Sentences with phrase «yellow retriever»
"Yellow retriever" refers to a type of dog called a Golden Retriever, which typically has a golden or yellow-colored fur. Full definition
The original 1868 cross that became the foundation for the breed was between an undetermined breed of yellow retriever stud named Nous and a Tweed Water Spaniel bitch named Belle.
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The first dogs of the breed were called yellow retrievers; since the 1930s, the standard has only allowed yellow or cream dogs, never red.
In the mid-1800s, Lord Tweedmouth of Guisachan bought his first yellow retriever, a male, whom he bred to a Tweed Water Spaniel in hopes of developing an even better bird dog.
«This version had corroboration in a letter published in the «Field» in 1941, when M. S. H. Whitbread stated that the second Lord Tweedmouth told him how, as a small boy at school near Brighton, his father, Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, took him for a walk on the downs where they met a man with a very handsome young yellow retriever.
In 1868 and 1871, breedings of Nous to Belle, a Tweed Water Spaniel (a breed now extinct), resulted in several yellow pups that became the foundation for a distinctive line of yellow retrievers.
This breed is the result of of mixing various dog breeds such as Yellow Retrievers, rough coat Trievers, water Tweed Spaniels and Red Setters.
After the founding of the Golden Retriever Club of England, in 1911, the British Kennel Club granted official recognition to the yellow retrievers as a separate variety, classifying them as «Yellow or Golden».
They crossed a female Tweed Water Spaniel, Belle, with a yellow retriever, Nous.
As a young man, her father shot in Buckinghamshire with Colonel le Poer Trench, one of the early breeders of «Yellow Retrievers», and proponent of the Russian myth.
In 1908, the «Yellow Retrievers» were finally registered in the England Kennel Club, although they were called «Flat Coats of Any Other Color.»
The foundation stock of the breed was a yellow retriever puppy of unknown breed and a Tweed Water Spaniel, both of which appear several times in early pedigrees.
The resulting four yellow puppies became the foundation stock for what would become the «golden or yellow retriever.»
Although little known outside of private circles, these yellow retrievers were used by gamekeepers and as a gentleman's gundog.
Shortly after the founding of the Golden Retriever Club of England, in 1911, the British Kennel Club granted official recognition to the yellow retrievers as a separate variety, classifying them as «Yellow or Golden».