Posh dog breeds😁 (posted on chat but thought it was more suitable here!)

[Londonlassie12]

Around here it's the cross breeds like cockapoos or cavachons or else cocker spaniels that the mc/uc own.. Maybe it's just our part of London?
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The areas I work in that are more wealthy tend to have black labradors and border terriers. There’s sometimes the odd spaniel or collie thrown in the mix.

The less affluent areas are mainly filled with poos and chihuahua crosses at the moment.

My Golden Retriever is posh.
I didn’t realise until I met a couple so posh it actually hurt (he had red trousers and everything) and she told me she always had Retrievers as they were “vair smart hinds” (say it out loud)
As for other posh dogs I think of Labs, scruffy mutts and Border Terriers.
Less posh breeds - anything doodle, French bulldogs and pugs

Flat coat retrievers! They are the original gun dogs before labs came along (labs are more trainable and less thick).
In fact Country Life did a book called 'Posh Dogs' and the cover was a row of flatties. How they got them to sit in a row, I'll never know.
www.amazon.co.uk/Posh-Dogs-Country-Life-Magazine/dp/1910258768?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

This video eventually persuaded my husband to get an Irish Terrier, the woman in the video and the others are seriously posh our one is slightly thick but adorable and very posh looking

YY to the black lab/spaniel/terrier combo being the classic country dog pack but also WTF Brenda? to the ultimate designer dog breeder, HM the Q and her structurally dubious 'dorgis'...

We have a massive hairy hound, who looks as if she was born to lie in front of a castle fireplace.

@wetotter

If Norfolk terriers count as posh, then presumable Norwiches are even more so?

They're the working, small, hairy kind of random terrier posh, with added rarity (Norfolk on the 'watch' list and Norwich on the 'vulnerable')

Strangely no it has nothing to do with rarity. Norwich and Norfolk's were actually one breed till 1969 and the wealthy (horsey) always preferred the drop ear.

Gundogs & terriers tend to be the ones owned by landed folk.

I suppose you could make a case for Pekingese being the poshest
Pekingese were recorded to have been kept in China at the time of the Shu dynasty 2,000 years ago where only the Imperial family were permitted to own them. They were bred for religious purposes, but they became the pet of the emperors and his family.
Common people had to bow down to a Pekingese, if one of them were to pass nearby. Removing them from the palace precinct was a crime punishable by death.

In 1860, the summer palace in Beijing was stormed by English troops, heralding the end of the mighty Chinese Empire. The Imperial dogs – carefully bred and nurtured for many centuries were slaughtered – to prevent them from falling into foreign hands. But 5 of the animals survived unnoticed in the chaos. These dogs were brought to England and the smallest one was presented to Queen Victoria.

My grandmother showed & bred them & when I was five I awoke Christmas morning to find a puppy with a big red bow round his neck on my bed, the first of “my very own” dogs

The breeds of dogs that landowning, titled posh people I know have are generally flat coated labs, pointers or perhaps a working cocker.

Round here, it's labs, retrievers and spaniels of some description. Working dogs as opposed to hybrids!

Working dogs for sure. If a dog has a place in some form of field sports, then you’ll find them in many a UMC and UC home.

Agree with @Luckingfovely re: assumed Lab hierarchy - but then I would, I have a gorgeous Red Fox, bred for field sports, multiple FTCh’s in her pedigree .

I see alot of the insta "country living" bloggers have either springer or cocker spaniels... They look immaculate, the dogs & the houses....

@LaurieFairyCake Love it can very much relate as we own a pug too. He thinks he's a prince 👑 (one that eats horse poo with fox poo being his perfume of choice)

They’re only intermittently posh now, but I was looking at our greyhound lying in front of the (gas) fire in the kitchen last night and thought of his ancestors doing the same in medieval castles - and picking up scraps thrown from the table. What others would there have been? Spaniels, mastiffs?

Definitely spaniels!

What about greyhounds and whippets? Around here wealthy people seem to rescue ex racing hounds

Labs and spaniels are quite classic but lurchers/deerhounds/wolfhounds are truly posh - the kind of dogs you see lounging around in castles.

Frenchies/cavapoos/bichons etc - totally nouveaux.

We have gundogs. Spaniels and labs. Our house definitely isn't immaculate or posh.

I think lurchers are a mad one... They are very popular with the "horsey set" we know who are terrible dog snobs... However lurchers are also a crossbreed so no better really than the average cockapoo or cavachon!
@debutabte911 I'm totally nouveaux, I have 2 bichon frieses & we are getting a cavachon around Easter 🤞 we are getting a bichon cross as the two we already have are so amazing no dog will ever compare so a bichon cross will be the next best thing for us!

We have an Airedale and a black lab!
Does that make us posh🤣

I have a border collie, where does she fall on the posh scale?

The one time in my life I’ve been invited to a proper landowning Squire’s estate they had about seven golden retrievers.

We brought our golden along with us when he was a puppy and he made a proper tit of himself being all naughty while their dogs looked at him like this

We have Norfolk terriers, only thing we have in common with the Royals

Since having them, often get stopped by people who look and sound posh to ask about them. These often seem to have far larger gun dogs in attendance, pointers, setters or labs. Perhaps they are just wondering why our scruffy terriers aren't out ratting in the barns!

The poshest person I know (not only sounds posh, but is descended from William the Conqueror by way of John of Gaunt and sundry earls) has a black lab and a cocker.

It really is such a boring part of mumsnet all the discussion of what is posh and what isn’t. Do you honestly all look up to these ‘posh’ people, impressed by their dog selection 🙄🙄

As for calling people nouveaux riche. Just a way to get a dig in at people who work hard and better themselves. How dare they spend their hard earned money on things they like eh.

We rehomed a poodle mix and already had a working breed lab. He is certainly the more regal of the 2. She would eat shit if we let her

Appreciate you're referring to posh owners but my boy is the equivalent of early 20s Prince Harry, posh, a bit scrappy and a tad ginger 😁