Criminals can get hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds, for animals including spaniels, Labradors and retrievers.

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Cocker spaniels have been stolen from their kennels in rural locations in the last week.

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Ch Insp Simon Dodds, from Hampshire Police, is investigating three thefts of cocker spaniels worth thousands of pounds in Bullington, near Andover and Owlesbury, near Winchester last Sunday and on New Year's Eve.

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In secular bull markets, on average, sell decisions are not as rewarding as hold decisions, as market valuations are expanding and even the second-rate dogs of the equity markets start looking like pedigreed cocker spaniels.

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The Sage of Omaha railed against the pointlessness of much of the work done by audit committees (while joking that he does not get asked onto compensation committees because they prefer Cocker Spaniels to Dobermans).

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He knows how to bow to foreign diplomats in the manner of their own countries, sits at table without fidgeting or feeding spaniels, can neatly carve and joint any fowl if requested to serve his elders.

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It could take five years to reach the miscellaneous category and then another few years to get into one of the club's seven groups most likely as a "sporting dog, " a variety that includes cocker spaniels and golden retrievers.

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