Agitated poodles are all voice and all teeth. They have a very long snout, and it's startling coming at you when you're not expecting that from something that looks like it's just had an '80s perm.
In build, they're very like greyhounds. Long and lean with a deep, narrow chest and a slightly heavier bone structure.
In terms of personality, they are not a dog you can shove in a backyard and they'll be content. They're highly intelligent, can be highly strung, they get bored and they get lonely without a deep human interaction. They are very connected to the humans in their lives, and often bond to one member of a family very closely.
One of mine was essentially a rescue. A three year old, free to good home. A family member of mine that is an otherwise waste of space person answered the ad, and they told him if he didn't take her, they were putting her down next week. He took her. They'd shoved her in a yard and ignored her. Debarked her when the neighbours complained. Then listed her when they couldn't be bothered with her any more.
Family member had her until she was eight and a half. I and my partner had her from then until the end of her life when she was fourteen. She was full of beans virtually to the end but had regular life threatening chest infections because of the debarking surgery.
You can tell the difference between a stressed bark, a fearful bark, a playful bark. There are nuances to dog voices, and they do all have their own tone of voice. Even when two dogs have similar barks, you can generally tell which one of them is barking if you know them well, as you would with humans you know.
MOO
This rampant speculation really irks me and is why I will always prefer WS. It seems like people are actively HOPING there are bodies in these images. It’s quite sickening. MOO.
