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English cocker spaniel |
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English cocker spaniel, breed of compact sporting dog sporting dog, classification used by breeders and kennel clubs to designate dogs bred for pointing, flushing, and retrieving game. These dogs hunt by air scent—as opposed to most hounds, which are ground scenters—and their quarry is primarily game birds. ..... Click the link for more information. perfected in England, whose development may be traced back to the original spaniels of Spain. It stands about 16 in. (40.6 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs about 30 lb (13.6 kg). Its medium-length coat is silky and slightly wavy and forms fringes of longer hair, or feathers, on the dog's underside, ears, chest, and legs. It may be any of various colors or parti-colored. The tail is docked. Until its official recognition by the Kennel Club of England in 1892 as a separate breed, it and the larger springer spaniel were distinguished by size only. Thus, the same litter could produce both dogs, the cocker being used to hunt smaller game, such as woodcocks. It is still trained for that purpose today and is also widely kept as a house pet. The smaller cocker spaniel of America, derived from it, has been established as a separate breed. See dog dog, carnivorous, domesticated wolf (Canis lupus familiaris) of the family Canidae, to which the jackal and fox also belong. The family Canidae is sometimes referred to as the dog family, and its characteristics, e.g. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This week, we run a feature on page 4 about a woman who brings her English cocker spaniel to visit patients at Valley Presbyterian Hospital on and a short story on page 5 about a pet adoption event coming up Feb. Tyler Tolman of Orem, Utah, was the lucky 200,000th person to enroll his new dog, Bunker, a six-month-old English Cocker Spaniel adopted from the Lost Paws organization in Provo, Utah, into the ShelterCare program. Laci and Keesha, a 7-year-old English cocker spaniel with a glistening black coat and stubby tail that wags nonstop (``We call that her happy meter,'' said handler Darlene Fraschetti), are two of 11 dogs that work the hospital corridors. |
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