The flat-coated retriever (or the flat-coat, for short) is a strong but elegant gun dog breed that originated in the mid-19th century in England. They were originally bred to serve as hunting dogs to ...

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In the paintings — six, in total — that H. Reginald Cooke, doyen of Edwardian flatcoated retriever breeders, commissioned from artist Maud Earl, his raven-black dogs each extend to an unglimpsed ...

The name is a bit of a give away here, retrievers have been bred to assist with hunting. When a hunt shoots a bird, a retriever will track the bird down, pick them up and take them back to their owner ...