For Spaniel peeps...WTF kind of Cocker is this?

A friggin ugly one!! It's just growling I think?!
Nice ad love the way the one behind it is cowering away! :rolleyes:
 
Vizslak said:
A friggin ugly one!! It's just growling I think?!
Nice ad love the way the one behind it is cowering away! :rolleyes:
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Yes, instils great confidence eh?

You'd have to pay ME to take that one off their hands. I really don't like it. Wonder if they have other pics.

It certainly makes a mockery of the KC if this is KC registered. My Harvey's dad isn't KC registered (although she has his KC papers of his parents). He is a wonderful example of the breed standard yet Harvey is considered "worthless" in the eyes of those who advocate KC registered dogs.
 
You plonker!!! :p :D

I assume it's a puppy farm, given that there are other dogs in a pen behind this one. Is that likely to be their stud dog? :eek:
 
TBF Working cockers can look like anything, as long as they work, no one really gives a toss!
The litter we bred, from two very similar stamps, threw a giant pup that gets mistaken for a springer, several 'whippety' types, a tiny bitch and a couple of 'normal' dogs!
Also we have a Working Cocker that went to crufts, he is pretty much perfect to the breed standard but looks nothing like Harvey. It's just a different interpretation.

It could just be someone who keeps a few cockers in kennels outside and doesn't have much idea about taking pictures, doesn't have to be a puppy farm, lots of Working Cockers do the whoel 'I'm submitting' act for no reason too, so the one cowering behind doesn't mean it's beaten. Maybe the dog is 'smiling' rather than growling, I know a few dogs that do that.

Then again, it could be a puppy farm!!
 
Flamin' Ada, and indeed ruddy Nora.... eeek! That is just scary looking! Poor dog, goodness knows what kind of life it has had...

Great with kids? Really?
 
I wondered if it was smiling too hen actually. My terriers smile like that and would look like they were growling in a photo!
 
Vizslak said:
I wondered if it was smiling too hen actually. My terriers smile like that and would look like they were growling in a photo!
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But it isn't just the visible teeth, what is with the ears?
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And he looks to have both beard and bright red eyes? :eek:

It is not the most flattering sales photo that I've seen. But I don't feel that the advert itself, is in any way better than the photo, why don't they say how old he is? How do they know that he can be a lovely pet? Most people I know, not all by all means, but most, feel that being house clean and accustomed to living indoors is, so to speak, the basic requirements to be a lovely pet.
If he has lived in the kennel, can he walk on a leash? Perhaps they know that he likes children because he didn't bit the children that once went into his kennel without permission?

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Now see the ears fit with the whole 'smiling' thing, when my Dad's cocker is giving you a welcome he holds his ears out like that. He has weird ears (we call them corrugated!) that have a hard ridge running through them, so he can hold them in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways! :D

I have no idea why I am defending this ad, just think it's a bit unfair when people jump to conclusions based on an ad and a photo. However I am just as bad for doing it, and 9/10 it turns out to be a fairly accurate opinion!
 
Personally, if I were looking for a new dog the ad would not put me off - if I were looking for a cocker then yes it would.

I only say this from experience - we once rehomed a cocker who was 14mths and had lived his entire life in kennels. This dog was used to being beaten (we suspect) by his drunken owner as he hated anyone who smelt of alcohol. Our cleaner at the time like a tipple with her corn flakes! lol
When we got him he would not move unless he crawled across the floor, was totally unhouse trained, did not know what a treat was, had no clue about playing - in fact I have never come across such a nervous dog. We think as he was bred for showing that he had the spirit beaten out of him.

With time and love he turned into a wonderful house pet - yes we took a risk on him, and thankfully it paid off, we had him until at the age of 14 he had a stroke and sadley had to be PTS.
 
WoopsiiD said:
Its a new breed of spaniel imported to the UK.
Its a Mogwai Spaniel.









You can't get them wet or feed them after midnight!
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And that one was defo fed AFTER midnight!
In his defense though, he is looking up at the camera. When Bear looks up, his ears fall out like that, in fact he looks like they were glued at 45 degree angles to his head!!
That pup looks like he is smiling, but you would have thought they would choose a more flattering picture.
To the masses.....he just looks demented!
 
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