Usually, when someone has a problem with their dog, it’s a mix of several inter-related issues. This isn’t the case with Danny. Danny, just six months old, is near perfect in my opinion! The lady wants to do her very best by him and there is one area that worries Read more…
They have nine-year-old Bingley and puppy Bumble, 4 months. Both are Show Cocker Spaniels. Are they going to have to make the heart-breaking decision to give up on the puppy? Bingley rejects the puppy I can’t describe the situation any better than the lady in her initial message to me: Read more…
There really is something so endearing about a Cocker Spaniel! Cockers haven’t been put on this earth to be ignored. My own Cocker, Pickle, is totally different to Toby in that he’s not a guarder, but he, too, can be a handful. He is a working Cocker and keeps himself, Read more…
Beautiful Archie – a mix of Field and Show Cocker Spaniel – has seldom needed to be walked on lead as they live in a country area and he never runs off. Now his young lady wishes to take him on holiday with her and needs him to be walking on lead without nearly strangling himself.
Lexie is eighteen months old. It seems that the show dog didn’t have a normal home life. Her new family of six picked her up about four weeks ago, and it became evident that apart from ring craft she hadn’t been for walks – with traffic, people and dogs, nor Read more…
Then very unfortunately to my mind, they enlisted the help of a dog trainer. They advocated spraying water at her, shaking a bottle of stones at her, shouting at her, intimidation and domination. The wrong kind of training. Already more sensitive than the other dogs, Autumn is now really nervous.