Yes, Curly and Wavy coated retrievers were breeds long before Golden and Labrador retrievers.

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.

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