Thanks everyone.
He looks very pathetic now with his shorn look because of the skin infection he now has, especially when I have to wait 10 min for the malasseb to take effect (he looks pitiful then). I may have to get the buster collar out though as he keeps licking certain areas (now he really will be pathetic about that).
He's also beginnning to take advantage of the situation, ha which cocker doesn't (I think words inch and mile spring to mind here). He kept me up half the night the other night whinging and whining (because he wanted me and nothing else!), so that will be nipped in the bud pretty fast.