French Poodle…Not!
Woman in the Middle | December 29, 2014Eldest Daughter was showing me some cute posters online. An artist had done adorable drawings of different breeds of dogs and grouped them on posters according to country of origin. Eldest showed me her favorite, the French dog poster. But something seemed to be missing. Where is the poodle? You know, the FRENCH poodle?
Eldest poked around a bit until she finally found the FRENCH poodle. ”It must have originated in Germany. It’s on the German poster,” she said.
Do you ever have one of those moments when your world goes slightly sideways? Well, discovering that the French Poodle, the fussiest of fussy dogs, is German, not French, really rocked my world. I had to Google it. Come to find out the poodle did originate in Germany as a water dog. The name “poodle” comes from a German word for puddle. Apparently the poodle was “standardized” in France, where it was also used as a water dog and became so associated with that country it became their national dog.
The French national dog originated in Germany. Who would have thought?
Poodle’s used to be used as hunting dogs as well!
What really had no idea about that