Temps hovering near zero, bitter winds, a foot of snow,and the Cocker Spaniels keep begging to go out!
Dachshunds ain’t that stupid…they curl up on fuzzy blankets and avoid the crazy weather.
I love my Cocker Spaniels and don’t have a clue why they were dumped by the former owners. Well behaved, stay in the yard, and the cats consider them buddies.
Mine too! The collie and the cocker are in and out. The lab and hound…curled up on their beds.
Cockers want out. Basset Hound stays at the top of the stairs and says “Nope, not for me”. I think this wisdom is part of the reason she’s lived to be 20 years old.
My first Cocker adored the snow! Maxwell, not so much. He’d really prefer not to get his paws wet, if at all possible, let alone cold :lol: Although, I think he’s got a little Poodle in him, so…
I’m farm sitting for someone with 4 Cockers, plus two of my own, a visiting Pomeranian, and the person in the tenant house on the farm is a gun dog trainer, with 5 Cockers, plus a lab. And the farm has a Great Pyr., No one wants to stay in!
The trainer actually took the dogs out training yesterday. The good news is that they will snuggle, I had three in bed with me last night!
I’ve wanted a Cocker Spaniel ever since I read the book Champion Dog Prince Tom as a child— I think that was the title. Ideal dogs, aren’t they? Shhhh don’t tell my other dogs 
There’s just something about a Cocker
Such sad little faces and so much floof!
ManyDogs I agree…they are ideal dogs. Love the little wiggle butts.
I loved Champion Dog Prince Tom too! And the woman who is farm sitting with me got her start with that book too! She has bred and trained some of the most decorated hunting and field trial cocker spaniels since the 1960s.
Oooooo Doberpei, does she have a website?
Red and Black ( yes, we are very inventive with nicknames) just came in and put big floppy paws on my leg, since we haven’t seen each other in at least ten minutes!
Do cockers shed? I currently have a cocker/poodle mix who is really the best of both dogs. No shedding, coat easy to deal with, and the best personality of any dog. He had 7 homes before he was 2 and has TONS of energy. Love love love that little dog and wonder if he fell more to the cocker or poodle side.
He does not care for going out when it’s cold and prefers to stay on his bed unless you mention the word W-A-L-K.
I’ve had a cocker in the house for the last 27 yrs. (not the same one, obviously!) Love them. Great personalities. I have a black one now, as does my brother.
Mine shed, but not too bad. The JRT and Doberman seemed to shed a lot more.
They shed, but not in the pervasive way short haired dogs do. And if you brush them every few days it’s really not a big deal. I think mine has a little poodle in him, he’s really curly, and I don’t think he sheds hardly at all onto the furniture/carpet.
My English Cocker sheds much more than my American Cocker spaniel.
ManyDogs - this is her website http://www.tjmadisongundogs.com The website is just sort of getting started. She comes down to Maryland from Maine in the winter to keep training.
Cockers are the BEST 
(I have 3!)
Mine actually hate going out when it is cold! But I had one a few years ago that LOVED playing out in the snow.
I hadn’t thought about Prince Tom in years. My first purebred dog was a cocker spaniel because of that book.
Sadly, I didn’t know about puppy mills back then and that’s where we got ours. He died of an enlarged heart at just a couple months of age. Then his replacement attacked my little brother and had to go. 
But that was back in the day when cockers were wildly popular, on the order of poodles or whatever today. And they were known for having lots of problems as a result of bad breeding practices. I think things have changed a lot in the intervening half-century or so.
I still think of the breed very fondly.
