![]() ![]() We do not believe that the Toller has any rival as an all-purpose hunting dog, particularly under Canadian hunting conditions. We use the Toller as a flushing type dog for woodcock, pheasant, and partridge, as well as a toller and retriever for duck hunting. The duck was a big Black, almost as large as the dog himself, but he managed to drag it across a field vigorously wagging his tail. Red, one of our champion stud dogs, the top Toller in Canada for 1970, retrieved his first duck at twelve weeks of age. Both the sire and dam of one of our breeding females are Obedience Trial Champions. The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever is an exceptionally intelligent dog and very easy to train. The main breeders were avid duck hunters who did not want competition in the lakes or on the marshes. The Toller was not as well known in the past, probably because of restrictive distribution practices of the original, and most of the subsequent breeders, who did not usually allow females to leave their kennels. The Labrador began its development only a little earlier in the 1800s. The Golden, for example, began its development only two years before the Toller. As a breed, the Toller is nearly as old as the other popular retriever breeds, such as the Labrador, Chesapeake, and Golden. It was developed in Canada, by Canadians, and for Canadian hunting conditions. The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever is a “Truly Canadian Dog”. The Toller was not at any stage of its development influenced by breedings in any other country. If the present trend continues, the Toller may well become one of the most popular dogs in Canadian history. In 1995, the 50th Anniversary of the recognition of the breed by the Canadian Kennel Club, The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever was officially recognized as Nova Scotia’s Provincial dog by the Nova Scotia legislature. The breed has gained more recognition in recent years, and there are now breeders located across Canada, the United States, and several other countries around the world. Originally, the Toller was called the Little River Duck Dog, due to its place of origin, but through the efforts of Cyril Colwell of Halifax, the breed was officially registered with the Canadian Kennel Club in 1945 as the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Owned by Jim Jeffery, Handled by Deanna Jeffery The idea was to develop a dog that resembled the Red Fox small, playful, and intelligent with the retrieving ability of the large retriever breeds and the hunting instincts inherent in the Sporting Dog Group. Furthermore, the possibility of breeding with the Brittany Spaniel and the Golden Retriever at some time cannot be ruled out. It is also possible that breedings with the Collie or Shetland sheepdog were introduced to produce the heavily feathered tail and the herding instincts which the Toller now possesses. Very shortly afterward, a crossing with an Irish Setter introduced the fox red colour of the present day Toller. Bitches from the resulting litter were bred to a brown Cocker Spaniel. James Allen, also of Yarmouth, obtained from the captain of a schooner, a female, liver-coloured, English Flat-Coated retriever to which Allen mated a short-coated Labrador-like retriever. The most commonly quoted account of the breed’s origination is that in the year 1860 a Mr. ![]() The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, usually called the Toller, began its development in the Little River district of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. WHAT IS A NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER? 1ST TOLLER TO WIN A FIRST PLACE IN THE SPORTING GROUP IN CKC SHOWS ![]()
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