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In reply to the discussion: What is your favorite dog breed and why? [View all]pandr32
(11,637 posts)They are intuitive and inquisitive for sure.
John Steinbeck had a standard called Charley. He took him everywhere and Charley's hair was kept neat and shortish--not fussy.
Ours are kept like that with a tiny exception: both are parti-poodles (bi-colored), and Bama is all black except for a thin lightning bolt on his front neck and chest and a white patch on his bottom jaw. I keep a little goatee on him to show it off and it gives him a rather suave, but bad-ass look. Ziggy is all pied like a pinto pony and even though he is younger (same father as Bama) he is huge. He looks like a royal poodle but he just happened on the really large genes. He leaves huge paw prints like a wolf.
I have always preferred big dogs. Probably because a chihuahua bit me as a child. The lady holding him had held him out for me to pet, too, and then said it was so unlike him to bite anyone. I had to get a rabies shot. Also, I cannot handle high-pitched yapping--drives me insane.