Well, I’ve had both breeds and love them both, you have to be very careful on the ears with both, but my 3 cocker spaniel had skin problems and it seems its very usual on them.

get a mix between the two

Well , I’ve had both a beagle and a cocker and both were sweet dogs. But both had faults to. The beagle who’s name was Rascal was named that for a reason, was brilliant particularly as an escape artist. Houdini had nothing on her. If she ever got away it took me for ever to catch her. The last time it took me two weeks and she was sneaky to. Very sweet and gentle but she was a pistol. The cocker Sassy, liked to chew on every think.Paper,carpet,furniture you name it she ate it. I ended up giving them both away and they were both pure bred dogs worth money.Just not worth the aggravation.Now I have 3 black labs, 1 American bull,2 Aussies and am very happy . The labs and the A/B are very laid back. The Aussies take it by spells.Hope it works out for you, but that has been my experience. Good luck.

I would get a beagle i i were you because you have a medium sized backyard and cocker spaniels need a lot of room to run.

Beagle is not advisable as they are very tough to train and very difficult to handle unless you are sort of tough or firm. Beagles also have a tendency to drift off with smells for miles together. Trust me i have owned three of them in India. Cockers are excellent. Yes grooming would be good but once a week would do just fine. Your best bet is Cocker.

any.they ar both lovely and pretty.and suitable for any person.=)

i would say that a beagle is much cuter, but they are super energetic so get a beagle if you feel a commitment to play with it all the time. i don’t really know much about cockers though.

That’s a hard choice–both are very sweet dogs.

Both are hunting breeds and will want to move around a lot…

In my experience cockers are really good with people, especially chiildren. (My first dog was a cocker, so they have a special place in my heart)

If you don’t have a lot of time to spend bathing/grooming a dog, I’d say a beagle. If that’s not a consideration, then go with the cocker.

Sorry I can’t be more definite–I love both breeds.

both dogs are very loving and want to spend a lot of time with their masters. Beagles, though, are renown for getting out of a fence, any fence, in any way possible. We spent a year changing our fencing around to keep our beagle in, finally succeeded with instretched upper stakes with barbed wire on them. Sounds cruel, doesn’t it? The only thing that ever worked except for the concrete blocks we buried along the fenceline to keep him from digging out.
The next week early am the doorbell rang – there stood the garbage man asking, “Can Rascal come out to play? We will take good care of him” I told him no we had finally managed to keep him in, so later in the day the doorbell rang and there he stood again – with 1/2 a turkey!!!!! No wonder my dog was getting so fat.
Anyway we also had a cocker spaniel and he did none of these things, just loved us.
The choice is yours.

my “aunt” had a cocker spaniel and she had a lot of problems with it. first it had cherry eye and had to have surgery and then it went totally blind. after that some how it got very sick and died. i have heard that cockers are not very good with kids either. i would know cause i am one and the cocker spaniel she had was nasty and did not stop barking