Standard poodles are great. This is my brothers dog with my nephew in a 5 inch South Louisiana snow storm this morning.
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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I’m sorry... could you switch frequencies when you post? I’ve read your post several times and after only a few words I develop an incredible urge to go pee on a tree and can’t get any further. :P
Our little poodle is a pointer and very much a sniffing hound in a poodle chassis.
Merry Holidays and such to All.
LOL!
Sorry...apparently this is only frequency I have.
[Which means you’ll usually find several species of critters trailing behind me at any given time. On the bright side, I reckon it beats ‘attracting’ winos]....:))
Sal “Animal Magnetism” Amander
As bait?
I gotta say though that not every poodle - maybe not many poodles - can do it.
There are three poodles in our HRC club, and it's a little like trying to push a rope uphill. Their hearts just aren't in it, they don't have that steely determination to Get That Duck. They obey (sometimes) but they don't enjoy it. And they don't like to get wet, any of them. Usually when they don't pass a test it's because they funk the water.
Hardly anybody's been breeding for retrieving skill and desire in poodles for at least a hundred years, probably longer. So it's disappeared from some lines.
Of course, you'll see the same thing in conformation Labs. It was hilarious to see at the National Lab Specialty this fall some of the show folks coming out to try to put a Working Certificate on their perfumed darlings. . . . almost as funny as putting Conformation Certificates on my two little roughnecks.
They’re still goofy lookin’.
Speaking of breeds competing in sports where you wouldn’t expect them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTN5kTkdvME&feature=related
Well what can I say, I’m a dog groomer. They look like job security to me. LOL!
Typical Jack. Takes 3 commands before he’ll listen.
LOL Which breed(s) are the most difficult to groom?
Cocker spaniels. It’s as if they have nerve endings in every strand of fur. I love the silly little things, but the worst bites I’ve gotten in almost 30 of grooming are from Cocker spaniels. Mind you I’ve been recently bitten in the face by a Rottie.;>
I shouldn’t over look Yorkshire Terriers. When they get about 6 months old they realize their last name is “Terrier” at about a year old they decide their first name is “Pit Bull” Bless their hearts!
Make even field-bred Labs look calm and stable, is all I can say.
Without reading everything, yes, Poodles actually WERE sporting dogs.
I’m flabbergasted they’re in “non-sporting”.
I cried when our Coquette got her first cut. She was no longer the scruffy little puppy, but some stuck-up lady.
Friends of ours used to have a Cocker Spaniel. That was one nervous dog. I love dogs and that one was a cutey but he made me crazy. I have basset hounds. They’re my speed. :)
Oh man! Dangerous job.
I love the way poodles look when left “au naturale”.
My aunt and uncle had a poodle (not a standard tho) years ago. Her name was Babette. They always took her for the fancy cut, pink toe nail polish, and pink bows on both ears. She loved every minute of it too.
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