We receive over 400 calls a year to help homeless cockers. As amazing as it may seem, thousands upon thousands of cockers are bred each year for pet stores by puppy mills and backyard breeders. The American Kennel Club registered 41,439 cocker spaniels in 1997, and this figure doesn't count the vast number of dogs that were never registered. Cockers have become commonplace orphans in animal shelters and pounds.
Foster homes provide temporary respite for cockers awaiting adoption.
If none are available, local kennels must be used, especially if there is a dog in an abusive situation. Our goal is 100 new members. Instead he's alive and thriving in his permanent foster home with five other cockers as playmates. Fremont was cured of advanced heartworm disease and now snoozes in his very own bed with a family who adores him. Copper's useless leg, left untended after a car accident, is now functioning with the use of a brace, and he is romping with his terrier friend in his new home.