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It's always frightened me how rottweilers and bouviers (which I like) are so close, genetically speaking, to poodles and other lapdogs.
beauty nathreee 2010
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So meet Topper, a bearded collie; the bouviers des Flandres Flash and Riley; Poppy, an Australian shepherd; Portofino (Portie to close friends), a whippet; Rigi, a greater Swiss mountain dog; Ten, a German shorthaired pointer; and Big, a charismatic wirehaired pointing griffon, named for Carrie Bradshaw's love interest on "Sex and the City."
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"Most bouviers are pretty fierce, but he's sweet with anything which belongs to the family, and of course he adores Haso."
Paradise For Two Neels, Betty 1989
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Swiss, in derision, Kühmelkers -- a term more opprobrious than _bouviers_; and it is said that, after the battle of Frastens -- one of the battles of the Suabian war, -- a Frenchman threw himself at the feet of some Grisons soldiers, and innocently prayed thus for quarter; '_Très-chers, très-honorables, et très-dignes Kühmelkers! au nom de Dieu, ne me tuez pas_!'
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