Are your cocker spaniels show or working type? General Chat

If they are working do you work them??? (what do they do when working??))

If they are show type do you show them and how did you get started ???

Millie is an English Cocker show type but I don't show her or work her we just started training classes (a rather bit late)

I have an English Cocker show type. I don't show him. He's Chocolate Roan and has the fluffiest cocker coat I've ever seen, so couldn't be shown.

Blue roan show type.He just happily cockers about!

Used to have a Blue roan show type but she was not to standard (she was very tall and more like a giant cocker!) so she was a pet

I used to have a Golden show type, never showed him as like all my others he was just a pet. He was highly intelligent and so easy to train even if he did have a few oikey tendencies. He was always covered in mud and muck and is probably the reason I'm so drawn to short haired breeds these days.
pre digital photo of Shannon.

Beautiful...............

my mums first dog was an english cocker that was Golden called Lassie ^^

Two WCS, one solid black, one fox red.

They aren't old enough yet and are still training, but they will work on the local pheasant shoot beating/picking up, and will also do agility.

I didnt think you can get a fox red cocker lovely colour and lovely dogs.
Does the fox red come in show type as well??

No idea, Fox Red probably isn't even the "official" term!

My cocker spaniel is a pampered and spoiled type.

Case in point:

Bob is a solid black show type
who goes out 3 times a day, comes to work with me
and we also do 2 training classes a week
Monday is Agility and Sunday is obedience and fun agility
Cockers are very active little dogs, and love nothing more
than to be out and about

The difference between the show and working types are really quite amazing aren't they! Especially the domed head in the show types compared to the flat broad head in working.

Very much so - its like two different breeds
We have a show type in the street and he is LOVELY, but so different to your guys. No drive at all to work with people, he just loves to go off on his own sniff sniff sniffing with his wee tail wagging like mad
pretty, but dim

Aww!

Sometimes I wish mine would just go off and sniff and stop perstering me!!

I have a working Fox Red Cocker Spaniel, hes only 5 mths but wanting to get into agility type classes when hes old enough.

Hello Alfie! Whereabouts in Glasgow are you?

I've just got a Working type cocker - when she's old enough we're going to train her to work - Scurrying - Got to wait another month before we can start her off though, might try her with agility too when she's older

Lily - Lemon Roan

aww Lily is adorable!

Thank you