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Welcome to Jim Zim's Cocker Spaniel web site! Jim is an American Cocker Spaniel breeder located on the central coast of California
in San Luis Obispo county.
This site is full of pictures of Jim's three parti color Cockers (Haylee,
Joanna, and Morgan) as well as photos of some of the adorable puppies he has raised over the years. You'll also see some of
Jim's
previous Cockers, and in the online Cocker forum you'll have the opportunity to
talk to other Cocker lovers from all around the world.
Scroll down the page to see a lot more!
Check out Jim's tips on owning a Cocker, and find out about the special methods
he uses to raise and socialize Cocker puppies so that they will make great pets.
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 previous Zim 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 4300 registered forum members... and they talk about almost every aspect of Cocker
ownership!
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The biggest social event of the year is coming up in just a few weeks!
Cocker lovers from all around California will be converging on San Luis Obispo
county over the weekend of September 25th. If you love Cockers (regardless
of whether you actually have one or not) you should come and join us for this
event. It will be a bit of a celebration of Joanna's litter of puppies, a
bit of a wake for the end of our breeding program, and a bit of a reunion for
puppies from the litters we've had over the years.
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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 a gigantic video production on two DVDs, and there's a lot of fun and personality in
it... I hope you enjoy it! If you don't need the DVD but you do
need some suggestions on what grooming equipment to buy, take a look
here.
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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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It's been a long time since there was a litter of puppies
here at the Zim house, but that's just recently changed! My one final litter
(before I retire from breeding dogs) was born in July and will be going to new
homes at the end of September. WOW are they cute! I've got lots of
pictures to share. Just remember, all of these pups have new homes waiting
for them and I will not be having any further litters after this... so
please don't write asking about adopting or purchasing a puppy.
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There's a very sophisticated remotely-controlled camera positioned inside our
Puppy Palace, and you've got full access 24/7. Take a look at what our
puppies are up to right this very minute... and if you see anything that
interests you, you can zoom in or move the camera around for a better look.
Firefox and Google Chrome users will have no problems in viewing the webcam
right from the start. Internet Explorer users: look for a yellow bar
towards the top of your browser which will ask your permission to install two
plug-ins that will make the camera work with Internet Explorer. Once you
give I.E. permission to download and install those two plug-ins, you'll be good
to go.
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There's been some really great news and some really horrible news around here
lately. I started the year feeling like I was on top of the world...
with the best dog I've ever had getting the championship title that she so very
much deserved. But it's a long fall from the top of the world. Just
a few short months after becoming a champion, that fantastic show dog was
blind with cataracts in both eyes. And that was just the start of the bad
news!
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Get the full story on all three of the Zim dogs...
Morgan (the good-natured Alpha dog), Joanna (an exceptional mother), and Haylee (our very
first champion show dog). You'll find lots of adorable pictures of our Cockers, including
some large versions suitable for use as your computer desktop background.
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I've taken so many great photos over the years that it
finally dawned on me that I had the basis of a great coffee-table book.
You'll find all the photos that I'm most proud of in this 100 page book
called "Parti Color American Cocker Spaniels (and the people who love them)".
You can view the entire book online for free, and if you like it... you
can order a real hard copy for yourself.
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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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Almost every Cocker Spaniel will have problems with ear infections during his/her 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. I 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
my web site will show you how to locate Cockers in shelters near you, and
I'll share some success stories from the hundreds of Cocker rescues that this
web site has helped to facilitate.
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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 me cover some of the costs of keeping it running. There are two easy ways you can help 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
my way. The
more you spend with Amazon after clicking on that ad to the left, the more they send
my way. I
pay the costs of hosting this site and the forum from this Amazon money.
Due to the extremely high amount of traffic and bandwidth on the Cocker forum,
these web hosting costs now exceed $600 per year. Another way you can help us cover 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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