[nagdu] Raising Poodles

Wed Sep 7 21:38:57 UTC 2011

Ooooh! Handsome, handsome boy! The breeder I got Mitzi from has (or had)
a blue male that was a silvery smoky blue. I could still see his picture
back then and fell in love! Don't know how old that male was when his
picture was taken, but it was very awesome, especially with that poodle
grin, complete with head tilt. Oh, yeah, he knows how to smile for the
camera. /lol/ 

That dark smoky blue you describe on Bogart must be amazing. Well, I
love my jet black girl, and people ooh and aah over her thick, shiny
coat. It really gleams, although I've only seen all the glints it throws
off in a couple of digital photos. I don't know if I'll ever be able to
see what color she becomes as she slowly silvers; I do know an
8-year-old small standard poodle that didn't start to silver until 5 or
so, and she's pretty cool looking. Some black poodles do turn a sort of
dingy gray, so I'll just have to wait to find out with Mitzi. /smile/ To
me, she'll always be a poodle shaped black silhouette with no eyes even
though I can feel their power. /lol/ 

Tami

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 14:12 -0700, GARY STEEVES wrote: 
> Bogart is called a blue poodle. This means that when I got him he was almost entirely black with just a hint of lighter colors on his  nose and tips  of his ears. A year later, age 3 and many groomings 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" 
> > > <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> > > 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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