[nagdu] Raising Poodles

Wed Sep 7 22:35:38 UTC 2011

Are those blues born reallyy black?  We had a rat terrier that was so black 
if she was in the right light, she looked blue!
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From: "GARY STEEVES" <rainshadowmusic at shaw.ca>
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Raising Poodles


> Bogart is called a blue poodle. This means that when I got him he was 
> almost entirely black with just a hint of lighter colours on his  nose and 
> tips  of his ears. A year later, age 3 and many groomings, he is now 
> pretty much a beautiful puter colour with some black highlights. I've been 
> told that he is one awesome looking dog (yes by others besides Bogart 
> himself!)
>
> Gary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tami Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
> Date: Monday, September 5, 2011 1:06 pm
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Raising  Poodles
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>
>> 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
>> lightento 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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>> > From: <t21114 at optonline.net>
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>> > Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:47 PM
>> > Subject: [nagdu] Raising Poodles
>> >
>> >
>> > > 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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