Any good retriever will get this excited over a big retrieve. My 11 year old Lab got to be the Test Dog (dry run of setup) for a Hunt Test last weekend, although she's been retired from testing. She knows perfectly well how to go to the line off leash, but she got SO excited when she saw that they were going to shoot a live flyer that I put a length of parachute cord through her collar (as permitted in Junior) just in case. She was whining and bouncing (although she did not break). They never lose that desire.
And my young dog got her first Junior pass too, so it was a Good Day.
Yea I have the same feeling about "hybrid" breeds. Whats worse is when they sell them for more than the original breeds are worth. Just a way for people to make money on mutts imo.
http://lakelandhuntingpoodles.com/
I will admit you might get some funny looks and snarky comments if you show up in the field with a poodle
Congrats on your winning pups......I have a 14 yo lab, aren't labs wonderful?
“I went to the story, and this is a Standard Poodle/Pointer cross. Boy is that weird! Why do people feel they have to mess up perfectly good gun dog/ retriever breeds?”
It looks like a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, to me. Or maybe more a German Wirehaired Pointer.
We don’t know for sure if this dog is really a mutt, or if so, if it was actually deliberately bred. Could be an accident, as many are.