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Monday, December 26. 2016

Toy Spaniel

We had a Papillon visiting over the weekend. This breed might be in the lap dog, ankle-biter category, but this one was a delight: well-related, highly-communicative with human-like noises, feisty, high energy, highly-alert, and eager to please. They need plenty of time to run around off leash, and they seem to need plenty of time napping on somebody's lap.


A cool dog. The breed is known to be easily trained, and our visitor obeyed numerous voice commands. 


This breed can have erect ears (mostly in the US) and floppy spaniel ears (mostly in Europe). These were popular in the courts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.


Madame de Pompadour with her Papillon, by Boucher.  Ms. Pompadour was cute, charmant, and smart too. Well-educated, she could sing, play musical instruments, recite plays and poetry, and she understood statecraft. A self-made lady who retained her usefulness to Louis XV well-past her sexual prime until her death of TB at 42.


Posted by Bird Dog in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc. at 19:19 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Eeh, I would like to recommend myself and my breed.

We the Hungarian Pumis are the cutest, smartest and wisest of all dogs. Ours ancestry goes back to the days of Attila or so I´m told.
#1 Puskas the Pumi on 2016-12-27 04:13 (Reply)
It took me a moment to find the dog. That is one heck of a dress!
#2 B Hammer on 2016-12-27 10:21 (Reply)
Me, too. It is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD to be rich.
#3 Sam L. on 2016-12-27 12:30 (Reply)

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