[nagdu] Raising Poodles

Sun Sep 11 23:08:02 UTC 2011

Hi Larry,
Both Liam, my current guide, and Whitney, my previous one, are/were black 
Labs, and the same thing applied to them, especially after a bath.  They 
look blue if the sun hits them just right.
Best,
Nat and Liam Joshua

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Raising Poodles

> 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!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "GARY STEEVES" <rainshadowmusic at shaw.ca>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 5:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Raising Poodles
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>> 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!
>>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> > From: <t21114 at optonline.net>
>>> > To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog
>>> Users"
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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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