CURLY-COATED RETRIEVER

Original of England, curly coated to retriever is one of older retriever. Registries of the development of this race are not had, but it thinks that it enters its ancestors are old races, some already extinct ones, like the English water dog of century XVI, the Newfoundland of San Juan, setter collector and, more recently, caniche.

The first time that appeared one of these dogs in a canine exhibition was in Brimingham, in the middle of century XIX, in a exhibition organized by the Kennel Club of England.

In 1889 some units to New Zealand were exported, where very popular collectors became dogs. Later they arrived at Australia where also they acquired much popularity between the hunters.

At the beginning of century XX curly coated to retriever lost popularity in England. According to some authors, this had that they began to raise dogs of hard mouth. If this were certain, and knowing that the denominated hard mouth has to do with training faults, is possible that some change in the techniques of training between the hunters of the England of principles of century XX had taken place. In addition, curly coated to retriever of New Zealand, originating of English lines, did not present/display that problem.

That loss of popularity and the remarkable popularity of the Golden Delicious ones retriever and the farmer to retriever, caused that curly coated to retriever becomes a race difficult to obtain.

These dogs are good hunters, excellent mascots if it is counted on a great garden, and also can be good dogs of guard, although not so good dogs of protection. Also they are excellent dogs to practice canine sports like agility, freestyle canine or dog dancing, and competitive obedience.