Hello and welcome to our own little chunk of the web. Cwnhelabach translated from Welsh means Little Hunting Dogs, and is our Kennel Club Affix. Having the ability to hunt and find game is the reason for the existence of the Working Cocker Spaniel. These little dogs with correct field training are in my opinion the best little game finding and retrieving machines you could wish for, but I am heavily biased being owned by three of them.

   The main purpose of this site is to offer interested people pups from the forthcoming mating of our cocker bitch Kali (FTAW Grouseseeker Mischief with Cwnhelabach) to Scrappy (FtCh Maesydderwen Spartan).

   From our own experience with Kali's previous litter and also because of the excellent reports from the people who bought the pups, we again decided to use Peter Jones's black Champion dog Scrappy   FtCh Maesydderwen Spartan to cover her.

Kali gave birth to seven pups on the 12th of March 2010.





   Kali is an honest, very willing to please and therefore easily trained little girl. she has a current clear eye test certificate (July 2009) and a hip score of 8, being raw fed from 8 weeks old she has never had a days illness, her pups will be weaned on a raw food diet, and will be put through the Superdog Programme to give them a flying start through early neurological stimulation.

    Since her pups will only go to working homes and in order to comply with The Animal Welfare Act 2007 they will be docked, dew clawed, and microchipped, unless the prospective new owners are know to me I shall require a written statement to the effect that each pup will be worked.

   To her credit she has achieved the Bronze and Silver Kennel Club Good Citizens Award Scheme levels, she passed The Preliminary Stage of the old format Kennel Club Working Gundog Certificate at only 11 months old, I believe the youngest dog to do so at that time.



   When the birds are out of the pens Kali is taken dogging in on a local shoot most early mornings and evenings, she loves this work and in the shooting season is found in the beating line almost every Saturday, she is also ocasionally shot over on a couple of small walked up local shoots. Indoors I only have to put on my game vest, reach for the whistle and she is there at my feet tail wagging and ready to go. I don't have to call her.

Kali has been entered in several gundog demos and she has ran in the 3 Counties Show gundog team scurries, together with Fern and Charlie two other Working Cockers, and Puzzle a Springer, they set a new all time record of 40 seconds!

   She has also won awards and trophies in various Game Fair Gundog scurries, apart for her outright wins she has been placed more times than I care to remember, but it's only the wins that really excite. I wonder if after her litter is born, will she still be able to hold her ground against the up and coming younger scurry dogs in 2010? only time will tell.

Kali loves her time in the field and her training sessions with me, in fact she lives for it.

In 2007 Kali attained the following
   3rd in the Worcestershire Gundog Society Spaniel Novice Test, 17/3/07
   COM in the Coventry and District Gundog Society Novice Test, 25/3/07
   COM in the Leicestershire Gundog Society Open Test, 1/4/07
   4th in the Beta Cocker Working Test, 6/5/07
   2nd in the Chiltern Water Test, 13/5/07
   4th in the Dove Valley Novice Test, 20/5/07
   COM in the London Cocker Society Novice Test, 1/7/07

   COM in the Chiltern Novice Cocker Trial 15/12/07

We had a very successful scurry season in 2008
   Two wins in the Countryways Multi Scurry Challenge, qualifiing her for the Scurry Bandits Best of the Best
   Two wins in the B.A.S.C. Scurries
   Frampton Game Fair Hartpury Cup Winner, on the Land and Water Two Dummy.
   Frampton Game Fair Bales Scurry.
   The Welsh Gundog Scurries Top Dog Trophy
   The Welsh Gundog Scurries Five Dummy Pick Up Trophy
   The Welsh Gundog Scurries Land and Water Two Dummy

This last Summer 2009 we have had a little bit of luck in the following events
   The Hartpury Cup for the Two Dummy Pick Up, at Frampton Game Fair, her second successive win
   The Welsh Top Scurry Dog Female Handler Cup, Kali won this event with my wife handling her for the first time
   The Welsh Two Dummy Pick Up, again being handled by my wife
   The Welsh Land and Water Scurry, again handled by Maureen, O.K. so don't rub it in
   Winner Takes All Scurry at Cricklade, handled by me (I had to put that in)
   Two Wins in the Countryways Multi Scurry Challenge, again qualifing twice for the Scurry Bandits Best of The Best
   Mitsubishi Partridge Pen winner on the Sunday at the Midland

We also managed a couple of 4th placings in Gundog Tests.



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