GENERAL APPEARANCE

DENOMINATION OF THE BREED:
Perro de agua español / Spanish water dog.

AREA OF DISSEMINATION:
Areas of southern spain and coastal Cantabria: a lesser proportion in the rest of spain.

GENERAL APPEARANCE:
Rural dog, medium weight, docile, well proportioned, harmonic form, of beautiful appearance, athletic and muscular from constant exercise, sub-convex profile with a straight tendency, sight, sense of smell and acute sense of hearing.

CHARACTER:
Faithful, obedient, happy, hardworking, brave and balanced: with a great capacity to learn due to its extraordinary attentiveness, adaptable to situations and of good temperament.

FUNCTIONALITY AND APTITUDES:
Water dog, shepherding and hunting, together with its owner.