Intelligent and alert, your Cocker is always busy, with a merry attitude to life and a constantly wagging tail. Easy to train, your Cocker is eager to please you, and likes nothing better than to be out and about with you, though he can be stubborn and “go his own way” on a walk. The whole of a Cockers being is about using that wonderful scenting ability to flush out small game from wherever he happens to be – in the garden or out among the hedgerows. If he isn’t hunting, and you’re at home, his retrieving instinct will show up in the gifts he brings you, a favourite toy, or one of your slippers. The more you work or play with your Cocker, the happier and more content he will be, because that active brain is easily bored, and without enough to do, he can become morose or sour. Good with children and other pets (though he may go for cats which are not “his”), your Cocker makes a delightful, entertaining family pet.