Scottish Cocker

The Scottish Cocker is a hybrid mix of the Cocker Spaniel and the Scottish Terrier.  This hybrid is a newer mix with little information available about it, making it necessary for us to get our background information about it from the backgrounds of the parent breeds. While we do not know the date or place of origination for the hybrid, we can likely assume that it originated in the United States sometime during the late 1900's and the early 2000's when interest in mixing pure bred canines became popular for a variety of reasons.  The Cocker Spaniel is the smallest of the spaniel breeds and was bred for bird hunting and retrieval.  The Cocker breed can be traced back to the United Kingdom in the 1400's where it was part of a much larger spaniel group who were bred to hunt on both land or in the water.  The English Cocker Spaniel (the predecessor to the American Cocker Spaniel) was bred for the purpose of flushing and retrieval of game birds.  The English Cocker came to the United States and Canada in great numbers to appease the bird-hunting populace of North America in the 1800's, with a divergence of the American Cocker Spaniel coming in the early to mid 1900's.  The Cocker Spaniel was officially recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1878 and is the 29th most popular canine breed in that registry.  The Scottish Terrier has a more nebulous history, with its origins being fixed in Scotland but the approximate date of origin being a bit obscured.  Depending on which belief you subscribe to, the approximate date of origin for the Scottish Terrier can range from 55 B.C. during a Roman occupation of Britain, to the 1800's when the breed emerged as a pure breed.  The Scottish Terrier was bred to hunt fox, rats and other vermin and could be found in mining communities, villages, homes and gardens, doing what they do best.  They continue to maintain high levels of hunting skills, companionship and breed popularity today.  The Scottish Terrier was officially recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1885 and is the 58th most popular dog breed in that registry.  The Scottish Cocker is recognized by the American Canine Hybrid Club, the Designer Dogs Kennel Club, the Dog Registry of America, and the International Designer Canine Registry.