Breed Priorities – Cocker Spaniel
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By Nikki Riggsbee
The Cocker Spaniel was the most popular breed in the United States in the middle of the 20th century. The breed’s popularity may well have been spurred by a dog named Ch. My Own Brucie winning Best in Show twice at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, or possibly another named Checkers owned by Vice President Nixon, and another starring in the popular movie “Lady and the Tramp.” The most recent AKC list ranks Cockers as 28th overall, the fifth most popular sporting breed.
The Cocker Spaniel was developed in England to help with bird hunting, so named because they were used on woodcock. In the United States, the breed evolved into two varieties, eventually splitting into two breeds in AKC–the Cocker Spaniel and the English Cocker Spaniel–in the 1940s. In most of the world, the AKC Cocker Spaniel is known as the American Cocker Spaniel. What AKC terms the English Cocker Spaniel is called the original name of Cocker Spaniel in other countries.
We found seventy-six breeder-judges and mentors to invite to take a survey on Cocker Spaniel breed priorities. Forty-two agreed to participate, and thirty-two completed surveys were tallied. The contributing experts have been in the breed for more than forty years on average. Those who judge have been doing so for nearly twenty years on average. Most of the breeder-judges have judged their national specialty.
Cocker Spaniel Virtues
The survey included a list of sixteen virtues taken from the Cocker Spaniel standard. The experts prioritized them as how relatively important each is when evaluating a Cocker. The list below is in sequence by the average of the experts’ rankings, with one being the most important.
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