Get to know your type
Aug 10, 2022
3 minutes
HERE’S A COMMON belief that sprocker spaniels, the cross between a cocker and an English springer, are healthier than their pure-bred parents. Outbreeding, mixing two quite different spaniel blood lines, certainly has lots of plus points, but it doesn’t necessarily mean fitter dogs that are less susceptible to the many hereditary diseases that these two breeds suffer from. This was the stark warning from Anne-Marie Furlong, who is well qualified to speak on the subject, as she has probably bred more litters of sprockers than anyone.
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