Last Updated on May 18, 2025 by Simon James
Cockapoo For Life
Simon James founded the Cockapoo For Life Website 10 years ago to help people find a Rescue Cockapoo or buy a Cockapoo puppy safely.
He has an interest and compassion for all dogs but particularly Cocker breeds (Cockerpoos and Cocker Spaniels) due to their friendly temperament, beautiful features, and intelligent playful nature that always make family activities more fun!
Simon is a lifelong dog owner going back to his childhood growing up with Labradors. He studied at Greenwich University and graduated with a BA Honours degree in Humanities.
Simon is a lifelong vegetarian and feels strongly about animal rights but is not an activist, it’s just a strongly held conviction.
Simon’s full time career is in social housing where he often encounters dogs in unhappy situations and works with the Cinnamon Trust to arrange fostering for dogs in need.
Simon started The Cockerpoo For Life project as result of his experience giving customers advice about welfare for their dogs and being frustrated about irresponsible dog ownership. Combine that with a love for Cockapoos, and wanting to have a go at building a website, Cockapoo.me was founded to give expert advice and research, about how to buy a puppy safely, and rescue a Cockapoo in every location.
There are no affiliate links on the website but Google Adsense is used to help with costs of running and maintaining the project.
Simon has a sister site called Cocker-Spaniel-Journal .
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Our cockapoois five months old
Toilet training seemed to be going on ok but suddenly she has started to wee ibn the house. She is also a fearful bully to my six year old granddaughter who now fears her
She is incredibly active even after a 3 mile walk.
Any clues to how we treat her.
Are we allowed to smack her/ Sometimes when she has just dug up my just planted plants I feel like wringing her neck!
Please can you help?
Hi Anthony – You need to use positive reward based training with your puppy. Smacking is a double negative. Not only will it not help your situation it will harm your dogs relationship with you. I recommend you read the 30 Minute Training book https://sellfy.com/p/Zjze for guidance.
Best of Luck!
Simon