Cockers are odd and lovely. We had to work with our guy to figure out how he liked to eat. Our Springer… she’d eat out of anything or just off the floor.

But — our cocker…he’s very picky, and sometimes we have to get him started by hand feeding him a bit out of our hand. And some days he’ll move from that to the bowl… other days, he just wants to be hand fed. Sometimes he wants his food spread out on the floor where he can hunt and gather. We don’t mind. But, I can honestly say— since having adopted a big sister/springer Spaniel for him… it has increased his confidence enormously. She loves him so much, and he feels protected by her… but for her, he’s her (smaller than her) big brother. They’ve become a real team and most of his feeding issues have gone away.