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Posted on 01/11/2006 7:51:56 AM PST by presidio9
The poodle pranced to the top of the list of Manhattan's most popular dog breeds in 2005.
The poodle edged out the Labrador retriever and dachshund, the American Kennel Club said Tuesday.
Manhattan's standard, miniature and toy poodles snatched No. 1 from the borough's dachshunds, which slid to third from 2004's top spot. The Labrador retriever was ranked No. 2, according to the kennel club, which based the rankings on its national registration statistics broken down by ZIP code.
Next in popularity were the Yorkshire terrier, golden retriever, bulldog, French bulldog, Shih Tzu and Havanese. The 10th spot was shared by the Maltese and the pug.
New to the list for 2005 were the French bulldog and the Havanese, the kennel club said.
"These breeds appeal to sophisticated people who, while they may not have a lot of space in their Manhattan apartment, have plenty of love for a petite canine companion," kennel club spokeswoman Gail Miller said in a news release announcing the rankings.
The American Kennel Club, which was established in 1884, says it aims to advance the study, breeding and exhibition of purebred dogs.
The best dog we ever had was a male standard schnauzer and a Queensland Heeler female. The schauzer (Baron Von Tramp) loved herding our son's breeding ewes. The Oueensland Heeler (Augie) who was bred to be a herding dog, refused to have anything to do with our sheep. She much preferred to ride in the pickup, and chase tennis balls.
Oh I think he'd last longer that you think. A lot of people make fun of the way the fancy poodles are given hair cuts, but that hair cut evolved out of the protection of the limbs for hunting/swimming purposes.
Put 'im in the circus! They make GREAT circus animals for those reasons you suggest.
"Oh I think he'd last longer that you think. A lot of people make fun of the way the fancy poodles are given hair cuts, but that hair cut evolved out of the protection of the limbs for hunting/swimming purposes."
Oh absolutely and they can be quite the fighters, but my little 10lb Yorkie Poodle is more of a black Yorkie. His dad a black poodle, mom a yorkie. Yorkies are natural mousers kept on farms for that reason and good for an occasional squirrel. What a combo! BTW his name is Poobear. He looks like a miniature Florida black bear.
That was not a poodle silly!
It was a German Shorthaired Pointer!!
We got our schnoodle from a shelter about 2 years ago. We think he is about six years old now, so we never went through the puppy stage with him. He does like to bite when playing, but never hard enough to break the skin.
I think that standard poodles are ok and are good dogs. I've never met a standard poodle that I didn't like.
Thanks. Mine is 10 weeks and I'm running out of band-aids here!
There's nothing wrong with poodles; I like to wok them!
Not looking to start a Creationism thread here, but the poodle's looks are a product of breeding, not evolution.
That's a handsome dog, Beaker!
Ah!yes, the poodle also known to most rats and some cats as steak.
We had a standard poodle. Great dog!
Poodles are excellent watch dogs and great hunters.
The "poodle cut" was originally devised by hunters to enable their dogs to negotiate wooded ares and still keep their joint warm in water.
Archeologist have found ancient drawings on Malta depicting a poodle-like dog. They're still very popular in Germany.
Now we have a Toy Poodle and an Italian Greyhound. A 10-pound poodle who thinks he's a standard.
BTW the only beret my poodle wears is green.
Poodle: The Other White Meat
Has no one yet mentioned that poodles are also the smartest pure-breed?
Basenjis are smarter. :)
http://www.poodlehistory.org/MARKHAM.HTM
Excerpted from the webpage:
""Our Original ('Perfect') Water Dog: the Poodle": lightly-edited excerpts from: Gervase Markham (1568-1637), Hungers Prevention: or The Whole Arte of Fowling by Water and Land... (London, 1621), pp. 29; 32; 67-88.
"The water dog [Poodle] is a creature of such general use, and so frequent in use amongst us here in England, that it is needless to make any large description of him: the rather since not any among us is so simple that he cannot say when he sees him: 'This is a water dog,' or 'a dog bred for the Water'.... I will here describe...the best proportion of a perfect water dog.
