Old English Sir - New English Cocker Spaniel Job Standard

INTRODUCTION
The official job Standard is compiled and described by every country in base to the operation employment of the fauna and habitat possibilities, provided that they don't exceed from the performances demand to the breed created with the selection in the country of origin and respect it and protect the characters of base of the functional activity. To compile the Standard of job of a breed of hunting dogs is rational to wonder to thing it serves, in how much auxiliary of the hunter and with what routine of job is up to it to acquit the assignment, because this can concretely become useful and profitable in the simplest way. The Standard of job must suggest an average index of evaluation of the performances value, such that it's accessible to all the subjects carriers of famous characters typical of the breed, even if not all can be able to achieve a maximum result. The test is not a competition to whom arrives first, but an accurate form of technical selection in base to the characteristic canons of the breed. The test is not the occasion to perform some deadly wisecracks of hunting, but on the contrary it is the tool of evaluation with which the basic characters of the attitude are measured and are calculated to the hunting of the subjects in contest. The increasing number of Cocker Spaniel English used to hunting and the tests of job it is absolutely encouraging, but it is necessary to watch out for the negative use of subjects improperly denominated "job Cocker", totally out from the tolerable canons of the breed. And that this presence doesn't come to pollute overhanging in irreparable way the job of selection that with so much abnegation it has been gotten actually to today and that it keeps on producing absolute champions. In such sense it makes the adoption of the strength tool of evaluation of the practical performances that is the Standard of job. It is the moment to fix the technical criterions appraised you with which it can be formulated, with absolute uniformity, the operational address of the breed. So the breeders can draw the necessary indicative inspiration and a constructive comparison for the selection of breeding. The Cocker Spaniel English is a variety among the so many of the great family of the Spaniels, extremely different from all the others, therefore it must have encouraged and protected in the maintenance of its particularity. The Standard of job places in impartial normative position to the General Rule for the Tests of hunting and to the National and International Rule for the Tests of job for Spaniel and with which is endowed some appendixes of arrangement and the formalities necessary of classification to send forth the essential indications of selection.

General characteristics
The Cocker Spaniel English is a dog of an extraordinary intelligence, endowed with a marvellous instinct for the hunting. The character is extremely happy, easy and sure in the relationships with the people and the other dogs. You distinguishes from the other Spaniels for the fierce, separate and elegant gait. It's never submissive in situations even if greater and difficult than his capacity, rather it is brave, stubborn if not intrepid. Of structure physics well balanced, compact and harmonic in his construction. The muscular mass must be well developed to give energy, fluidity and resistance to the in operation work of the job. It will prefer a Cocker of correct dimension, in conformity with physical greatness to the morphological standard, in how much it has as his only, peculiar and distinctive characteristic of breed that to be the smallest among all the English Spaniels hunting. If too much small and too much light it won't have the necessary means physicist for a correct and prolonged action of hunting, even if at times to forehead of an excessive nervousness, succeeds to provide for certain structural limitations with the mentality and the character, estranging however itself from the correct psycho-morphological equilibrium typical of the breed. If too much great in every measure, it won't be in conformity with to his characteristic way to work and to his principal use, besides contradicting his same fundamental characteristic of breed that enumerates it as the smallest Spaniel among all the other breeds of English Spaniel. The build must present strong with a general profile compact and well muscular, the extending dorsal line to the horizontal one, the short and wide kidney that melts it in a solid rump slightly tilted. The chest must be well ample without being excessive in the height, that correct it is in line with the elbows. The limbs well angulated, particularly the pelvic limbs. The neck must present well inserted among the shoulder blades, well muscular and of correct length, but it must be never short or too much long. The head must have a good skull, the well proportionate hypocrite and with open nostrils, peer's face length with the skull and with good quadrature. The eyes must not be prominent, but of correct collection in the orbits with well adherent eyelids for an effectiveness protection from possible serious due accidents to the contact with the vegetation.

