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The colors of the Devonshire and Welsh Cockers were explained by John Henry Walsh under the pseudonym Stonehenge in his book The Pet in Health and Illness as being a deeper shade of liver than that of the Sussex Spaniel. Following the formation of The Kennel Club in the UK in 1873, efforts were made by breeders to record the pedigrees of cockers and springers.

Two dogs are believed to be the foundation sires of both modern-day breeds of cocker spaniels. Ch. Obo is considered by type enthusiasts to be the dad of the modern-day English Cocker Spaniel, while his kid, Ch. Obo II, is considered to be the progenitor of the American Cocker Spaniel.

He was the boy of a Sussex Spaniel and a Field Spaniel. Although Obo was an English pet, Obo II was born upon American shores his mother was delivered to the United States while pregnant. Throughout his life time, Obo II was claimed in advertisements to be the sire or grandsire of almost every prize-winning cocker in America.

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They were bred as weapon dogs, to use their sense of odor to cover low areas near the handler to flush birds into the air to be shot, and to use their eyes and nose to locate the bird as soon as downed, and after that to obtain the bird with a soft mouth.

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Cocker Spaniel coats occur in a variety of colors, including black, liver, red, and golden in solids. Likewise, black and tan, and sometimes liver and tan are understood, in addition to a variety of color mixes of those solid colors including roans, roan and tans, tricolors, and those strong colors with extra white markings.

A noted event of this happened in 1943, when a grand son of My Own Brucie, Finest in Program at the Westminster Kennel Club Pet Show in 1940 and 1941, was born all-white. In This Author United States, the American Cocker Spaniel was ranked the 23rd-most popular type according to registration statistics of the AKC in 2009, a decrease in appeal since 1999, when it was ranked 13th.