Thus, the English Springer Spaniel, Field Spaniel, English Cocker Spaniel, and on through all of today's
British spaniel breeds.
Not exact matches
Originally
bred in Great Britain 400 years ago, the toy
spaniels were pets of royalty and named because of a children's pet in the household of Charles I. King Charles II decreed that the
spaniels could not be banned from any public place, including Parliament, and they're commonly seen in
British historical paintings.
With the introduction of the larger
British retriever
breeds to the American hunting scene, the little brown
spaniel fell from favor.
At the first
British dog shows, in the 1870s, English and Welsh Springer
Spaniels were exhibited as the same
breed.
The AKC
breed names are the Cocker
Spaniel (for the U.S. type) and the English Cocker
Spaniel (for the
British type).
In the second period, from 1920 to today, American waterfowlers came to rely more and more on five
British breeds: Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, flat - coat retrievers, curly - coat retrievers and Irish water
spaniel.
A member of the
British Spaniel family, the Sussex is the
breed that stands lowest to the ground.
An English Springer
Spaniel that does not look anything like the historic or the
British dog perhaps should have «English» dropped from its name in countries where
breed type has strayed significantly.
Using the reindeer herding dogs brought by the Vikings, breeders brought in
British droving
breeds as well as
spaniels to create a dog that's sole existence depended on hard work.
It is still somewhat risky in less extreme
breeds, like
British Shorthair cats, Boxers, Cavalier King Charles
Spaniels, Shar Peis, and Newfoundlands.