The Walk
The Cocker Spaniel English can be enrolled in a very compact rectangle: the height to the tallest point of the back must equalize the distance from the same one to the insertion of the tail. The walk of the Cocker is the ordinary, alive and effective gallop, adapted in the frequency of the wisecracks according to the ground. This particular structure, typical of the trotter in the anglings of the limbs and extremely compact and short in the length of the trunk, therefore more consistent to the galloper, it confers him an excellent flexibility in the variation of the walk spontaneously passing from the trot, used to chase in thick and to settle the most delicate and complex footsteps - from real "meticulous" hunter -, to the gallop primarily used in to sift grounds open using the air. The gallop must ever be continuous, spirited and energetic substantially vehement and impetuous (dowries typical of the breeds Spaniel of great dimensions). In operation of real circumstances dictated by the contingency of the moment, it can moderate the speed up to change footstep, so that to be able to effect brief and motivated checks on footsteps or you signal particularly weak of sense of smell or of difficulty interpretation, even to tenaciously pursue the trail of a wild with the meticulousness and the obstinacy that it notoriously countersigns this breed. The push of the back one must be vigorous but not impetuous, the gallop of the Cocker cannot be characterized therefore by brief times of wisecrack, crops and violent. The pelvic limb in the action of push must not remain under of itself and so much less to beaten end it must produce some sort of kick, but to interact with the anterior limbs in a moderately stride harvest. The thoracic limbs will be extended without to force, guaranteeing a perfect synchronism with the combined action and propulsive of the back limbs, covering an ampleness of support balanced to the push of movement baited by the abdominal limbs. The authentic walk of the Cocker is individualise in a gallop from the light and elegant movement, substantially less fast and less powerful than that of the Springer. The gallop must not be introduced neither extremely erect on the limbs neither so much less flex and serpentine (denied by the same construction of the trunk), but linear, soft and elegant.

The Job
As for the whole other earth Spaniels, the ideal ground of the Cocker is that covered by vegetation inside which the game looks for shelter. Hunting's places these in which the Spaniels optimize their attitudes of hunting. The in operation Cocker also of the different structure physics, which is notably more draft in comparison to the other English Spaniels, it differentiates in to treat and to face the vegetation. For the Cocker is characteristic to enter inside of the vegetation through a real form of use of the natural accesses and/or realized by the wild animals type: fore, burrows, clearings etc. etc., insinuating himself among the obstacles with meticulous procedure, slipping under the coverage with agility and almost feline silence. You uses to define such trial of bring back: "it digs under.". While the Springer, unlike the Cocker, prefers to break down the obstacle also penetrating inside of impetus or of rush from the than above. It is often that in hunting's action in surfaces more or less covered by vegetation is able, also because of the arboreal intrigues, to reduce even the walk of gallop to pass to an action of trot provided that fast and hasty, working and interpreting the emanations that originate from the ground with of the frequent ones "hits of nose.". Less the ground is covered and more it will be induced to accelerate the walk and to use by air mostly the nose so that to retrieve the scents brought by the wind. The freshest emanations will be worked with safety, it goes up again with great precision and determination up to the location of the wild one, but always in silence. The hits of voice will be born, only if sent forth as demonstration of extreme determination in to pursue in the dense vegetation one crafty wild that doesn't want to make to be reached by the dog. If instead they are given to flight him of the wild one out of the sight of the conductor as warning of the happened flight or squirt of the wild is attitude to consider straight as meritorious of an authentic and intelligent assistant. Other forms to give the voice are unjustified in the action of bring back during the deciphering of the emanations; they are not desired since they would alarm the game inducing to flight or to in advance depart to the arrival of the dog. The job of search of footsteps practiced on ample distances and for long periods, also being attitude that encourage, it is not desirable, otherwise it risks to become the performance like a similar hunting dog action. Particularly in the turn of test, where the granted temporal space is limited, the search of a footstep must be rapid and definite for to force the game in the useful distance to the shoot of conductor. The distance of the ray of research is as a rule that of good utility to the shooting of rifle (25-30 meters), even if such equilibrium of research is nearly dictated by the conditions, environmental, arboreal-vegetative and from the conformation of the ground. Insofar it is considered of good utility also the action of research effected beyond the distance of shooting, provided that is granted and managed in every aspect by the conductor and that the possible meeting of some wild is able, for real