About

Arcata English Cocker Spaniels

 Welcome to ARCATA ENGLISH COCKER SPANIELS

Where Temperaments are our #1 Criteria 

Catherine Nikiforow
Bostic, North Carolina
  
cell (828) 748-8727

arcata@tds.net
A little about the Breed. .
English Cocker Spaniels are a VERY special breed. They are highly intelligent, and are VERY people oriented. They are NOT the breed for you if you do not have someone home at least part of the day, if you are not prepared to brush and comb them at least once a day, if you are not prepared to or do not have the time to take a puppy to obedience classes. You should start out with puppy socialization classes when the pup first arrives in your home, and the Breeder of your puppy will give you guidelines on the type of classes your puppy should be involved with at various stages of it's life. If you are not prepared to make a committment to grooming and training your English Cocker puppy, then maybe this is not the Breed for you.

Ebony - How we started in this Breed!
Arcata English Cockers came into being in 1987 when I bought my first English Cocker--Lorbob's Alltime Ebony, (black girl--original name huh!) We were living in Singapore and a friend had English Cockers. When her bitch had a litter I was drawn to the only black in the litter...a fiesty baby girl called Ebony. Once the pups were 3 weeks old I started visting on a daily basis and became more attached to Ebony. When the pups were around ten weeks old I brought my husband to visit and of course, Ebony came running to me! I told my husband that she had picked me....later I did confess that I had been visiting and that Ebony and I had "bonded"! He agreed that she had always seemed destined for us. She is now 14 years old (as of 8/21/2001) and still thinks she is a young pup! She swims as soon as ice melts on the pond and continues all Summer and Fall. She has been an absolute delight and hopefully will be for many more years. The photo (seen next page) was taken when Ebony was around eight years of age and we were living in Texas, now we are living in New Hampshire and don't have a swimming pool, but we have a huge pond and a winding brook that is inhabitated by rock trout that Ebony loves to frighten and chase. I think by now they know she is not a threat, but we won't let her know ! Ebony, celebrated her birthday by taking a swim in the pond, chasing a wild duck who was minding it's own business in the pond, tackling one of our German Shepherds for a stick thrown into the pond (Ebony won!) and finally eating a McDonalds cheeseburger and fries, then she took an afternoon nap! All our other EC's joined in a chorus of Happy Birthday later in the day with lots of howls!

 **Ebony passed over to the Rainbow Bridge on December 17th, 2001. Rest well my sweet girl.** 


 Some Great Places To Visit
English Cocker Spaniel Club of America. . .

ECSCA National English Cocker Friends

Billsor English Cockers (Belgium)

Arcata English Cocker Spaniels/ Catherine Nikiforow,

PO Box 536, South Sutton, NH 03273

 Phone: (603) 927-4937 - cell (603) 748-0162

 arcata@tds.net