Portuguese Water Dog In 413 CE, the Visigoths invaded Iberia before being settled in Aquitania north of the Pyrenees in 418, ultimately extending their rule to most of Iberia after 470 CE. A Portuguese Water Dog is first described in 1297 in a monk’s account of a drowning sailor who was pulled from the sea by a dog with a "black coat, the hair long and rough, cut to the first rib and with a tail tuft". These theories explain how the Poodle and the Portuguese Water Dog may have developed from the same ancient genetic pool. At one time the Poodle was
Attack poodle culture critic James Wolcott in his 2004 book, "Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror", a critique of popular right-wing TV news personalities who he claims are increasingly dominating the mainstream media in America. The term was also used in 1998 by Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq which scorned the British as "America’s attack poodle" in response to air raids undertaken by the latter as part of Operation Desert Fox. Attack poodle Attack poodle is a political epithet or pejorative that typically denotes a vociferous but utterly servile defender of a