practical aspects, to become functional to the hunter. In substance a Cocker can be totally “out hand" even if hunting to few about ten meters from the rifle (for instance in dense woods that visual control makes towards the dog obstructive from the conductor, or if completely indifferent to the calls or to the commands imparted to him); it will be more easily considered "out hand" when its action will constantly be practiced to such distances by not to be able the wild found over the range of shooting of the rifle; of meantime will be considered out hand if not obedient to the commands or if not connected with the conductor, a Cocker totally independent and deleterious to the correct use of the same to hunting. The methodology of research must have effected according to the ground: in grounds substantially open it will be of ample side lacet potentially developed in front of the conductor in progression of intersection in the direction of undertaken patrol, the geometry of the same is predominantly orderly with an analytical investigation of the ground. To such intention it is not possible, both for the psycho structural characteristics of the Cocker, of the conditions of the wind, of the vegetation, of the shrewdness of the wild ones, to pretend an univocal coverage from the beginning at the end of the job, but it will be suitable of time in time in base to the structural / environmental conditions of the moment. In the wood the method of research must substantially be orderly and projected in the modular one the ampleness of the lacets in hold correlation to the visibility granted by the vegetation of the brushwood avoiding broken down foolish in vertical along the manager of march, but inspecting every where with good method and in complete connection. In the ways of hunting long edges of wood, banks or other, the action of beat will primarily be planned on the ground that can determine a natural shelter to the game. If before penetrating in the vegetation, our assistant, completes out a glance with the purpose to verify the presence of a possible external footstep is function of big perspicacity. Once made then such type of check the job must minutely have developed inside the vegetation with continuous exits to the outside not to also neglect the ground from the opposite part and to sustain in connection. Once hooked a footstep the rhythm of execution on the same one it will be based above all from the entity of the orgasm of the wild, if more or less light. This is the bewitching and exciting phase of the whole job, the walk will be determined, the tail has frantically moved to signalling of the important job of discover, the head will have lowered below the dorsal line, nearer possible to the ground to gain better the emanation, all of its attitudes will be of maximum excitement, demonstrative towards the conductor of the imminent flutter or squirt of the wild one, clear movements expressly as it is the immobility of the pointer in front of the wild one. The everything is not only superfluous attitude stylistic, but intelligent and concrete collaboration of the dog towards the conductor in to furnish the jewel warning of the presence of the wild one. If the assistant doesn't give a good expression of skirmish of the contact with the emanation, the impression is that it's casually get into the wild one. It is demerit to penalize. The expressiveness of the taking of point must be always highest and particularly evident than it is happening, the footstep must be works with speed and decision, if in the research of footstep a wild gets up to the side or straight behind the passage of the dog it must leave that the same concludes its job because, especially in presence of others wild, the research of footstep of one can bring well over the abode of the others. If finished the action, the dog doesn't put in movement the wild signalled and notified, it means that it has not known how to read and to correctly interpret the trace of the animal in escape, therefore, according to the events, it will deal with passing or neglect of useful game. It can happen in some cases in which the wild one is stationary, of that the dog interrupts the action and shows an indication of firm, or that shortly results in to force the game. This doesn't constitute anything else other than a merit and a further refinement, signaller of the elevated mental equilibrium of the dog, that so doing avoids, during the research of footstep, to surpass the wild still or finally to give the conclusive hit of drive out in inaccurate way. The opposite dog however it always has to manifest the tall state of excitement, the movement of tail must be turned on and frenetic and to the order of the conductor it will obligatorily have to force without delays the game. If instead during the indication of firm, the dog shows insecurity or shortage of verve, insufficiency in the conclusive determination or even fear of the wild one, the everything must be seriously penalized. If instead the action of drive out some dog finds the natural conclusion with the exact determination of the point of escape of the wild one in front of the face of the dog, really in the moment in which the hunter aims the weapon to shoot, the absolute immobility will be demanded to the squirt or to the flutter, so to avoid that it interpose in the line of shooting. The principal motivation is easily deducible in how much the possible run up or the attempt to lean out for seizing the prey, could result to him fatal or strongly injurious to its