Cocker Spaniel - Home Sought

AmyMay

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Here we go again…..

6 month old male cocker spaniel needing a new home, through no fault of his own.

Based in Cardiff.

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It's fairly normal. Any good breeder is usually happy to be contacted if one of their pups isn't working out and indeed many write it into their contracts. Most well-reared puppies remember their breeders for life and a six month old pup has only been away from the breeder for an absolute maximum of 4 months.

A good breeder will mostly have more contacts, if not a waiting list, than the person purchasing and will normally be able to find a new home quickly/more easily.
 
Nearly all reputable breeders sell with a note saying they should be informed if a dog they have bred needs rehoming. Sadly not all breeders are members of their breed accredited scheme. The best option would be for the dog to go to a breed appropriate rescue where it would be assessed and rehomed to a suitable family who would be required to pass a home check and return if they needed to rehome. Working cockers are high energy dogs and the numbers now coming into rescue post COVID are huge. Many of these dogs weren’t properly socialised and were bred as a money making excercise.
 
I get the point of contacting the breeder, I don't get the point of him actually moving back there when he looks like he would easily be snapped up by another spaniel lover.
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Tell them to try posting on agility pages, always a demand for WCS in the sport.
With regard to contacting the breeder, as CC says good breeders will have a waiting list of people wanting their stock so the pup might be able to be rehomed from where it is. All breeders should be responsible for pups they have bred from the day they are born until the day they die in my opinion.
 
Bumping for attention.

Unfortunately I am not in the position to have another dog just yet (unsuitable home/work set up) otherwise I would jump at the chance :( I hope he finds a lovely home.
 
We'd be really tempted if he was a she which is a pointless comment but I thought of him earlier so thought it was worth a bump.

Take it he's still looking for a home?
 
gallopingby said:
Nearly all reputable breeders sell with a note saying they should be informed if a dog they have bred needs rehoming. Sadly not all breeders are members of their breed accredited scheme. The best option would be for the dog to go to a breed appropriate rescue where it would be assessed and rehomed to a suitable family who would be required to pass a home check and return if they needed to rehome. Working cockers are high energy dogs and the numbers now coming into rescue post COVID are huge. Many of these dogs weren’t properly socialised and were bred as a money making excercise.
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We had this with my daughters miss sold dachshund, send it to a breed rescue. Well I have no idea how competant they would be and an already insecure dog would be made more insecure.
I do not get that X breed has special needs, if you have had dogs before, a dog is a dog, I have had small ponies from Welsh A, right up to IDx and TB's and they all have the same basic needs, and their behavoir falls within a certain range, and if a dog needs specailist care its probabely not suitable for rehoming and you are restricting the amount of available homes available at that time, if you are only going to rehome to that breed market, so the dog is waiting for a home for longer.
Every time I have rehomed a dog it has been a new breed to me, I am not an expert, but I am capable of fullfilling their basic needs, so they have a long happy life.
 
Some posts are obviously best ignored!! For each dog advertised by a breed rescue there are likely to already be people home checked and waiting for a dog of that breed. Of course it does depend on the breed / rescue and competence of the people concerned.
 
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