First, for the colour of the best water dog, albeit some...will ascribe more excellency to one colour than to another, as the black to be the best and hardest, and the Liver-hued swiftest in swimming, and the pied or spotted dog, quickest of scent; yet in truth it is nothing so, for all colours are alike, and so a dog of any of the former colours may be excellent good dogs...according to their first ordering and training; for instruction is the liquor wherewith they are seasoned, and if they be well-handled at the first, they will ever smell of that discretion, and if they be ill-handled they will ever stink of that folly: For nature is a true mistress and bestowes her gifts freely, and it is only nurture which abuseth them. To proceed then, your dog may be of any colour and yet excellent, and his hair in general would be long and curled, not loose and shaggy; for the first shows hardness and ability to endure the water, the other much tenderness and weakness, making his sport grievous. His head would be round and curled, his ears broad and hanging, his eye full, lively and quick, his nose very short, his lip hound-like, side [ample] and rough-bearded, his chops with a full set of strong teeth, and the general features of his whole countenance being united together would be as lion-like as might be, for that shows fierceness and goodness. His neck would be thick and short, his breast like the breast of a ship, sharp and compact; his shoulders broad, his fore legs straight, his chine [spine] square, his buttocks round, his rigs compassed [curved], his belly gaunt, his thighs brawny, his cambrels [hocks] crooked, his pasterns strong and dew clawed, and all his four feet spacious [webbed] to the claw, like a water duck, for they being his oars to row him in the water, having that shape, will carry his body away the faster. And thus you have the true description of a perfect water dog, as you may see following.
Now for the cutting or shaving him from the navel downward--or backward--it is two ways well to be allowed of: that is, for summer hunting, or for water. Because these water dogs naturally are ever most laden with hair on the hinder parts; nature as it were labouring to defend that part most, which is continually to be employed in the most extremity, and because the hinder parts are ever deeper in the water than the foreparts, therefore nature hath given them the greater armour of hair to defend the wet and coldness; yet this defence in the summer time by the violence of the head of the sun, and the greatness of the dog's labour is very noisome and troublesome, and not only maketh him sooner to faint [lose heart] and give over [abandon] his sport but also makes him by his overheating, more subject to take the mange. And so likewise in matter of water, it is a very heavy burden to the dog, and makes him swim less nimbly and slower, besides the former offences before recited.
But for the cutting or shaving of a dog all quite over, even from the foot to the nostril, that I utterly dislike, for it not only takes from him the general benefits which nature hath lent him, but also brings such a tenderness and chillness over all his body, that the water in the end will grow irksome unto him; for...[although] men may argue that keeping any creature cold will make it the better endure cold, yet we find by true experience both in these and divers other such things, that when nature is thus continually kept at her uttermost ability of endurance, when any little drop more is added to that extremity, presently she faints and grows distempered, whereas, keep nature in her full strength and she will very hardly be conquered, and hence it doth come that you shall see an ordinary land Spaniel, being hastily and well kept, will tire twenty of these over-shaven curs in the cold water: whereas, let them have the rights nature hath bestowed upon them, and the water is as familiar unto them as the land any way can be.
Therefore, to conclude this point, I would have the skillful fowler, if he keep his water dog only for his use of fowling as to attend his nets, limerods, fowling-piece or such like, which is only for the most part appropriate to the winter season, then not to shave his dog at all, for he shall find in the sharp frost and snow, when the air shall freeze the drops of water faster on the hair than the dog can cast them off; that the uttermost benefit that nature hath granted, is no more but sufficient, and the carefull master should rather seek to increase them than diminish them.
Now for the matter of training or bringing up of this Water Dog, it is to be understood that you cannot begin too early with him, that is not to say even when you first wean him, and teach him to lap, for even then you shall begin to teach him obedience, which is the main thing that includeth all the lessons which he shall learn, for being made to obey your will, he is serviceable for any purpose you shall employ him in, as on the contrary part, wanting due obedience he is good for nothing at all but to spoil the work you shall labour to effect."
Actually, standard poodles are pretty cool dogs. Big clowns, and you don't have to clip them in that silly show cut. I would be embarrassed to walk one with all the pom poms. The old fashioned poodle cut was actually pretty cool looking. Sort of like this:
http://www.encore-editions.com/dogs/maudearl/Blackandwhitestandardpoodles.jpg
susie
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