January 1st 2008. Breeders hope to move the breed from the AKC miscellaneous class to the sporting group sometime in the future.

Spaniels have been bred as hunting dogs in England for about 500 years.

The first identification of a "Cocker" Spaniel dates to the 1850's, though the breed was certainly around long before official breeding records were kept.