Possible Clues:

• Cocker - -
• It's used around start of evening a lot — with wet stuff in the kitchen
• Working dog in Nepal is a mongrel
• Possible 1 for article in story
• How Spain turns tail with the Spanish in such a dogged manner
• Sales talk grips an obsequious type
• Springer- - -
• Salesman's glib talk takes in an obsequious type
• Long-eared pet
• Dog, turning, jumps in to be protected