CHAMPIONSHIP and OPEN SHOWS

30th March 2025

Schedules available soon

Online entries will be available but please email us if you would like to receive a printed copy. (Scroll to bottom of page for contact info)

FIELD TRIAL

Wednesday 13th November 2024
at Stubton Estate, Lincolnshire

Results and Photos now online

The Welsh Springer Spaniel was voted BREED OF THE YEAR at Pawscars 2024

New Year Get Together and Welsh Springer Walk at Oxwich Bay

Croeso/Welcome,

OXWICH BAY - New Year Get-together and Beach Walk

A happy gathering at Oxwich Bay today (Sunday 12th January 2025) with absolutely stunning weather. There were about 16 Welshies with their owners along despite the late change of date and they all enjoyed the unseasonal January sunshine. Their humans finished off with a well earned cuppa and slice of cake at the cafe on the beach. - check out the photos on our gallery website.

The Welsh Springer Spaniel is a strong, merry active spaniel easily identified by its rich red and white coat. This type of dog was bred for hunting rabbits, birds and other game in the undergrowth and getting them to run or fly, originally for the falcon but nowadays for the gun.

This was the original meaning of 'springing' and hence the term 'springer'. In the principality of Wales, the Welsh Springer Spaniel was known as a separate and distinct variety and can be traced with certainty to the eighteenth century, although the term 'spaniel' was first found in the 1300s. It is the only breed of gundog native to Wales.

The Welsh Springer Spaniel Club of South Wales was founded in 1980. It's the only club in Wales which is specifically dedicated to furthering the interests of the Welsh Springer Spaniel.

Whether you show, work or just keep your dog as a pet, the Club has something for everyone.

With two Open Shows and a Championship Show annually together with working assessment tests, regular gundog training days, show ring-craft training, agility, obedience, Show Gundog Working Certificate, fun days, and grooming demonstrations etc., we keep ourselves extremely busy.

The Club is particularly active in the South Wales area but membership is open to all Welsh Springer enthusiasts wherever you live and advice on any aspect of Welsh Springer Spaniel owning or breeding is readily and freely available to all members.