[Super_Dave_D]

[QUOTE=tabs;4132788]The POODLE a better hunting dog....What is HUNTING IT? I really can't see that pipsquesk of a dog hunting anything other than its own collar?

Actually I like the Standard Poodle better than the Shepard.

The Airedale is the orginal Police Dog....The US, UK, Nipperoos and I even think the Krauts used em...fantastic dog...QUOTE]

The Poodle is supposed to have originated in Germany and not France!

I have seen some pretty mean full size poodles and they make a pretty decent guard dog.

Interesting poodle info:

The poodle was originally bred to be a water dog -- retrieving game fowl trapped or shot down by its owners. In fact the name "poodle" is a derivative of the old German extraction "pudeln" which translates roughly as "to splash in water."

Unlike many other breeds of dog that were bred to specific sizes only within recent history, the poodle's three primary sizes -- toy, miniature and standard -- have been around for centuries. Aside from companionship, the toy versions and related cross-breeds played a somewhat dubious alternate role whereby they served as hand-warmers within the large sleeves of the nobility and emerging merchant classes around the time of the Renaissance. This practice became so widespread that they and other similarly small dogs became known as "sleeve dogs."