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We are American Cocker Spaniel breeders located on the central coast of California.
This web site is full of pictures of our five parti color Cockers (Dodger, Morgan,
Joanna, Reese & Pipa) as well as photos of some of the adorable puppies we've raised over the years.
You'll also see some of our
previous Cockers, and a few other great Cocker pictures from around the world.
Scroll down the page to see a lot more!
Check out our tips on owning a Cocker, and find out how we raise and socialize Cockers in a family environment.
First-time
visitor to our web site? Read this!
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the Zim Family:
American Cocker Spaniel
breeder located in
San Luis Obispo county, California
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To begin exploring this web site,
please click on one of the following items:
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An online community of Cocker lovers
from all around the world... sharing information and photos! Have a question or a comment that you'd like to direct
to other Cocker owners? Have a story about your dog, or a picture that you
would like to share with the world? Want to see how our puppies are doing at their new homes? Want to hear
from other people who are as fanatical about Cocker Spaniels as you are? Our Cocker forum is the place to do all
that, and more. We have over 3200 registered forum members... and they talk about almost every aspect of Cocker
ownership!
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This is something that will be useful to just about anyone that owns a Cocker Spaniel: an instructional
(and entertaining!) DVD which shows you how to do your own Cocker grooming. Stop paying a professional groomer to
do what you can do yourself! Find out about what equipment you have to have to get the job done, and get a preview
of exactly what's on the DVD. It's our biggest video production ever, and there's a lot of fun and personality in
it... we hope you enjoy it!
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If you've never owned a Cocker before, but you'd like to find out more about the breed...
this is the page for you. I've put together some basic information about both the good and bad aspects of the
breed... plus, there are photos that show just about all of the various
coat colors that Cockers come in.
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Get the full story on all five of the Zim dogs... including
Meg, our newest addition! You'll find lots of adorable pictures of our Cockers, including
some large versions suitable for use as your computer desktop background.
You can even vote for your favorite dog in our web poll.
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See a new picture of all four Zim girls sitting together, and find out about how things are going around here now that Meg is the only one of Joanna's puppies
still with us. Also, read about some big changes in our breeding program, as we say goodbye to some dear old
friends and hello to some new additions in the coming months.
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Hundreds of adorable pictures of our pups from the last few years, with
commentary from the photographer. Sit back and be entertained by some great photos of cute Cocker Spaniel puppies!
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Find out about our breeding plans for 2009 and 2010... and read about how we choose homes for our pups and what type of people we like to place our
puppies with. Here's a clue: it has nothing to do with who can call us on the telephone first!
You can also see pictures of our most recent litter of puppies, which went to their new homes on November 9th.
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See pictures from our May 2008 Pupapalooza, where Cocker lovers from all over California met for a
weekend-long party
here in San Luis Obispo county. While Pupapalooza began years ago as a reunion of the puppies from our
previous litters, it has definitely evolved in to a gigantic social event for Cocker lovers from all over the state of
California!
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Almost every Cocker Spaniel will have problems with ear infections during his lifetime...
some so severe that they could require surgery. Many Cocker owners have spent big bucks at the vet treating ear
infections, only to have the infections return over and over again. We'll share the not-so-secret-recipe for an
ear cleaning solution that will completely solve this problem for most dogs.
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If you're looking for a Cocker to add to your
family, and you don't want to put up with potty training and all the chewing that goes along with
raising a puppy... you might want to consider rescuing an adult. The rescue section of our web site will show you how to locate Cockers in shelters near you, and
we'll share some success stories from over 250 Cockers that we've had a hand in placing in forever homes.
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Here's a collection of some of the best photos I've ever taken with my various
digital cameras. I've sized them so that they'll be perfect as your Windows desktop background... and I've
included instructions on how to turn them in to a screensaver slideshow, too.
They're free for your personal, non-commercial use... but if you want to use these pictures for anything other
than your desktop background, you need to get my permission first, OK?
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Here are answers to some of the questions I seem to get over and over in my inbox! Save yourself some time
and read this first before you email me.
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There are several products such as flea treatments, grooming tools, and chew toys that
will make the life of a Cocker owner a whole lot easier. Learn from our experiences over the last 30+ years and
try some of the products we wouldn't want to live without! If you've ever wondered things like "what size crate
should I use?" or "what kind of electric clippers work best?", this is the page for you.
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Here's an easy recipe for homemade dog biscuits that will leave your Cocker begging for more! We pass along the complete
directions to making our dogs' favorite treats so that you never have to get store-bought biscuits again.
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This may actually be the most fun part of the entire web site! Over the years, I've
shot a lot of video of our dogs and our puppies playing and having fun... and made a lot of slideshows of my still
pictures. Browse through my collection, and enjoy!
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If you find this web site useful, and appreciate the effort it took to create it... please consider
helping us cover some of the costs of keeping it running. There are two easy ways you can help us out. If you click on the ad
over to the left for Amazon.com, and then make any purchase from them, they will send a commission our way. The
more you spend with Amazon after clicking on that ad to the left, the more they send our way. We use that money to
pay the costs of hosting this site and our forum. Another way you can help us cover our
costs is to make a direct donation via the link on the right. We're using these donations (and Amazon commissions)
to cover the costs we pay for our web server. Due to the extremely high amount of traffic on our Cocker forum, our
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Questions? Comments?
Read this first, and then
feel free to send an email to Jim Zimmerlin
I'd love it if you'd attach pictures of your Cocker Spaniel, too.
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