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Offline dog2

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« on: October 01, 2004, 08:18:05 AM »
I,m not the sharpest tool in the box so am still pondering over the difference between working cockers and the 'other' cockers. :huh: Temperament,looks,needs etc.,Could anyone please explain in simple terms to me as i dont know which Benji is at all :unsure:  
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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2004, 08:39:04 AM »
There is a photo of a working cocker on the Cocker Spaniel club's website on the colours page.
A working cocker is quite different to the show type. Working cockers have much less feathering than the show type. The ears are also quite a lot smaller on a working cocker. If you look at your dogs pedigree's and you see FT CH there then you will have working cocker in the pedigee. SH CH indicates Show Champion which will be the show type  :)

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« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2004, 09:33:34 AM »
If you do a search on "working cockers" using the Search button at the top of the page, you'll get quite a few threads come up where the differences between show & working type Cockers have been discussed. But if Benji is a rescue, you may never know for sure what type he is - he could even be a mix of show/working bloodlines and so have some of the characteristics of both types.

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« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2004, 01:41:31 PM »
How about you post a picture and we can have a guess what Benji is game!!

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« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2004, 07:41:49 PM »




Benji(a very short clipped Benji,but you get the idea :) )
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« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2004, 07:51:55 PM »
He looks very much like a 'show', but, sorry, who the hell clipped him???
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« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2004, 08:26:43 PM »
Awww bless him - my Brook used to get the 'short, back and sides' too :lol:  

PS He looks show-type to me ;)  
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« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2004, 10:03:21 PM »
Yes he's show-type - if bred by a Working Cocker breeder, he would have a much longer dock.

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« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2004, 10:15:39 PM »
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.
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« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2004, 10:58:36 PM »
Whatever he is, hes still a charmer. You have your very own teddy bear with him :)

I know you got a lot of good advice at the surrey meet regarding his coat and I think that letting it grow, stop clipping it and use the coat king (defelter) and scissors you will see a much better coat.

My last boy was a solid and was kept clipped short back and sides as he went to work on the building sites, but in the winter when he stayed at home it was allowed to grow and with it came the feathering and he looked a completely different dog.

Give Benji a hug from me
 
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« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2004, 12:21:11 AM »
aaw thankyou...hug has been given :P  :)  
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« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2004, 05:18:53 PM »
Long or short coat we thought he was lovely and very cuddly !

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« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2004, 05:37:15 PM »
Awww give him a ((( hug ))) from  me too, he's gorgeous.  :)  
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« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2004, 11:24:21 PM »
Benj says he agrees with you and he IS gorgeous :P  :lol:  
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« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2004, 10:23:56 PM »
This is an issue that has always rubbed me up the wrong way as we have a working cocker and a show cocker. They both have the typical characteristics that you would expect from their respective strains ie the worker is more agile and more intelligent but I would also argue that to say she is not the 'show' dog, she is also better looking.
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