Besides the ridiculous hair cut (Rita Rudner used to ask if other dogs thought Poodles were part of a cult) I have no problem with Standard Poodles. The Toy Poodle, however, is a breed that I have rarely ever seen a pleasant dog from. Very aggressive, very tempermental, and (as you point out) not very intelligent.
Our toy is very pleasant with people and incredibly tolerant of young children. When she’s had enough, she goes cat and gets up on a high peice of furniture out of reach.
But she is aggressive as hell with other animals, dogs, cats, squirrels, sheep, llamas and alpacas. I would never let her near a horse or cows, she’d stampede them for sure.
She’s the only dog I’ve seen stupid enough to charge a llama. She’s only alive because the llama was laughing so hard, I’m sure (they guard the sheep).
We had a toy poodle when I was a teen and Jacques was a sweet little thing. He was never aggressive. But then all of us kids, even the young ones, never bedeviled him.