safety. Another valid aspect for which must be the immobility of the dog pretended to the departure of the wild one is purely inherent in the same fact that it can gather better the exact line manager of the parable of fall of the wild one and finally of the exact location of the same dejected head on the ground. A rash pursuit of a wild, even also not stricken, can cause the imprudent flight or departure of other present game in the parts, which can happen in the moment in which the hunter is with the weapon by to reload. In the cases in which the dog has a partial or total obstruction of the visual field and to make sure the view brings to him of his initiative in position to satisfy a best visual perspective for better locating and to memorize the point of impact of the wild stricken with the ground, this gesture never owes to be interpreted as element of demerit but also as talent of intelligence and sagacity of good assistant. Once struck the wild one, fallen to the ground, hare or rabbit rolled for earth, the dog is granted to go to perform the bring back. The bring back, located once the point of beat and insured the wild one with good taking among the jaws, it is to pretend prompt and jovial, brought with tall head that unloads the weight on the shoulders. To the trot or to the gallop, it doesn't make distinction provided that is always spirited with the well active and frenetic movement of tail. The to lick the prey, the to try to pluck it, the not to want to bite or to do it with little conviction, is aspects of demerit that must be appraised in the circumstance of the case. Different thing will be instead the demonstration of obstinacy in to want tidy better the wild one for a best taking, still more if the wild one results to be still alive and it tries to release from the jaws of the dog. Attention must be lent to the type of vegetation or conformation of the ground in which the wild one is fallen slashed from shot, in how much a pheasant of almost two kilos or a hare of four-five kilos, is not some one comfort baggage for a Cocker of twelve kilos, and at times the intrigues of the vegetation are such from the passage of the dog to make almost impossible with in mouth the wild one. If the Cocker helps him dragging the prey, having bite it for a wing, for a leg or for the neck, this must be tolerated, rather, considered as real demonstration of obstinacy and extreme will to provide for the difficulties created by the environmental conditions. Sometimes the dog, after having bite the prey, acts the head with violent jolts to win the resistance of the animal that intends to rebel. The judge distinguishes the strong taking from the hard tooth or rather the vice to rage on the prey. The strong taking is motivated from the fact of not to grant further possibility of escape to the wild one, especially if it is wounded in light way and it defends him as it is able towards the dog; otherwise the hard tooth is the clear demonstration of wish to rage on the wild one, especially if died, inactive or in the total possibility to rebel. Sometimes, to forehead of a fought recovery, the wild one can introduce some lesions on the regions dorsal and / or of the tail. Even if of first impact the thing can appear as element to penalize, but it could be instead also the consequence of a difficulty and hard-working capture. The judge must appraise if similar lacerations are due to the direct wish of the dog or if they are due to extraneous situations to the dog himself as for example due to shot, to the fall of the same or to other still... however in the case of possible doubtful aspects in worth must be stretched out for the dog. If the dog refuses to bite, therefore to bring a wild torn to pieces by an awkward shot, has the whole right of it, rather it must not be inflicts to him some penalty, provided that the fool is evident and considerable. If the wild one after having been stricken succeeds in escaping from the point of beat to the ground or from the point where stricken has been from the shot using the strengths remained him, then the bring back evolves him in recovery. And if the dog cannot pursue to sight it obligatorily has to work of nose so that better deciphering the footstep. More precisely and quickly he will succeed in hooking the wild more the recovery will be directed and functional. In these eventualities the research is more addressed to work in the direction of escape of the wild one more it will result decisive and less wearing out in coming and going, chaotic and anxious. Which attitudes engaged with actions of unrestrained impetus according to the circumstances can also reveal harmful or disturbed to the possibility of other presence of game. More it can depend on a good training of the dog to correctly perform the form of the blind bring back to command. It is to avoid the dispatch to the bring back on long distances. In the way of re-entry it is granted to the dog to readjust of the taking, also supporting again in earth the prey for then bite again quickly so that to continue and to complete the operation action of this it must be valued some factors as the distance of the bring back, the massive structure of the game, the different environmental conditions and every thing can complicate the carrying out. The bring back from the water, in how much performed in not accessible situation to the man, it is him to consider as recover. The brought prey or recovered must have handed in the hands of the conductor with cheerfulness as if he wanted reward him of the aspired prey.

