The English springer spaniel is considered to be the founder of all English hunting spaniels. During the Renaissance, European hunters thought it to be the ideal hunting companion. It is believed that the spaniel came to England from Spain with the Romans, and in Spain it split into two kinds: the land spaniel and the water spaniel. It was then divided into several different breeds. The litters of land spaniels were thought to have been divided by size: the small ones became cocker spaniels, the medium-sized ones were named springer spaniels, and the largest of the litter were eventually called setters. It is said that the name springer spaniel comes from the dog's ability to flush out or "spring" game, and the first reference to this kind of dog appeared in the late 1500s before the advent of shotguns. It was around 1800 when specific lines of springer spaniels were bred, that a well-known dog was bred by the Duke of Norfolk...... Find out more obout this dog breed.
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