[nagdu] Raising Poodles

[Tami Kinney]

Hm... I think the color called red in standard poodles is fairly new.
It's a darker red than the apricot, though many red puppies will lighten
to apricot. This breeder's dogs hold their color really well, I guess,
and she also produces some new-fangled designer colors like blue or
silver or something called chimera or something mythological like that.
Also, she breeds more for temperament than anything, so she certainly
did get that with Mitzi poodle! Very mellow, Mitzi is, even when she was
a pup. For a poodle. /grin/ Kinda like a mild tornado or something, you
know. 

Anyway, that's the sum of my knowledge about poodles and color. Oh, I
forget to mention chocolate. It's a darker red with more brown in it.
Not quite as liver colored as the lab version of chocolate, but it does
fit the description. 

My little black throwback is 5 now and just beginning to have a few
silver or white hairs here and there. Except for the white coonhound
hairs that get caught in her curls and get forced into curliness. /lol/
Still, unless someone happens to be looking really closely at Mitzi in
really bright light, she still appears to be perfectly black. Which I am
fine with. Since my hair is not only curly but dirty dishwater (thank
you, whoever came up with that description!), I would hate to have an
apricot poodle with exactly the same color hair. It's bad enough that
people sometimes do assume that I get my hair permed so that it will be
like my dog's. Well, I've also had people ask me how long it took to
curl her hair like that and I I did it every morning or it was some kind
of permanent and how much it cost. I thought they were joking, but they
kept asking while I tossed off flip answers and laughed my head off.
Oh. They really did want to know how I curled my dog's hair like that.
Um... Took awhile, actually, in one case to communicate that no,
really,k the dog was born that way. And so was I. Really. Yes,
really! /lol/

I've known a few miniature poodles who were a lot like tiny standard
poodles, but not many. And, well, they're more very similar in look and
temperament. The standard poodle, I've discovered, is very much a thing
unto itself. What kind of thing, I cannot be sure. /smile/

Tami

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 20:09 -0400, Larry D. Keeler wrote: 
> I've learned that the standard poodle is quite a different thing from those 
> little things!  But, I also have a poodle-westy mix and he is probably one 
> of the smartest dogs I've ever met!  I wonder if the red is the same as 
> champgne?  We actually didn't see black.  We saw, white, apricot and 
> silver-grey!
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> > Hi Larry,
> > I use to breed mini poodle's back in the 80's. I had a black female and 
> > male apricot. They produced black puppy's. I have never heard of a red 
> > poodle either. My friend who is a puppy walker is raising one that is 
> > turning silver. She is a little over a year old and will stay with the 
> > puppy walker until she is 18 months. Another friend is raising her sister 
> > to be a guide dog who is black
> > Marilyn and Anna
> >
> >
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