Description: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a well-proportioned little dog. The head is slightly rounded and the snout slightly conical, its nose is black. His teeth meet in a scissors bite. They have dark brown eyes that are set wide apart, with dark eye rims and beautiful round eyes. This generates long ears that sit high and are covered in feathers. This one is medium in length and matches his fur, which is silky. The tail is usually left natural, but in some countries, where cutting is allowed, it can be cut off by as much as a third.
This dog has feathers on its chest, legs, ears, and tail. Colors include Prince Charles, which is tricolor, King Charles, which is black and tan, Blenheim, which is red and white, Ruby, which is deep mahogany red. Blenheim dogs may have a chestnut-red patch on the top of their heads between their ears, but this is not essential.
History: The Cavalier was named after King Charles II. This Spaniel is descended from the King Charles Spaniel. This was then crossed with pugs, this gave a smaller dog with a flatter nose and more rounded head, the dogs we see today are from this breed. In 1920, Roswell Eldridge offered prize money in London to breeders for any dogs with longer noses that he intended to use for breeding purposes. The spaniel is seen in Van Dyck’s paintings of King Charles II and his spaniel. In 1940, this breed was credited as a separate breed and was shown in the AKC Toy group, beginning in 1996.
