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Black Irish water spaniel x
Source. This dog is an IWS mixed with either golden or flat-coated retriever. A liver IWS bred to a golden with black pigment will produce black puppies. Here’s her profile at Black Retriever X...
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Famous retriever painting
This is a famous painting of a Chesapeake Bay retriever, a curly, and an Irish water spaniel working for a waterfowler. The painting is only realistic if the curly is absent. Many American waterfowlers...
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An Irish water spaniel named Rake
Rake was an Irish water spaniel, and this depiction of him clearly suggests that the smooth hair on the muzzle was not always definite characteristic of the Irish water spaniel. It clearly points to...
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Captain O’Grady’s Irish water spaniel
This Irish water spaniel appears in Stonehenge’s The Dogs of the British Islands, Being a Series of Articles and Letters by Various Contributors, Reprinted from the “Field” Newspaper (1872). In the...
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William Bruette on the origins of the Irish water spaniel
This painting of an Irish water spaniel by Walter Harrowing shows a dog with what appears to be a true red coat, instead of the liver coloration we know today. This red coloration, which would be a...
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Wildfowling on Lough Neagh
Lough Neagh is a lake or “loch” in the middle of Northern Ireland. Wildfowling is English for “duck hunting.” Source. The pochard is a close relative of the North American redhead duck, and it looks...
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Northern and Southern Irish water spaniels
This image comes from The Shotgun and Sporting Rifle (1859) by John Henry Walsh (Stonehenge). The dog on the left is the Southern Irish water spaniel or McCarthy’s strain. It is the same breed that we...
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Governor Dewey’s Irish water spaniel
Thomas E. Dewey was the 47th Governor of New York. He was a moderate Republican, who wound up being the party’s nominee for president twice– and losing both times. Most famously, he lost the 1948...
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An interesting water spaniel from Cork, 1907
A reader named Tim, who blogs as the Wicked Yankee over at the Daley Clan blog sent me photos of what his family insists was an Irish water spaniel that belonged to his great-great grandfather, Daniel...
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“A pointer on breeding coon dogs”
From Hunter-Trader-Trapper (1908): Let me give you boys a pointer on breeding coon dogs. Take a large Irish water spaniel bitch and breed her to a large black and tan fox hound, then take a large bitch...
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