NANCARROW CINAMON
"Java" 

sire: Maesydderwen Kestrel
dam: Nancarrow Fire´n Ice
breeder: Mr Hedley Millington 
born 98 06 01

Pedigree: see below

Nancarrow Cinamon was imported from Great Britian in september 1998 as a 3,5 months old pup from kennel Nancarrow (Mr Hedley Millington, Truro, Cornwall).. Java is strongly line-breeded on GBFTCH Swallolaw Snipe, whom I saw at the first time at the  Game Fair in Wales, summer -89. He made a great impression on me.   

 Java who a liver bitch had her first hunting season in -99 but my impression have been that it has been crucial to not be in a hurry when training her. She has a great confidence in herself, nothing seems to worry her, and still as lively as one wish a cocker to be.This temperament, a confident and lively type, may give the impression that the cocker is more mature than she actually is. My experience is that this type of temperament is rather common in working-cockers.  

The first training lessons started when Java was at the age of 9 months. We started with basic training and moved on slowly. I think Java is a typical cocker character that spaniel people often talk warmly about. I have learned that encouragement is far much better way than the opposite when training my cockers. This way to train also suit my own temperament. The backside of this is that I have never reached full control over my cockers, but on the other hand, they have always had good stamina and happiness when working with me. In field trials it might be just be the greatest event OR it might be that my cockers have been invaded by a small devil as Keith Erlandson wrote about when he described cocker spaniel temperament.

I also aggree with Carl Colclought interviewed in Mike Smith's book "Working cockers & springers" that the way to train a cocker is to make them beleive that they are doing the excercise for their own sake. A springer may be trained in a more rightforward way.

If one should describe Java's looks, she is a very good looking working cocker. She has a great and strong bone, straight legs, well-angulated in front and rear and a really nice head with good expression.

Java* s litters
Java is a lovely and a very keen mother. She takes the best care of her puppies and one has nothing to do with the puppies before the third or fourth week. She keeps the whelping-box clean, has lots with milk and takes care of the puppies as good as one ever can desire. Up til today she have had three litters with 7 puppies in each of them. The first two litters consisted almost only of dogs, but the third was the opposite, only one dog and bitches for the rest.   

PEDIGREE
NANCARROW CINAMON
 

GBFTCH = Great Britian Field Trial Champion