Technical committee of the Club Italian Spaniel - Sori, June 26th 2006

(approved by the Advisory Committee of the Experts by the Directive Suggestion of the ENCI October 3rd 2006)

ENGLISH COCKER SPANIEL JOB STANDARD
INTRODUCTION The official job Standard is compiled and described by every country in base to the operation employment of the fauna and habitat possibilities, provided that they don't exceed from the performances demand to the breed created with the selection in the country of origin and respect it and protect the characters of base of the functional activity. To compile the Standard of job of a breed of hunting dogs is rational to wonder to thing it serves, in how much auxiliary of the hunter and with what routine of job is up to it to acquit the assignment, because this can concretely become useful and profitable in the simplest way. The Standard of job must suggest an average index of evaluation of the performances value, such that it's accessible to all the subjects carriers of famous characters typical of the breed, even if not all can be able to achieve a maximum result. The test is not a competition to whom arrives first, but an accurate form of technical selection in base to the characteristic canons of the breed. The test is not the occasion to perform some deadly wisecracks of hunting, but on the contrary it is the tool of evaluation with which the basic characters of the attitude are measured and are calculated to the hunting of the subjects in contest. The increasing number of Cocker Spaniel English used to hunting and the tests of job it is absolutely encouraging, but it is necessary to watch out for the negative use of subjects improperly denominated "job Cocker", totally out from the tolerable canons of the breed. And that this presence doesn't come to pollute overhanging in irreparable way the job of selection that with so much abnegation it has been gotten actually to today and that it keeps on producing absolute champions. In such sense it makes the adoption of the strength tool of evaluation of the practical performances that is the Standard of job. It is the moment to fix the technical criterions appraised you with which it can be formulated, with absolute uniformity, the operational address of the breed. So the breeders can draw the necessary indicative inspiration and a constructive comparison for the selection of breeding. The Cocker Spaniel English is a variety among the so many of the great family of the Spaniels, extremely different from all the others, therefore it must have encouraged and protected in the maintenance of its particularity. The Standard of job places in impartial normative position to the General Rule for the Tests of hunting and to the National and International Rule for the Tests of job for Spaniel and with which is endowed some appendixes of arrangement and the formalities necessary of classification to send forth the essential indications of selection. General characteristics The Cocker Spaniel English is a dog of an extraordinary intelligence, endowed with a marvellous instinct for the hunting. The character is extremely happy, easy and sure in the relationships with the people and the other dogs. You distinguishes from the other Spaniels for the fierce, separate and elegant gait. It's never submissive in situations even if greater and difficult than his capacity, rather it is brave, stubborn if not intrepid. Of structure physics well balanced, compact and harmonic in his construction. The muscular mass must be well developed to give energy, fluidity and resistance to the in operation work of the job. It will prefer a Cocker of correct dimension, in conformity with physical greatness to the morphological standard, in how much it has as his only, peculiar and distinctive characteristic of breed that to be the smallest among all the English Spaniels hunting. If too much small and too much light it won't have the necessary means physicist for a correct and prolonged action of hunting, even if at times to forehead of an excessive nervousness, succeeds to provide for certain structural limitations with the mentality and the character, estranging however itself from the correct psycho-morphological equilibrium typical of the breed. If too much great in every measure, it won't be in conformity with to his characteristic way to work and to his principal use, besides contradicting his same fundamental characteristic of breed that enumerates it as the smallest Spaniel among all the other breeds of English Spaniel. The build must present strong with a general profile compact and well muscular, the extending dorsal line to the horizontal one, the short and wide kidney that melts it in a solid rump slightly tilted. The chest must be well ample without being excessive in the height, that correct it is in line with the elbows. The limbs well angulated, particularly the pelvic limbs. The neck must present well inserted among the shoulder blades, well muscular and of correct length, but it must be never short or too much long. The head must have a good skull, the well proportionate hypocrite and with open nostrils, peer's face length with the skull and with good quadrature. The eyes must not be prominent, but of correct collection in the orbits with well adherent eyelids for an effectiveness protection from possible serious due accidents to the contact with the vegetation. The Walk The Cocker Spaniel English can be enrolled in a very compact rectangle: the height to the tallest point of the back must equalize the distance from the same one to the insertion