Your favorite Cocker Spaniel color?

[IRescue452]

I've only seen merle on English cockers, never on American. Its allowed on English cockers. I like mismarked parti coloured and pure white. Neither are accepted in show but both are perfectly acceptable in working and pet dogs, proving that shows are just for beauty and that they'd rather line breed for colour than have mismarks and halfmasks.

[dab_20]

I like mismarked parti coloured and pure white. Neither are accepted in show but both are perfectly acceptable in working and pet dogs, proving that shows are just for beauty and that they'd rather line breed for colour than have mismarks and halfmasks.

I agree. I think they've got way to many rules in how a dog should be marked or look.

[Danegirl2208]

i like black (which is my favorite color on almost any animal)..but if i had to choose a second it would be the classic buff, my parents had 2 buff cockers, buffy and bashy, when i was growing up, i'll have to scan the pics, they were such cute dogs

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

- Black & Tan
- Choc. Tri
- Black Tri

[k9krazee]

i like black (which is my favorite color on almost any animal)

Thats what I was going to say

[bckrazy]

I really love Parti's =0) so so cute.

In respect to conformation, if there weren't rules on "how a dog should be marked and look", we would have very little distinction between breeds and people might as well be mixed breeding. I'm sure that if there were enough proven examples of merles & roans in the American Cocker, and the breed club supported them (the breed club creates the AKC standard), they would be completely accepted colors. I am also positive there is history behind the accepted colors, and not much at all behind merles - it is most likely a gene that has popped up recently. I have seen hundreds of Cockers, and my Mom was heavily involved in the breed for years, and I have never seen a merle in person & neither has my Mom.

[Chilli]

I love Parti's. The white adds such a nice accent to the already beautiful breed. Black/white Parti's have to be my favorite, I believe.

[Suki Wingy]

Black and tan, partis, and chocolates. There is a top winning chocolate representing the ASCOB variety right now who is adorable.