Golden Show Cocker Spaniel for Stud KC Registered

21/08/2025

I don’t think Ludo is paying attention to the latest Mission Impossible film…and he’s in my spot.
Should I wake him and make him move 🤔?

21/08/2025

From the KC regarding puppy ad changes.

When a dog (so Mungo or Ludo) meets both the ‘good’ and ‘best’ lists, they will get a ‘best’ accolade on the KC puppy ad which I’m really pleased about.
VERY very few studs will get that accolade because very few have a hip score.
Meantime, trying to book annual eye exams - what a pain in the bum they are to sort out 🙄

Amanda. X

20/08/2025

Attention Breeders and Puppy Buyers and Stud Choosers

A few months ago the KC changed the heath test requirements having consulted extensively with the BVA.

The ‘new’ minimum tests required for a cocker spaniel - the ‘good list’ included a hip score.
Just a few months later and without a fanfare, they have changed it again.
Why? No new health data I can see.

But KC puppy ads now tell you which dog (sire or dam) meets the ‘list’ and simply no one was hitting it.

Because VERY few cockers are hip scored (less that 200 in 2022). A few more have eye exams. Not many.

The new good list is utterly as basic as you like: COI, PRA and AMS.

It’s really disappointing. They should have stuck with their guns so stud owners paid for more tests.

Studs at the very least should be tested to BOTH ‘good’ AND best’ lists.

And frankly, everyone knows cockers should be eye tested. And even that’s not on the basic ‘good’ list 😳

I had a look on the KC ads yesterday. Some very basic studs being used but nonetheless given a meets the good list badge giving what I think is an over egged position - and that’s on the KC site!

As they are stud dogs, Mungo and Ludo both tested to ‘good’ and ‘best’ whatever the list configuration because they absolutely should be tip top on the health tests. That makes them totally stand out on KC ads as most don’t even hit a good list.

Why am I one of a handful of stud owners thinking this?

Amanda

19/08/2025

A Mungo litter

Golden show type Cocker Spaniel puppies KC registered £2000 Sired by Mungo Kc Name Izznberr High Court who has exceptional health tests Mungo is tested to Kennel club & British Veterinary (BVA) priority standard and recommended requirments for Cocker spaniels. Mum is Bessie a lovely friendly happy

19/08/2025

A Mungo Litter.

Due soon: Our adorable golden teddy bear Show Cocker Tilly is due her first litter. Grandparents of the litter: our “perfect” black show x worker cocker spaniel ‘Poppy’, and golden show cocker spaniel ‘Jarvis’. Dad of the litter is ‘Mungo’. All parents /grandparents are KC registered...

19/08/2025

A Mungo Litter

READY NOW. Vet check Microchip and first Vaccine are now completed. Mum Squeak is my gorgeous home bred golden Cocker Spaniel. Kc reg Julbella cream of the crop. Dna tested clear for Acral Mutation Syndrome Degenerative Myeiopathy Familial Nephropathy Glycogen Storage Desease V11 Progressive Retina

19/08/2025

Saw the best groomed dog today in my dog fields.
James spotted him and I couldn’t resist, so I had to go and introduce myself.
So here is Rufus a standard poodle. Nothing standard about him! Loves being groomed and the groomer is very creative. As you can see. He has different designs. But at the moment it’s a p***y zebra.
His owner said he was asked if he was crossed with a zebra 😆

19/08/2025

Cordelia and Ludo’s litter. 4 weeks old today.
Weaning is going well. They feed with Cordelia at night
We wake them every 3 hours in the day to feed them, they have a little play outside their pen in the kitchen (and have little woofs at all the fun they are having which is very sweet) and then they go back to sleep again. Repeat.

They are keen to play with each other and the other dogs but find us a little curious.
Amanda x

18/08/2025

Beautiful KC Mungo boy available. Wiltshire way.
Shout if you want the deets. Available end of August.
Amanda x

18/08/2025

Some good lessons from dad Ludo who I have told to have a gentle play with his pups.
I’m a firm believer thag dogs teach other dogs manners and to me, forget the sound of the Hoover, meeting other dogs is key to being well mannered. You might not like other dogs but you don’t snarl or bark at them - you stand, get sniffed and move on.
But how to get this? By meeting other dogs. Lots of them.
At this stage you can’t match it so you need a special dog like Ludo. But at all times, you must manage ‘energy’ as playing can get of hand fast if one of you is more boisterous than the other and playing should at all times be FUN. Look out for:

-open postures (play on ground and paws out) / exaggerated bouncy movements / bums in air
- wagging tails
- open mouth ‘biting’ that isn’t biting
- and taking turns (key) so it’s fun for both.

Dad Ludo knows they are puppies and too small to really play with him but you can see from his nose (pushing them away) or moving off when he thinks it’s too much.
When older, if a dog gets out of hand, the other dog will tell them! I have posted videos of playing dogs before. It’s lovely to see. And very obvious. And very obvious when it’s not fun anymore.

Even here the puppy here gets bored and moves on because she’s not getting the reaction she gets from her siblings who will bite and paw her back as they naturally think this is what it’s all about.

A dog will move away and play ends. That’s why you always ingore a biting puppy. They think it’s play and NO (until they really understand it) means: do carry on and bite me. So just ignore. And make it clear all interaction ends when that behaviour is exhibited.

My job is to lead my dogs and be in command. But I accept that dogs sometimes have to have some hard lessons from other dogs if they haven’t read the room - so teaching them how to is key. In a few weeks, I’ll let them meet Mungo and he will give them a low growl the moment they come into the room he’s in - and they will totally understand what that means. And if they carry on towards him, I will redirect. Learning to play and learning to leave a dog alone are skills dogs AND humans should have. Mungo leaves them well alone and he expects the same in return. Ludo very happy to play. BOTH are important for your dog to learn.

Find a friends dog / ask your local FB group / doggy day care / pack walks etc etc. These are provide the interactions you need - and as many as you can.
Dogs are naturally social creatures. As we are. How we lead and manage through interactions and reward the behaviours we like, or dogs rewarding the ones they like AND making it clear the ones they don’t, is extremely important.

If you’re arsey dog comes in to my house, 5 other dogs will be straight in there asking some hard questions of them. They won’t like it and they would adapt VERY fast. Because dogs (especially spaniels) are smart and clever. And there’s only one chief cocker spaniel in this house 😃
That’s what happens with the fosters who don’t like other dogs come here. They just need to be taught good manners and my dogs do that. Not all dogs like other dogs particularly. But we must reward acceptable behaviours.
Some dogs are more arsey than others. All puppies start of bitey and unruly.
You have to have a plan. And hearing the Hoover is the least of your worries.
Hope that’s makes sense.
Amanda

16/08/2025

A few days and…Progress. Much less on the floor and on their heads 🥰 as they are getting the hang of eating this dog food stuff.
About to fully start weaning this weekend. 🙈

16/08/2025

Well this is miserable. BUT I do think there are very few great breeders out there - and you can find out lots about them through social media or personal recommendations. You can even ask to meet them - even I regularly see people at my home way before I have a litter (or even a pregnant dog). People want to even check me out and my (bonkers) dogs. I am sure all the good breeders I know, would meet you beforehand.

Genuinely mean this, most people who contact me do so because they met a Mungo son / daughter. Personal recommendations count for a lot. So if you see a dog you like out there, ask the person where they got it from and would they recommend.

You have to pay deposits. But you have to do some checks first and a good website, isn’t really the way these days. Actually, most of the good breeders I know can barely use their phones 😆😃

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