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Flat-Coated Retriever Did You Know?
- The Flat-Coated Retriever was admitted to AKC registration in 1915.
- By 1918, the Flatcoat's popularity was overtaken by the modern
Labrador Retriever, and by the end of the 1920s by the Golden Retriever.
At times, particularly during the two World Wars, registrations dwindled
to dangerous levels.
- The Flatcoat's most famous patron was H. R. Cooke, who for over 70 years
kept the breed in his fabulous Riverside" kennel - a kennel perhaps
unique among those for any breed of dogs in numbers, quality and awards
won in the field and on the show bench.
- Stanley O'Neill, one of the greatest authorities on the breed,
showed selfless devotion in putting the Flatcoat on as sound a footing as
possible and in advising new patrons on correct type in order to build stock
in the 20th century.
- The Flatcoat developed out of the same "Labrador" family
as the well-known Labrador Retriever.
- Flatcoat lineage holds evidence of Newfoundland, setter, sheepdog, and
spaniel-like water dogs; regarded as a "mongrel" breed for many
years.
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