of the tail. The walk of the Cocker is the ordinary, alive and effective gallop, adapted in the frequency of the wisecracks according to the ground. This particular structure, typical of the trotter in the anglings of the limbs and extremely compact and short in the length of the trunk, therefore more consistent to the galloper, it confers him an excellent flexibility in the variation of the walk spontaneously passing from the trot, used to chase in thick and to settle the most delicate and complex footsteps - from real "meticulous" hunter -, to the gallop primarily used in to sift grounds open using the air. The gallop must ever be continuous, spirited and energetic substantially vehement and impetuous (dowries typical of the breeds Spaniel of great dimensions). In operation of real circumstances dictated by the contingency of the moment, it can moderate the speed up to change footstep, so that to be able to effect brief and motivated checks on footsteps or you signal particularly weak of sense of smell or of difficulty interpretation, even to tenaciously pursue the trail of a wild with the meticulousness and the obstinacy that it notoriously countersigns this breed. The push of the back one must be vigorous but not impetuous, the gallop of the Cocker cannot be characterized therefore by brief times of wisecrack, crops and violent. The pelvic limb in the action of push must not remain under of itself and so much less to beaten end it must produce some sort of kick, but to interact with the anterior limbs in a moderately stride harvest. The thoracic limbs will be extended without to force, guaranteeing a perfect synchronism with the combined action and propulsive of the back limbs, covering an ampleness of support balanced to the push of movement baited by the abdominal limbs. The authentic walk of the Cocker is individualise in a gallop from the light and elegant movement, substantially less fast and less powerful than that of the Springer. The gallop must not be introduced neither extremely erect on the limbs neither so much less flex and serpentine (denied by the same construction of the trunk), but linear, soft and elegant. The Job As for the whole other earth Spaniels, the ideal ground of the Cocker is that covered by vegetation inside which the game looks for shelter. Hunting's places these in which the Spaniels optimize their attitudes of hunting. The in operation Cocker also of the different structure physics, which is notably more draft in comparison to the other English Spaniels, it differentiates in to treat and to face the vegetation. For the Cocker is characteristic to enter inside of the vegetation through a real form of use of the natural accesses and/or realized by the wild animals type: fore, burrows, clearings etc. etc., insinuating himself among the obstacles with meticulous procedure, slipping under the coverage with agility and almost feline silence. You uses to define such trial of bring back: "it digs under.". While the Springer, unlike the Cocker, prefers to break down the obstacle also penetrating inside of impetus or of rush from the than above. It is often that in hunting's action in surfaces more or less covered by vegetation is able, also because of the arboreal intrigues, to reduce even the walk of gallop to pass to an action of trot provided that fast and hasty, working and interpreting the emanations that originate from the ground with of the frequent ones "hits of nose.". Less the ground is covered and more it will be induced to accelerate the walk and to use by air mostly the nose so that to retrieve the scents brought by the wind. The freshest emanations will be worked with safety, it goes up again with great precision and determination up to the location of the wild one, but always in silence. The hits of voice will be born, only if sent forth as demonstration of extreme determination in to pursue in the dense vegetation one crafty wild that doesn't want to make to be reached by the dog. If instead they are given to flight him of the wild one out of the sight of the conductor as warning of the happened flight or squirt of the wild is attitude to consider straight as meritorious of an authentic and intelligent assistant. Other forms to give the voice are unjustified in the action of bring back during the deciphering of the emanations; they are not desired since they would alarm the game inducing to flight or to in advance depart to the arrival of the dog. The job of search of footsteps practiced on ample distances and for long periods, also being attitude that encourage, it is not desirable, otherwise it risks to become the performance like a similar hunting dog action. Particularly in the turn of test, where the granted temporal space is limited, the search of a footstep must be rapid and definite for to force the game in the useful distance to the shoot of conductor. The distance of the ray of research is as a rule that of good utility to the shooting of rifle (25-30 meters), even if such equilibrium of research is nearly dictated by the conditions, environmental, arboreal-vegetative and from the conformation of the ground. Insofar it is considered of good utility also the action of research effected beyond the distance of shooting, provided that is granted and managed in every aspect by the conductor and that the possible meeting of some wild is able, for real practical aspects, to become functional to the hunter. In substance a Cocker can be totally “out hand" even if hunting to few about ten meters from the rifle (for instance in dense woods that visual