Also like you avatar.  We have a standard poodle. I would have never thought they could be such a fun, loving, intelligent and DIVA dog.  I wish we would have starting having them when we were younger. This is our last.  We have the Poodle and a Lab.  The Poodle could have hunted circles around the lab.  She is always nose to the ground hunting.  The lab only hunts for a ball, scare to death of a gun and has no interest in birds.