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There was never another terrier, since I had promised Joannie that, but there was my big, elegant, black, flat-coated retriever, Odin—the dog that Joan loved above all others.

Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010

This guy is a dead ringer for Max, my flat-coated retriever - right down to the silly toy in his mouth.

Archive 2008-05-01 The Nag 2008

Peter Haney, a university administrator in Lethbridge, Alberta, twice found his Roomba in pieces after letting it clean while his flat-coated retrievers, Macleod and Tima, had the run of the house.

When Dogs and Robots Collide, 2008

Some of them are truly bizarre: epilepsy in poodles, sudden muscle rigidity in Scottish terriers ( "Scottie cramp"), chronic fever in Shar-Peis, tumors in flat-coated retrievers, congestive heart failure in boxers.

The Truth About Dogs 1999

A number of breeds that exhibit strange recessive ailments, including Irish wolfhounds, flat-coated retrievers, Portuguese water dogs, and Shar-Peis, almost disappeared at some point during this century and were reconstituted from very small populations.

The Truth About Dogs 1999

Some of them are truly bizarre: epilepsy in poodles, sudden muscle rigidity in Scottish terriers ( "Scottie cramp"), chronic fever in Shar-Peis, tumors in flat-coated retrievers, congestive heart failure in boxers.

The Truth About Dogs 1999

A number of breeds that exhibit strange recessive ailments, including Irish wolfhounds, flat-coated retrievers, Portuguese water dogs, and Shar-Peis, almost disappeared at some point during this century and were reconstituted from very small populations.

The Truth About Dogs 1999

My Cavalier King Charles spaniel goes to the door of the bathroom to wait for the inevitable, while my flat-coated retriever simply becomes alert, watching the scene to see if this word has any implications for his future.

How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

"LOST, large retriever dog, flat-coated; when pleased or expectant he grins, showing all his teeth; information leading to his recovery will be rewarded."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 Various

Are our domestic sheep, except for their highly artificial development of wool, really very different from their wild ancestors, the active and flat-coated animals which still feed on the stony mountain-tops?

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882