Saying a spaniel is a water dog is liking say Obama is socialist/Marxist, duh. I have an English Springer and Welshie and you couldn’t them out of the pool with an electric fence.
He looks like an enormous Lab, though, and as a young puppy helped boost my self-esteem via the neighborhood ladies flirting with me. Now, not so much.
Also, as a kid I was told Spaniels had a rep as being very dumb because they were bred for the coat and not their brains. I got my pup(s) from a farm, though, and they were intended to work, not be pets.
This pup has a sibling from the same litter who looks/behaves nothing like her brother. I think they have different fathers. She is 50% terrier, I think, and 25% lab and 25% spaniel. She is the evil one of the two, and looks kinda like a dobie/shepherd mix.
Training is difficult because the Pyr just wants to please, and the other one wants to gnaw.
The Pyr gets his feelings hurt when I yell at him. He is very sensitive. The other one is pure punk rock: does not give a darn. Also, they are currently digging several holes to China in my back yard. Looks like war zone. I had to build a fence around my veg garden, as they will eat it.