Every dog owner knows why they gave their dog its name, but how well do you know the story behind their breed names? For example, poodle comes from 'pudeln,' a German word that meant 'to splash,' so these brave retrievers were known as pudelhund, or 'water dogs.' The word eventually evolved into the English poodle.
Let's see how a handful of common breeds found their monikers.
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