Hi Magpie, nice to hear you have a Schnauzer, (standard) we lost ours recently.
We chose a Schnauzer for a simular reason. We heard that it is about the oldest dog on record, not tampered with, going back as far as the 1400 AD. Pretty bloody long time.
That of course not being the only reason; we just love the look of them and their temperament, and ours was very easy to train.
In Germany they were actually bred as ratters – good for catching snake food he,he.
The miniature schnauzer has a bit of miniature poodle and some terrier, and the Giant Schnauzer has bull-mastiff and poodle, but the standard is the original version.
I hope I didn’t get too carried away here.
