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SPYDA - WENJI SPRING CREEK AT TASSIETAY
Black/Roan Working Cocker Spaniel (born 10 May 2003)
by: Hwlffordd Thermafil Out of Wenji Hey Paula
Breeder : Mrs W Pateman Click to link to Tassietay Working Cocker Spaniels site
Spyda is a very bright little dog, who has great potential
for her new career of competing in obedience and mini agility, she is very keen
to learn and loves doing the training. Her show results are shown on our
Working Cocker
Spaniel site (click to jump to). She has gained her Bronze, Silver
Kennel Club
Good Citizens awards in the "All about dogs event" in Essex in May 2004.
She passed her Gold Test in August 2004.
She has a fantastic pedigree with many Field Trial Champions in her breeding and both her parents currently do gun work. Her natural instincts are showing through already and she loves carrying her toy duck around and enjoys retrieving toys from her paddling pool.
When we first went to see her at 5 weeks old, she seemed to be a little shy, but all that was left behind virtually immediately she arrived home here. She is now very outgoing, friendly and keen to learn new things, she also gets on really well with all the Beardies, including her new best friend Sparkle, our Working Bearded Collie puppy.
I chose her out of the 5 remaining unsold puppies, because at
5 weeks old, she was the only one to retrieve a toy to hand. She was very
people orientated and craved attention, which is what I wanted for an obedience
dog. She just had that special something and I knew she was the one!!
As you can see from the pictures, Working Cockers are very different from their show-bred cousins. The Working bred dogs are taller and slimmer with a flatter head and have much less feathering on the ears and legs. They can be more difficult as they have more of their natural instincts and can be independent, but are great fun to have around.
Working Cockers do make good pets, they are very agile and quick, with a great sense of fun and nothing phases them at all. They get on well with children, as long as the children know how to behave around animals.
At only 12 weeks old, she was doing well with her training and could do a wait and recall, sit and down stay, retrieve a dumbell both on land and from water and had started to learn searching. She naturally has a very keen nose and will easily find a toy, even when well hidden. She has also started work as a demonstration dog for my puppy training classes and loves every minute of it.
Some Working Cockers have made very successful Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and they will also make excellent PAT Dogs (Pets as Therapy), as they adore people and have a great desire to please. They are very good with new situations and are not sound sensitive or over reactive, therefore coping well with life in general.
◄ Look at what I won at the Elham & Folkestone Obedience show in July 2004
And I got my GOLD Kennel Club Good Citizens in August 2004 ►
On the 10th July 2005 Spyda produced a lovely litter of four pups (one girl and three boys) to Tom Speakmans liver dog Teal
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The little black bitch Wytchling has been retained here at Tassietay and hopefully will follow in her mothers footsteps
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In June 2006 Spyda took part in a sponsored walk at Folkestone here she is posing by the sea
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Spyda has now produced her second litter to Steve Wansteads "Rod" (Brynmills Bracken). Visit our Tassietay Working Cocker Spaniels site to see pictures of the pups.
Spyda's page. Maintained by Jackie Smith. Created 8th August 2003
updated 8 February 2008