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Key facts
- Other names
- Cocker Spaniel (in USA), Cocker, Merry Cocker.
- Origin
- United States
- Coat
- medium-length, thick, long
- Color
- White, black, brown, tan, gray, red, fawn
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dog breed
- Subclass of
- dog
- Country of origin
- United States
- Image
- Cocker Spaniel Puppy.jpg
- Height
- 14
- Life expectancy
- 14
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- Commons category
- American Cocker Spaniel
- Commons gallery
- American Cocker Spaniel
- catalog code
- 167
- litter size
- 5.3
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Encyclopedic overview
Dog (domestic dog)
The American Cocker Spaniel is a breed of sporting dog. It is a spaniel type dog that is closely related to the English Cocker Spaniel; the two breeds diverged during the 20th century due to differing breed standards in the US and the UK. In the United States, the breed is usually called a Cocker Spaniel, while elsewhere in the world, it is called an American Cocker Spaniel to distinguish it from its older English cousin. The word cocker is commonly held to stem from their use to hunt woodcock in England, while spaniel is thought to be derived from the breed's origins in Spain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “American Cocker Spaniel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.