Hello all,

I've just gone into the Cocker Spaniel Club website to become a member, but it says that I need to have a proposer and a seconder.  As I am pretty new to cockers, is there anyone out there that can suggest a way for me to become a member, I don't show my spaniel and I will be competing in Working Trials (not tests), but I guess that as I have a working cocker, I would be in the FT section. Can I still join!!

I had the same issue with the Lab Retriever club, but got that sorted in the end. Should I just contact the FT organiser?

Any help, greatly appreciated (as ever)

Ali :)

You could ask the breeder of your dog to propose you and they would probably find a seconder.  If not what about any training club you attend there will probably be members there who feel they know you enough.

I would phone the secretary of the Cocker club and explain that you don't know any of the members so that you could approach them as proposer's & seconder's, she may be able to help out and I'm sure she'd understand, I bet you haven't been the only one.

Thanks guys,

Unfortunately, my breeder is no longer breeding Spaniels, and my dog club seems to have a distinct lack of cockers at present. (They're like buses, I'm sure they'll suddenly be millions!). As our club is mostly a pet club, and then a Working Trials club, we don't get many people coming who are into the whole breeding side of things and working cockers seem to be scarcer thean hens teeth as pets (oh, I wonder why :) ;) ).

I think I will try to ring the secretary and explain.

Thanks again

Ali :)