What is the best age to buy a Clumber Spaniel?

Most people offer Clumbers from eight weeks of age – I think this age is too young, let me tell you why! It has become the norm to offer puppies of all breeds at 8 weeks of age, and that sort of fits in with vaccinations, if the buyer is prepared to do the...

Is the Clumber Spaniel the breed for you?

The Clumber is a spaniel family member – and as such has and displays many of the qualities of that ‘race’. These spaniel qualities include: – a reasonable sized head compared to the body (compare the wolf’s head to its body), wider in...

BREEDING ADVICE by Dr E Fitch Daglish

from his article Breeding for the Future published Our Dogs Christmas Number 1964 Every mating should be regarded as representing a stage in a deliberate and progressive breeding programme, the aim of which is to build up a strain that may be relied on consistently to...

How to choose a breeder

I know there has been a hue and cry, particularly in the USA, about puppy millers, and I am also aware a lot of dogs have had to be rescued to and re-homed from ‘homes’ that pups from such places have been sold to. This article is an article so YOU as a...

Eyes in Clumbers

This is a complicated issue, often ignored or misunderstood. This article is not complete, but gives some information which I will perhaps remember to add to later. HEALTHY EYES An excellent eye, firm but not tight rim, no sign of entropion or extropion, minimal sign...

Hips and Hindquarters in Clumbers

This is a complicated issue, often ignored or misunderstood. This article is not complete, but gives some information which I will perhaps remember to add to later. Try rating these x ray plates of Clumber hips yourself: plate one plate two plate three Check out these...

Bites (Occlusion) in Clumbers

This is a complicated issue, often ignored or misunderstood. This article is not complete, but gives some information which I will perhaps remember to add to later. A sample of a correct/scissor bite in the breed, although in breeding I lean for a full depth scissor...

Standing the Clumber – For Showing

This will contain photos and examples for show exhibitors. It will cover free standing and ‘stacking’ a phrase that still grates on me after all these years, we should be doing no more than offering feather light touches to encourage our dogs to stand at...

Angulation

Are you only looking for angulation at the hock? Dogs have a pelvis, the upper thigh (femur) articulates with that and then at the knee/stifle the femur articulates with the lower thigh (tibia) which articulates with the hind cannon through the hock – you need...

ANGULATION

Are you only looking for angulation at the hock? Dogs have a pelvis, the upper thigh (femur) articulates with that and then at the knee/stifle the femur articulates with the lower thigh (tibia) which articulates with the hind cannon through the hock – you need...