Posted on 12/10/2008 7:28:56 PM PST by JoeProBono
PRIOR LAKE, Minn. -- A rooster pheasant winged high overhead in the cobalt sky, several blasts from a shotgun interrupted its flight and the bird somersaulted into thick grass. "Back," Libbe Erickson told her hunting dog, Rider, and he rocketed into the brush. Moments later Rider returned, pheasant in mouth. "Good dog," she said, taking the bird. Nothing unusual here on a glorious fall day in Minnesota - except Erickson's dog is a poodle. A cream-colored, fluffy poodle.
And nearby, friend Lin Gelbmann's silver poodle, Cache, with an even fluffier hairdo, also retrieved downed birds dropped by a bevy of shooters.
Hunting poodles?
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Those “lousy” cut they’re given for shows, are actually a modification of the hunting cuts. They leave fur to keep the joints and internal organs warm in cold water and remove the fur every where else for convenience.
Poodles are originally water dogs and yes they do field trial.
Hello.
“the best watch dogs ever”
I have a good friend who is a dog trainer. When her hubby went “on the road” she got two standards for protection.
Recommended them highly.
I may look into a rescue situation when my current pack dwindles.
“Manly-man” Hubby took quite a bit of flak over the poodles from his big, burly, corrections officer BIL. Now, the BIL also has one and says he’ll never have anything else either. *snicker*
We may have to learn another language and not because Obama says we should. We got away with spelling things for awhile and then they caught on to that. Using Pig Latin only worked for so long too. Now, we have to talk in an elaborate code that’s part charades and part “you-know-whos”, “you-know-whats”, “you-know-whens” and “you-know-wheres”. :/
As watch dogs, I can’t recommend them highly enough.
Ours know my SIL better than probably anyone and she even lived with us for awhile. They’ve always been very loving and affectionate towards her (when we’re home) but she said she’s been extremely afraid of them the few times she’s come in when we weren’t home.
When someone they don’t know shows up, they always put themselves between us and are very wary until I tell them it’s okay. There’s no doubt in my mind they’d go after someone if the situation arose.
OTOH, you couldn’t ask for better companions. It doesn’t matter if I leave a room 100 times for one minute each time, they’ll get up and follow me each and every time. All they seem to want out of life is to be WITH YOU. (And a slice of Wonder bread since you already have it out... and maybe a pillow if it’s not too much bother...)
We had a 4lb. toy that was completely fearless. Went after a Belgian Shepard that came into our yard one day, charged right at him and snagged the ‘dangling bits’ and would not let go. Now that's a howl I'll never forget! Smartest furry critter I have ever known, and some of the others would put some two-legged types to shame.
Great dog, great friend. Mum had to put her down when I was in boot camp, still think about her everyday...
Hey, that looks like my dog. Mine is fearless. She will go after any sized dog. The funny thing is most of them back down, no matter how big. There’s a lot of of attitude in her 10 pound body.
Woof!
If you use a blow-dryer on them before you start, they float longer...
I totally agree. The intelligence and non-shedding coat of a poodle, and the demeanor of a Golden; you can’t ask for better.
I’ve said as well that this is the best dog we have ever had.
My in-laws had a white toy poodle many years ago, and she was an absolute terror. Fifi would come home from the groomer with those little bows in her hair and her toenails painted, but God help any critter that wound up in “her” backyard. Fifi viewed squirrels, birds, rats, rabbits, and snakes as prey animals. The squirrels, birds and rabbits usually were quick enough to get away from her, but she would flat kill a rat or a snake.
She completely changed my attitude towards poodles—they are smart and tough dogs.
Pffft.
Don’t bother with the language silliness.
Dogs can read your mind so trying to fool them with Pig Latin or any other linguistic tap-dancing is useless....:)
Mine have gotten adept at giving me Stephen King story-esque mental “pushes”.
They’ll be wanting something and somehow give *me* the mental image of what they want.
People comment on how “uncanny” my rapport with dogs is...not really...I must just have a mental wavelength they find easy to tap into.
[i.e...I make a good psychic sock puppet]....;-D
Hey....:)
As a teen, I had a protection trained Doberman who was the “baddest” thing on 4 paws...*but*...little Fifi [I was 7 when I named her...sorry...LOL] would tell him what was what in no uncertain terms.
*She* ruled the yard and everything in it, including him and he put up with it, even though she’d have been barely a mouthful for him.
He was ~such~ a good dog.
I look forward to having Dobermans again.
It would be *so* wonderful to have a dog who lives to serve me rather than the other way around, again.
I’ve always heard that that was the purpose of the foo-foo looking cut of their coat was all about. It insulated the vital organs in the water.
Our neighbors have a Labradoodle. Her coat is unmanagable long so they have her clipped. She’s total poodle in physique and total lab in personality.
What a sweetheart!!!!
Here's an ingenious way to make your Dobie look less frightening, and it fits in with the topic of this thread:
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