Why? My folks got a little Cocker Sp. when my Mom was 6 months pregnant w/me. It was one of the sweetest, most patient dogs one could own! She was my walking coach when I was learning to walk, and ran along w/me. My Mom was a teacher, and another teacher gave her a little male kitten that she couldn’t take care of. Buttons (the dog)was even gentle w/the kitten!
Buttons didn’t even growl or snap when either my sister or I pulled at her hair or tail when we were little toddlers! (I was about 2 1/2 yrs., and sister was 1)She would lay down and watch over us when we were playing.
Cocker Spaniels are jealous dogs. They will bond with a single owner and others in the house will become second class citizens. I and my sister, me 56, sis is 50, both have facial scars from our childhood from a cocker spaniel that was owned by our grandfather. I was raised by my grandfather, in the same house as the dog, from the time I was about 5 years old. I was there before the dog. The dog ‘bonded’ with my grandfather and would attack anyone he thought was getting too much attention from him. We lived in a rural area so it was not a big problem, then Grandpa bought a house in town. Not long after we moved the dog bit a little girl down the street. The girl’s dad shot him and that was the end of that..........