I found another working dog breed. The Portuguese Water Dog in the picture very proudly were modelling for me in this photo – with rights to be proud since it’s an ancient breed with a history back into 600 BC.
Portuguese Water Dogs origins from the Algarve region in Portugal, where they have a very interesting history of herding fish into the fishermen’s nets, retrieve broken nets – even to act as couriers from ship or shores. It’s an excellent swimmer and distances as long as 80 km (in tempered water) is documented.
A Portuguese Water Dog is first described in 1297 in a monk’s account of a drowning sailor who was pulled from the sea by a dog with a “black coat, the hair long and rough, cut to the first rib and with a tail tuft”. Source: Wikipedia
It’s a fairly rare breed in Sweden, they occurred here for the first time around 1980, but has since then become very popular.
©Lifecruiser Love Dog Photos
Earlier related World Dogs posts by Lifecruiser:
I thought I recognized this dog! It’s the one the Obamas have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_%28dog%29