Is my boy a Springer or a Field Spaniel?

My boy, Loki, belonged to a family from 8 weeks but they obviously weren't prepared for the energy levels so sold him to me (hurrah!). She said that she saw both the parents and that they were both Springers but he has the colouring of a field spaniel and its possible his nose isn't as wide as a springer. I don't know anything except what I've just read on the internet about field spaniels but I thought springers were generally pretty much equally white and liver/black.




I'll try and get some better pictures up!

I would've said he was more like a working cocker? I'm sure someone more experienced will be along soon though.
He's a little cutie, whatever he is!

Maybe. I don;t know much about them- off to research now!
I thought he was small for 16 weeks when I got him but the woman said he was the smallest of the litter. He seems to have quite long legs and neck.
I don't really care as I adore him but it'd be nice to know!!

working cocker, or sprocker

Thats what I was thinking though i am no expert so didnt want to make a prat of myself

Can I just ask what brings you to that conclusion (not questioning, I'd just like to know what it is about him that tells you this?)

As far as i am aware Springers dont come in Solid colours...plus cockers are smaller and have different ear set.
The experts will be along in a minute tho....i have never owned either!!!!

i just had a field spaniel in my house today, they looked similar

I agree with this, either Working Cocker, or a Sprocker!

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Trying to find a pic of my boy at a similar age, but having trouble finding one where he is both awake and not covered in mud or snow!





He is a springer x cocker

Here are a couple of pictures of Misty when she was a pup, can't remember her exact age in them. She is a sprocker, her mum is a springer, her dad a working cocker!




Her nose has got 'pointier' as she's grown up and she is still quite small!

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Sprocker!!!! Gorgeous!

Well, that does make sense.
Here's some more piccies:

Id say Springer/Cocker cross, looks too big to be a pedigree Cocker. Definitely not a Field Spaniel.

Does look so much like my Toby, I could easily pass those photos off as him!

Agree with the springer/cocker cross. Has a look of a springer but isn't quite right so thinking cross.

Helen

Doesn't look like a Field Spaniel to me. I agree with the others, maybe a Springer/Cocker mix.

Diagreeing with the above: He certainly looks like a field spaniel, especially in that last photo, with the difference that his ears are attached very high, but it might look that way because he's not clipped, or just because he's not a result of knowledgeable breeding. (All spaniel ears should be attached quite low, apart from a couple, like Welch Springer Spaniel or Brittany Spaniel.) I can't remember ever seeing a full liver -coloured English Springer, but then again, I own a field spaniel so I don't really pay attention to springers quite as much. Fieldies look a bit different in USA than what they do in other parts of the world, the American ones are quite a bit smaller, Australian are average in size and Europeans quite large, especially in Scandinavia, which is due to a preference in these countries, even though all breed standards are the same.

I must say that this is the first time someone is suspecting their mystery pup is a Field Spaniel and I am inclined to go that way. Normally they look nothing like a fieldie.

I would say for a fair certainty, that at least one of his parents is a field spaniel, which are very often confused with springers. The other option is that there is a cocker in the mix, with a welch springer half, resulting in Springer body with cocker -colouring, but yes... I would say a Field Spaniel + Welch Springer is a higher likelihood.

I have a photo almost exactly like the one you posted last of my field spaniel, around the same age, wearing a harness, sniffing a bank, from the same side... Of course that one was taken on a film camera and I didn't scan it, as it was equally as blurry as yours. It's such a similar photo it's scary.

He's also showing signs of loose wrists in one photo, which is a typical condition for a growing field spaniel. It will correct itself when he grows up (don't let vets operate!).

I'll ask a few fieldie-owners what they think.

Field spaniels are a bit heavier set over here, had one through rescue a couple of years since and you don't tend to get the white on them, he isn't a springer ears and colouring are wrong

i agree with the others springer/cocker spaniel mix