Breed Priorities – Clumber Spaniel

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296 – April, 2022

By Nikki Riggsbee

“Elderly gentlemen’s hunting companion” was a description I heard of Clumber Spaniels long ago and which I like, although I didn’t see it on the parent club’s web site and so it may be politically incorrect. The history of the breed has many theories, but is not well-documented. The name was derived from Clumber Park, an estate of the Duke of Newcastle in Nottinghamshire, England. The Duke’s gamekeeper is credited with developing Clumber Spaniels over two hundred years ago.

Clumbers are the largest of the flushing spaniels. They arrived in North America in 1848, first in Canada. They were among the first breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club, the first Clumber being registered with AKC in 1878. Although it is on the low entry breed list and ranks 135th in AKC’s registration statistics list, the breed is currently enjoying more popularity than it has had previously.

We found fifty-one breeder-judges, mentors, and other Clumber Spaniel experts to invite to take a survey on their breed’s priorities. Twenty-five agreed to participate, and eighteen surveys arrived by the deadline. This group averages twenty-six years in the breed. Those who judge have been doing so for thirteen years on average, and several have judged their national specialty.

Clumber Spaniel Virtues

The survey included a list of virtues taken from the breed’s AKC standard for the experts to prioritize from most to least important. Below is the list in order by the average of the experts’ ranks, with one being the most important.

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296 – April, 2022

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