Looking for a Puppy

Cocker Spaniel Show type Puppies 

 

If you are looking for a very special addition to your family or a puppy suitable for the show ring,
then do contact me and I can hopefully point you in the right direction.  

The Cocker Spaniel is one of the most popular breeds - reflected by the number of puppies being bred and registered by the Kennel Club - the high proportion of registrations will include puppies bred by breeders of Working Cockers, breeders who have a genuine affinity for the breed but who do not wish to show or work their dogs - and "others"- so be careful; ask questions, carry out your research into the breed and make diligent enquiries.       Breeders should comply with recommended Health Tests to ensure that pups are free so far as is possible from hereditary disease and are well reared; if puppies are described as a "rare" colour - they are not rare but simply do not meet the Breed Standard.   

The recognised colours are:

 

 Solid colours:

Black; red; golden; liver (chocolate); black and tan; liver and tan. No white allowed except a small amount on chest.

Particolours:

Bicolours: Black and white; orange and white; liver and white; lemon and white. All with or without ticking
Tricolours: Black, white and tan; liver, white and tan
Roans: Blue roan; orange roan; lemon roan; liver roan; blue roan and tan; liver roan and tan

 

If you are unsure and need advice contact your local Cocker Spaniel Breed Club secretary.    

 

 

 

Cocker enthusiasts, who Show and breed,  are the guardians of the Breed Standard and willl breed "to type"; they will be on top of any on-going recognised
aspects of health issues in the Breed and they generally form the Breed Club membership, who will breed to improve their stock and
keep a puppy themselves for Show;  long gone are the big Show kennels with numbers of breeding bitches, consequently you will
find that breeders may have only one or two litters a year - and cannot guarantee the numbers of pups born.  
Licence requirements now imposed by Government/Local Authorities mean that many breeders with small show kennels, who breed an occasional litter,
will have decided to give up and save the bother.
 Breeders therefore receive a greater demand than there is a supply of puppies and many genuine enquiries are disappointed.

 

 

 

 The Cocker Spaniel Club website – www.thecockerspanielclub.co.uk - lists all the Regional Clubs in the UK together with their contact details.
Initially, you should carefully research the Breed before you start making enquiries for a puppy -
make those enquiries when you are actually ready to home a puppy and be prepared to wait;
Most kennels specialise in either solid or parti-colour, although some do have both.   Limit your colour requirement;  
(you will find there are more blue roans) but do not be too fixed on a colour - all cockers are delightful !; 

 

 

 

You should also allow for the fact that Breed Club secretaries receive many enquiries, be patient, persistent and prepared to travel.  
You will be able to rely upon any recommendation of a breeder via a Breed Club. 

 

 

 

The following photos are examples of solid and parti-colour puppies

   

 

 

 

 

 

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