Thank you for your Pm you have just confirmed what I suspected and TBH for reasons im not going to go into on here something that im upset about.
You own Seths sister from the same litter.
You have a extreamly driven, well bred working cocker on your hands
I spoke to people that owned dogs by Seths breeder and he breeds highly driven dogs that would hunt concrete. All the dogs in your dogs pedigree are real working dogs if you know what i mean.
Seth is a non stop very clever working cocker who needs a lot of training which is what i wanted.
I plan on doing competitions with Seth and working him and hes certainaly bred for it
What i do with Seth is he gets two 15min walks a day which are mainly play with me, he also gets little bits of training throughout the day. I keep things very basic at this age, Seth doesnt know stay he knows sit, down, off etc. Seth doesnt believe in giving up and turns into a little crocodile when hes over tired but is too scared of missing something to sleep so he gets popped in his crate and made to rest.
I think there is a fine line between doing enough so that there happy and doing too much which makes them hyper.
I really dont know what to say to you TBH, I so dont want to be negative and dont want to say anything that will make you do anything rash.
Seths an out and out working cocker, I own his half sister brie (same sire) and shes also a hugely driven, clever (sometimes too clever) non stop cocker. If shes been walked and trained she settles really well in the house but if somethings going on shes right in the middle of it and although happy to rest is never,ever tired if you know what i mean. She can be really hard work.
I think that the stud dog owner has fed you a load of crap sorry, he knew the dam of this litter and knew what she was like so must of known what the pups were going to be like, in fact he was looking to have one of the pups so what does that tell you when he trials dogs.
What i can say as a positive is that all the dogs I have met from this stud dog and the dams previous pups have fantastic temperments. Seth is very similar to Brie and from the sounds of it so is your pup and Brie has the most lovely temprement i have ever known in a dog.