Yes, Curly and Wavy coated retrievers were breeds long before Golden and Labrador retrievers.
- Janean Marti
- Oct 8, 2019
- 2 min read
One of my wonderful golden retriever owning friends liked my article about the curly-coated ancestors of the golden retriever breed but questioned whether I might be mistaken about the pedigrees I cited as proof of such ancestry. My friend was confused because she had read a conflicting account of retriever breed history in a book about golden retrievers. After she shared the information from the book, I thought a quick article documenting breed registrations was in order.