Jarvis Cocker – don’t you love it! Jarvis is a 17-month-old working Cocker Spaniel. His need for constant action is giving his young gentleman owner some trouble. To quote the young man: ‘He has no fear, took a sock off my nephews foot and swallowed it. Stealing food from table, Read more…
Jumping to conclusions If we jump to the wrong conclusions as to what’s behind a behaviour, it stands to reason the behaviour’s unlikely to improve. When the dog does something we want to change – like digging the carpet – we should be dealing with the underlying cause. When the Read more…
When hyped up and wild, Nellie needs help. She has a need. Putting a lid on it merely makes it erupt somewhere else. They want something acceptable for her to vent her wildness.
(Online consultation) Little Lexi is a sweet 19-month-old Working Cocker Spaniel with a beautiful loving nature. Very soon after they got her at 4 months of age, she was exhibiting OCD by fixating for hours on the sunlight dancing through the leaves onto the ground. They didn’t realise the implications Read more…
The problem seems simple enough. They want to be able to get Working Cocker Milo’s focus and attention on them when the are out. When the eight-month-old has his head under a hedge or down a hole, when he’s playing excitedly with other dogs, he goes deaf. Attention has to Read more…
Young working dog without a job. I have just met Sam who is seven months of age. Sam is so very like my own Working Cocker Spaniel, Pickle. I have had over five years with Pickle, learning how to give my alert and energetic working dog a sufficiently fulfilled life so that he’s Read more…
Bobby is a five-year-old chocolate working Cocker Spaniel. He is an unusual mixture of easy and difficult, well trained and wilful! His male owner had him for four years before meeting his partner, and they don’t always agree on how Bobby should be treated. She says it’s like taking on Read more…