Field Notes Scrapbook
Kindred Cockers at work
Working on a project means you have to begin somewhere...so sometimes you just start.
The American Cocker Spaniel is a bird flushing breed developed in response to a need for a compact, birdy, little dog with heart. She will dive into dense brush or fields to startle birds into the air for the hunter.
Early hunters used nets to capture the flushed birds, but today guns are used. Cockers are perfect for work with smaller birds; woodcocks, grouse, quail and pheasants but will rally even wild turkeys.
Cockers love to retrieve, and learn to anticipate the gunfire with the falling bird.
This is a new project for my little Crystal and me. And in June, 2002, at 8 years old, Crystal earned her Working Dog title from the Wisconsin English Springer Spaniel Association.
Crystal
is now
DUET DIAMOND DOUBLE WD
BEST FIELD BRED at the
2002 ASC National Cocker Spaniel Show
San Antonio, Texas
Professional
Trainer
Jason Givens, Wisconsin
Photos
by
Shirley Hunsaker, Madison, WI
DUET DIAMOND DOUBLE WD,
bred by Jolene O'Brion, owned, trained and handled by Bobbie Kolehouse,
Kindred.
Crystal
is pointed from the breed ring and is dam of Ch. Duet Dreamsicle WD,
Ch. Duet Kindred Advocate
and Kindred Rebel's Battle Hymn, T.D.
and the PolkaDots,
Kindred
Etoile de Diamant
2002 BOV Futurity
ASC National Cocker Spaniel Show
and
Kindred Treasure of the Stars
owned by Sandra Bell, San Jo.
