Breed: Working Cocker Spaniel
Date of birth: 26/01/2025
Gender: Female
Neck circumference: 31cm
Chest circumference: 53cm
Base of neck to base of tail: 48cm
Height to shoulder: 30cm
Weight: 11.25kg

General Description

Her first professional credit involved a blind date and a heart-shaped pizza. Jessie was photographed opposite a male cocker at Rudy’s in Liverpool for a charity calendar, taking February, which tells you she handles an unusual brief with total composure. In person she is warm, soft-natured and quietly clever, a rich chocolate spaniel who greets everyone with real delight then settles the moment the fuss is over. She loves having a job to do and loves pleasing the people giving it to her, which is a combination that makes training swift and directing effortless.

The Cocker takes its name from the woodcock, the game bird it was bred to flush from dense undergrowth, and the spaniel family itself carries an older association with Spain in its name. English Cockers gained Kennel Club recognition in 1893 and the breed later split into two distinct types: the heavier show line and the lighter, faster working line Jessie belongs to, bred purely for stamina and drive in the field. That working temperament is why the type has become a fixture of modern detection work, sniffing out everything from contraband to wildlife crime evidence. In public life the breed has rarely been out of view, from Lady in Disney’s 1955 classic to Lupo and Orla in the Prince and Princess of Wales’s household, and the Cocker spent years at the top of British registration tables after the war.

Her socialisation is exceptional. Alongside dogs, children and strangers, she has met rabbits, cats, tortoises, horses, goats, sheep and highland cows without turning a hair. She is distraction proof, indifferent to food on set, patient through long sessions and entirely unbothered by loud noise, treating anything unfamiliar with curiosity rather than concern. She has already worked under professional lighting and flash. She is not spayed, has no medical concerns and travels happily.

Jessie has the toolkit for tightly choreographed work. She holds eye contact on a watch-me cue, can be placed anywhere and left there, halts instantly on an emergency stop and drops silent when asked for quiet, which makes her simple to work into dialogue-heavy scenes. She takes a long stay without fidgeting and responds to a whistle at range, so a handler can direct her from well outside the frame.

Her retrieving instinct gives directors plenty of narrative business. She fetches, carries an item in her mouth, drops it precisely where instructed and can place an object deliberately rather than just abandoning it, a level of control that opens up storylines where the dog delivers something crucial. She hunts out hidden items, picks her ball from among other objects and tracks a moving point with her eyes. Add confident off-lead work, water work, a willingness to duck under and through obstacles and springing in and out of a vehicle, and she suits countryside drama, gundog and farming settings, detection storylines and family adventure alike.

That glossy chocolate coat and those long feathered ears are made for rich, warm imagery, sitting handsomely against tweed, tartan, heathered knitwear and copper-toned autumn styling. Country clothing, gundog equipment, walking and wellington brands, rural lifestyle publications and premium pet accessory ranges are all natural territory, and she already has studio lighting experience behind her.

She is remarkably accommodating about wardrobe. Clothing, hats, glasses, a muzzle and a GoPro all go on without complaint, and she is comfortable being suspended in a harness, which is unusual and makes her viable for creative rigging, aerial and dynamic shots that most dogs rule out. Because she genuinely ignores food in frame, treat, nutrition and grocery clients can shoot with product in shot rather than around it. She sits pretty with paws raised for the sweeter frames, plays tug for anything needing energy and catches an item cleanly mid-air for toy and enrichment brands. Her established Instagram and TikTok presence plus her ease at meet-and-greets make her an easy fit for influencer collaborations, in-store events and charity campaigns, and Abigail is happy to appear alongside her for owner-and-dog work.