Small Dog Breed Care : How to Care for a Cocker Spaniel

Hi I’m Nancy. I’m the training manager at the Berkley east Bakey main society there at my friend here lolly here is going to help me talk about cocker spaniels. The cocker spaniel is been around for oh many century as a pet dog you can see cocker spaniels and toy spaniels of all kinds in very very old paintings, drawings.

And they always can be a house dog these days your cocker spaniel in terms of care usually needs a lot of coat care many of them have big, heavy shaggy coats that need regular grooming and that grooming is best done by a professional the other thing that you can have really work on with your cocker spaniel is keeping the ears clean and free from infection the large drop ear tense to lend itself to ear infections so you need to check your cocker spaniels ears on a regular basis once or twice a week smell them look at them if there’s any sign of infection or your dog is shaking his head you’ll definitely want to get a veterinarian other than that cocker spaniel can be extremely sweet and lovely house dogs they do need an more of it exercise a lot and they do really well if you give them good mental exercise and good obedience training.