Poodle titles against the more widely used native breeds like the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, American Water Spaniel and Labrador Retriever. Thus far 13 Standard Poodles have won Master Hunt titles (12 in the United States, 1 in Canada) and several more have won senior and junior titles on both sides of the border. Currently only the United Kennel Club in the US recognizes the Standard Poodle as a Sporting dog, thus in spite of this subtype of poodle being ineligible for field competitions more and more are appearing in the field as waterfowl dogs and hunters
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