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The CockerSpaniel - one of America's favorite pure-bred dogs - is known as the "smallest member of the sporting-dog family," and has been exhibited in the United States since the early 1880s.
A further division separated the land spaniels on a basis of size, when the "cockers" and the very small or toy spaniels were separated from spaniels of larger dimensions.
The toys eventually became the English Toy Spaniels which were maintained principally as pets or comforters, while the Cockers retained their early classification as sporting dogs.