control makes towards the dog obstructive from the conductor, or if completely indifferent to the calls or to the commands imparted to him); it will be more easily considered "out hand" when its action will constantly be practiced to such distances by not to be able the wild found over the range of shooting of the rifle; of meantime will be considered out hand if not obedient to the commands or if not connected with the conductor, a Cocker totally independent and deleterious to the correct use of the same to hunting. The methodology of research must have effected according to the ground: in grounds substantially open it will be of ample side lacet potentially developed in front of the conductor in progression of intersection in the direction of undertaken patrol, the geometry of the same is predominantly orderly with an analytical investigation of the ground. To such intention it is not possible, both for the psycho structural characteristics of the Cocker, of the conditions of the wind, of the vegetation, of the shrewdness of the wild ones, to pretend an univocal coverage from the beginning at the end of the job, but it will be suitable of time in time in base to the structural / environmental conditions of the moment. In the wood the method of research must substantially be orderly and projected in the modular one the ampleness of the lacets in hold correlation to the visibility granted by the vegetation of the brushwood avoiding broken down foolish in vertical along the manager of march, but inspecting every where with good method and in complete connection. In the ways of hunting long edges of wood, banks or other, the action of beat will primarily be planned on the ground that can determine a natural shelter to the game. If before penetrating in the vegetation, our assistant, completes out a glance with the purpose to verify the presence of a possible external footstep is function of big perspicacity. Once made then such type of check the job must minutely have developed inside the vegetation with continuous exits to the outside not to also neglect the ground from the opposite part and to sustain in connection. Once hooked a footstep the rhythm of execution on the same one it will be based above all from the entity of the orgasm of the wild, if more or less light. This is the bewitching and exciting phase of the whole job, the walk will be determined, the tail has frantically moved to signalling of the important job of discover, the head will have lowered below the dorsal line, nearer possible to the ground to gain better the emanation, all of its attitudes will be of maximum excitement, demonstrative towards the conductor of the imminent flutter or squirt of the wild one, clear movements expressly as it is the immobility of the pointer in front of the wild one. The everything is not only superfluous attitude stylistic, but intelligent and concrete collaboration of the dog towards the conductor in to furnish the jewel warning of the presence of the wild one. If the assistant doesn't give a good expression of skirmish of the contact with the emanation, the impression is that it's casually get into the wild one. It is demerit to penalize. The expressiveness of the taking of point must be always highest and particularly evident than it is happening, the footstep must be works with speed and decision, if in the research of footstep a wild gets up to the side or straight behind the passage of the dog it must leave that the same concludes its job because, especially in presence of others wild, the research of footstep of one can bring well over the abode of the others. If finished the action, the dog doesn't put in movement the wild signalled and notified, it means that it has not known how to read and to correctly interpret the trace of the animal in escape, therefore, according to the events, it will deal with passing or neglect of useful game. It can happen in some cases in which the wild one is stationary, of that the dog interrupts the action and shows an indication of firm, or that shortly results in to force the game. This doesn't constitute anything else other than a merit and a further refinement, signaller of the elevated mental equilibrium of the dog, that so doing avoids, during the research of footstep, to surpass the wild still or finally to give the conclusive hit of drive out in inaccurate way. The opposite dog however it always has to manifest the tall state of excitement, the movement of tail must be turned on and frenetic and to the order of the conductor it will obligatorily have to force without delays the game. If instead during the indication of firm, the dog shows insecurity or shortage of verve, insufficiency in the conclusive determination or even fear of the wild one, the everything must be seriously penalized. If instead the action of drive out some dog finds the natural conclusion with the exact determination of the point of escape of the wild one in front of the face of the dog, really in the moment in which the hunter aims the weapon to shoot, the absolute immobility will be demanded to the squirt or to the flutter, so to avoid that it interpose in the line of shooting. The principal motivation is easily deducible in how much the possible run up or the attempt to lean out for seizing the prey, could result to him fatal or strongly injurious to its safety. Another valid aspect for which must be the immobility of the dog pretended to the departure of the wild one is purely inherent in the same fact that it can gather better the exact line manager of the parable of fall