Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Cavaliers enjoy regular walks and outdoor activities while remaining adaptable to a range of household activity levels.

Training, social interaction, walks, play, and suitable dog sports provide useful daily mental engagement.

Intelligence and eagerness to please generally make Cavaliers responsive to positive, consistent training.

Cavaliers have important inherited health concerns, including mitral valve heart disease and syringomyelia. Ask for breed-appropriate cardiac, eye, hip, and patella screening and discuss individual risk with a veterinarian.

The official standard defines the Cavalier as friendly, gentle, affectionate, and non-aggressive.

Affectionate, attentive, and gentle Cavaliers are widely suited to family life and children with normal supervision.

AKC guidance identifies Cavaliers as adaptable, affectionate companions that may live successfully with cats, while individual assessment remains necessary.

The single coat sheds throughout the year, with regular brushing helping contain loose hair.

The silky feathered coat needs frequent brushing and routine attention to ears, nails, and dental care, but not complex coat sculpting.

Sporting ancestry and intrinsic hunting instincts can lead Cavaliers to follow an interesting scent or animal instead of recalling.

Parent-club guidance states that Cavaliers do not tolerate extremes of heat well and should not remain outside for prolonged periods in hot conditions.