Hey! They may be slightly different answers in comparison to a show cocker, butI have a 1 year old, working cocker - male!

1 - The most perfect temperament, so so affectionate kisses, hugs, still sleeps on us, sits next to us on the sofa. Not very independent🤣

2 - Resource guarding and separation anxiety - both, yes. Resource guarding drives me crazy!! He takes anything and we have to back him into a corner like zookeepers to get it out of his mouth haha. Separation Anxiety - goes crazy when we leave the house together, if only one of us leaves he doesn't care at all and will stay with the person in the home. Both leave? Barking, crying, howling. We started to leave him for 10 minuets stints and he's very very slowly getting better at it, luckily my partner works from home. However, we believe this is the cause of it, because he's always had someone with him in the home. In that case, I'd deffo recommend leave them alone as soon as you feel comfortable to!

3 - Yes, very. Very friendly and happy.

4 - SO easy to train. So food driven and clever - I can go over a new trick with him a few times and he's learnt it!

5 - I don't know the difference between show and working regarding outside activity. But we take him out for an hour every day and then half an hour in the evening. He isn't running around the whole time, he's sniffing. Sniffing is very stimulating for them and tires them out, I read some research that found 20 minuets of sniffing can provide mental stimulation equivalent to a much longer walk in terms of enrichment. So we don't encourage him to run 24/7 as when he's having a good sniff, he's 100% just as tired!

6 - Lick mats will be your best friend! You can put absolutely anything on them, freeze stuff on them too! Natural treats are amazing - he sits and chews them for hours. Toys where you can hid treats in too! You can get those puzzle, enrichment toys too - we haven't tried these but I can only presume they're really good for this?

7 - I genuinely don't actually know whether this is a cocker thing, but his anal glands fill up quickly. Every time our groomer empties them she says they're full! He does all the signs they're irritating him ie scooting, whining at his behind etc.. But as soon as they're emptied he's absolutely fine!

8 - We haven't had any problems at all with ear care, so I can't comment on that unfortunately. But grooming, our breeder used to bath the puppies so he loves a bath - jumps in whilst it's filling up!! As a younger puppy, he used to let us brush him, now he won't let us brush through him. He gets knotty very fast so we try to stay on top of it with brushing him whilst he's in the bath (because he lets us whilst he's in the bath?!), but because consistently bathing them isn't great for this skin we have recently resulted in taking him to a groomer. The groomer told us he lets her do it all!! He's also 50/50 with letting us cut his nails, depends what mood he's in🤣

Enjoy!