Poor Benj,he has really wiry curly coat and no feathers or fine hair at all.someone told me he was like that because he had been neutered.When we got him he was matted and the woman who owned him said he needed grooming once in 6 months can you believe it.When I took him to be clipped she(the pet groomer) did a short back and sides to him as she said it was about all she could do with his coat.So she has done that ever since.He does look a bit like a plucked chicken though and i,m hopefully going to get a defelter so that he can have a coat a bit longer but thinner.He looks like a teddy bear when it grows.I have been so manic just lately that although I,ve printed off the its a spring thing order form i havnt got round to posting it yet.I think he was worked very hard when a youngster and then it all stopped maybe he wasnt good at what they wanted him to be.So he piled on the weight and now we have had him over 2 years and he has lost an incredible amount he wont lose any more.The people that we rescued him from were apparently travellers.Well he is a show cocker.Hes very long and tall.