Just wanted to add to this, That when i bought Alfie, i knew he was a working cocker, we assessed everything and prepared ourselves for having a worker, and a half worker/Show and after alot of planning and searching we purchased him. It was only 2/3 months down the line i actually looked at his pedigree and counted 37 FTCH in his lines!!!!
We live near fields, he has long regular walks/runs and brain training. And once he is 12months we going to look into taking him to a local gun dog club, basically myu OH wants to take him beating in time, and want to have a bit of fun in scurries etc. Ill be honest, Alfie is very energetic and takes alot of walking to get his energy out, but he is no problem whilst he is getting the time he needs. We dedicate our lives and they revolve around the dogs so much and we were purely committed to them from the day go.