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
Darla (dog) was, and someone going as far as to create a Facebook fan page for her entitled, "Precious, the white toy poodle of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs". Her final film before retiring (and ultimately passing away) was in 1992's "Batman Returns" as the role of Ratty Poodle. According to trainer, Cristie Miele, Darla's "big thing" was stealing socks. Darla retired from acting in 1992; retiring to Thousand Oaks, California where she later died at the age of seventeen. Darla (dog) Darla (1975–1992) was a Bichon Frise and animal actress most known for her role as Precious in