[nagdu] Raising Poodles

[Larry D. Keeler]

Well, they do say that dogs and there partners start to look and act alike! 
Maybe that's the hair thing!  Holly will be 5 in December.  Her hair doesn't 
have so much curl to it but it is supposedly liver colored!
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From: "Tami Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Raising Poodles


> 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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>> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:47 PM
>> Subject: [nagdu] Raising Poodles
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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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