of the wild one and finally of the exact location of the same dejected head on the ground. A rash pursuit of a wild, even also not stricken, can cause the imprudent flight or departure of other present game in the parts, which can happen in the moment in which the hunter is with the weapon by to reload. In the cases in which the dog has a partial or total obstruction of the visual field and to make sure the view brings to him of his initiative in position to satisfy a best visual perspective for better locating and to memorize the point of impact of the wild stricken with the ground, this gesture never owes to be interpreted as element of demerit but also as talent of intelligence and sagacity of good assistant. Once struck the wild one, fallen to the ground, hare or rabbit rolled for earth, the dog is granted to go to perform the bring back. The bring back, located once the point of beat and insured the wild one with good taking among the jaws, it is to pretend prompt and jovial, brought with tall head that unloads the weight on the shoulders. To the trot or to the gallop, it doesn't make distinction provided that is always spirited with the well active and frenetic movement of tail. The to lick the prey, the to try to pluck it, the not to want to bite or to do it with little conviction, is aspects of demerit that must be appraised in the circumstance of the case. Different thing will be instead the demonstration of obstinacy in to want tidy better the wild one for a best taking, still more if the wild one results to be still alive and it tries to release from the jaws of the dog. Attention must be lent to the type of vegetation or conformation of the ground in which the wild one is fallen slashed from shot, in how much a pheasant of almost two kilos or a hare of four-five kilos, is not some one comfort baggage for a Cocker of twelve kilos, and at times the intrigues of the vegetation are such from the passage of the dog to make almost impossible with in mouth the wild one. If the Cocker helps him dragging the prey, having bite it for a wing, for a leg or for the neck, this must be tolerated, rather, considered as real demonstration of obstinacy and extreme will to provide for the difficulties created by the environmental conditions. Sometimes the dog, after having bite the prey, acts the head with violent jolts to win the resistance of the animal that intends to rebel. The judge distinguishes the strong taking from the hard tooth or rather the vice to rage on the prey. The strong taking is motivated from the fact of not to grant further possibility of escape to the wild one, especially if it is wounded in light way and it defends him as it is able towards the dog; otherwise the hard tooth is the clear demonstration of wish to rage on the wild one, especially if died, inactive or in the total possibility to rebel. Sometimes, to forehead of a fought recovery, the wild one can introduce some lesions on the regions dorsal and / or of the tail. Even if of first impact the thing can appear as element to penalize, but it could be instead also the consequence of a difficulty and hard-working capture. The judge must appraise if similar lacerations are due to the direct wish of the dog or if they are due to extraneous situations to the dog himself as for example due to shot, to the fall of the same or to other still... however in the case of possible doubtful aspects in worth must be stretched out for the dog. If the dog refuses to bite, therefore to bring a wild torn to pieces by an awkward shot, has the whole right of it, rather it must not be inflicts to him some penalty, provided that the fool is evident and considerable. If the wild one after having been stricken succeeds in escaping from the point of beat to the ground or from the point where stricken has been from the shot using the strengths remained him, then the bring back evolves him in recovery. And if the dog cannot pursue to sight it obligatorily has to work of nose so that better deciphering the footstep. More precisely and quickly he will succeed in hooking the wild more the recovery will be directed and functional. In these eventualities the research is more addressed to work in the direction of escape of the wild one more it will result decisive and less wearing out in coming and going, chaotic and anxious. Which attitudes engaged with actions of unrestrained impetus according to the circumstances can also reveal harmful or disturbed to the possibility of other presence of game. More it can depend on a good training of the dog to correctly perform the form of the blind bring back to command. It is to avoid the dispatch to the bring back on long distances. In the way of re-entry it is granted to the dog to readjust of the taking, also supporting again in earth the prey for then bite again quickly so that to continue and to complete the operation action of this it must be valued some factors as the distance of the bring back, the massive structure of the game, the different environmental conditions and every thing can complicate the carrying out. The bring back from the water, in how much performed in not accessible situation to the man, it is him to consider as recover. The brought prey or recovered must have handed in the hands of the conductor with cheerfulness as if he wanted reward him of the aspired prey. Technical committee of the Club Italian Spaniel - Sori, June 26th 2006 (approved by the Advisory Committee of the Experts by the Directive Suggestion of the ENCI October 3rd 2006)
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