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.