Hi thank you so much for your reply. No, toes are not webbed, what would that mean? I thought cocker spaniel first also, he is so cute he looks like a magazine cover.... but his ears are not curly like a cocker would be. Unfortunatly my son is up in RI for two weeks with his dad, so I am with his baby alone watching all the "firsts". I have never had a dog so young, my 2 others were older, and they are really not trained very well at all, my lab/shep mix is hugely protective of me and the family and is aggressive at the door and to walkers by. So, I am getting the dog whisperer book, trying to retrain my other two, and get this baby off to the right start!!!