October Glory Standard Poodles

10/02/2024

And that's why it's very important to respect a breeders boundaries when it comes to visitation and never come by unannounced. There are certain precautions that must take place before anyone enters the premises and the yard... You can literally destroy someone's breeding program by not following their protocols...

Parvo is a virus attacks white blood cells and the gastrointestinal tract of dogs, and in puppies, the virus also can damage the heart muscle. It is highly contagious and can be transmitted in a number of ways, including contact with an infected dog or its f***s. It can also be transmitted through indirect contact, such as a shared food bowl, kennel, or through the hands of someone who has handled an infected dog. It can also be spread through environmental contact, such as in grass or on shoes, clothing, or equipment.

06/20/2024

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01/30/2024

Cool, calm and collected.
It's hard for puppies sometimes to wind down especially in the first few days of being in their new home.
It takes several days for them to decompress and several weeks to adjust fully to a new environment, new people, new friends etc.
Have patience and understanding. They left their first home and their mother, siblings and breeder for the first time and they are young. Give them good and calm experiences first and foremost.

Puppies can display a variety of stress signals when they are feeling anxious, fearful, or overwhelmed. Here's a list of what you can watch for.

07/26/2023

06/18/2023

04/23/2023

Let's talk about the things that many breeders pass up and miss and don't want to talk about when they are considering what poodles they are breeding.
Those things are snouts, ears, paws, and tails.

I see so many poodles out there with flawed structure that clearly has never been worked on in a line. Everyone is always so focused on the main body structure that they forget about the small bodily things that also matter. The structure of these things make a big difference as well in the natural appearance of poodles.

*Many standard poodles have extremely narrow muzzles which typically result in narrow-based canines teeth or worse a wry mouth and some have muzzles that are huge in boxy.
-The muzzle should be tapered and of nice proportion. Not too narrow and not too wide. Not too long and not too short.
*Many standard poodles have ears that are too small, too triangular and too low or high sitting.
-The corners of the ears where they meet the head as well as the corners of the eyes should line up with each other in the ears should be wide enough across the leather and long enough from the base of the ear to the tip of the ear to basically mask the dog's face if you put their ears together on the front of their face. The goal would be for the tips of the ears to meet the tip of the nose in this case. If the ears are too short this will not be possible.
*Many standard poodles have large flat paws with bear feet.
-the paws should be compact, square (even)and neat. Almost cat-like but not quite. They should not be flat and gigantic like a bear paw.
*Many standard poodles have curled, gay or kinked tails.
-The structure of the tail should be high set on the rear straight up like a flagpole and the tip should typically be even with the occiput of the skull when in a proper stack position. On natural tails there would be a natural arch in the tail when erect in a proper stack and that is normal but it should not be severely or tightly curled or curled much at all especially if the tail is relaxed. If the tail looks like a roller coaster track loop it's very incorrect, and so many breeders are not even aware of the structure that their dog actually has in their tail because their tails are typically docked off at 3 days of age so there's no way of knowing how bad the tail structure actually was.
As we know puppy bones are not yet fused nor fully developed yet so the bones were never able to set or harden during this time. One litter can have a variety of physical traits in it. Some puppies might have nice relaxed tails that are straight and some puppies might have tightly curled tails but with the tail being docked off almost halfway that takes a lot of the tail off where most of the structural fault would take place. And that is the problem. Traditionally poodles are docked in a show dock or a long dock. The long dock is technically more correct by standard whereas a show dock as the name suggests is for show and is typically actually too short.
When a breeder has the tail docked to "show" length it is nearly half the tail that is taken off. It's about a third of the tail usually where the curl would be if there is one. With a long dock only a fourth is taken off leaving a slightly longer and more correct length. But The curl would be slightly more obvious if there was one.

All of these things are POOR STRUCTURE and should not be reproduced or bred. So if you are breeding poodles with these traits and you are aware of that then you are purposely breeding poodles with structural flaws...

I see many breeders constantly preaching about ethical breeding practices and breeding properly and pairing dogs properly for certain traits or health but even they forget about these small things that make a big difference in the appearance of a poodle. Most of them just hide it with big poofy hair, an ok stacked pic, and docking the tail off. Those things don't fix the issue they only hide them. So the next time you want to talk about someone else's poodles be sure you look at your own first and ask yourself, "what am I really reproducing in this line or breed?"
Let's not forget about those ewe necks, low set tails and ears and sloped haunches 👀

That being said, that is highly unethical.
And anyone who says those things are not as big a deal as other things when breeding, I hope you don't use that excuse for other things in breeding. Everything has to be taken into consideration to be considered ethical. So if you're missing something like these structural flaws don't call yourself an ethical breeder if you're knowingly contributing these flaws to the breed because that is literally unethical. It is just as unethical as breeding a known disease or major structural flaw like a wry mouth for example.
Please beware
please be knowledgeable
please be responsible.

You're supposed to better the breed, right? not keep flaws going?... 🤔 (And bettering the breed is a whole other conversation after this lol iykyk)
Food for thought 💭

01/23/2023

*Our opinion on removal of body parts (docking tails and removing dewclaws).

I always see the excuse when it comes to removing dewclaws or tails on puppies that it's to prevent them from being caught on things or snagged or broken etcetera. But that is totally illogical. Now let's use that logic on other parts of the body. Well your regular toes might get caught on things, or get broken, stubbed on the corner of a wall or worse, stepped on by something bigger than your foot, so let's just remove the toes in general so there's no risk to the toes, and while we're at it let's also remove the legs which can easily be broken or degloved and god forbid if the dog falls off the couch or heaven forbid a balcony or porch and breaks its legs or ribs. Heck lets remove the ribs too to prevent injury. Don't want those accidently broken either.
Ok now whats left?
Hmm....not much. Well let's just "prevent injury" some more and just kill the dog to begin with.. there, now there is no risk at all to the dog...
Whats that? Thats ridiculous?

But its literally the same logic as with tails being removed(docked) and dewclaws being removed at a few days old without anesthetic. Some people have claimed that the puppies do not feel their tails being cut off or their dew claws being cut off. That is so far from the truth it is ridiculous. If a puppy does not react that doesn't mean it does not feel what's happening. The very few times that my puppies were docked and their dew claws removed, they screamed in pure puppy agony. Did you even know that most dogs will not express pain by means of crying and making noise like a human because they are dogs and not humans so if they are in fact crying it must really freaking hurt. Have you ever had your thumb or your tailbone cut off? No? Why on earth not? There is so much risk to those things... what's that? you only do that to puppies? What? Its for show? What? You do know that they do not have to have their tails or dew claws cut off to be in the show ring right? And yeah that includes AKC shows contrary to belief...thats an old belief and look what excessive docking has done to the natural tail of a breed that SHOULD have a straight tail...horrible curls, even kinks....should never be that way...those curls are painful, ever touched one? I have, the dog screamed in pain when the tail was slightly uncurled by its owner...during a groom to brush the hair on its tail. And no it wasn't cuz the dog was overly sensitive or bad for grooming. The dogs tail was so tightly curled the ligaments couldn't straighten....that is a GIANT STRUCTURAL FAULT in any breed. Something that is purposely done and causes an animal pain is totally unethical. People need to concentrate on straightening these tails and you cannot do that if you cut them off because then you do not even know if the tail would curl naturally or if it would be straight naturally because it's no longer there to see. That's why I do not dock anymore cuz I'm actually trying to improve that in the breed and again you cannot improve that without seeing it for yourself.
But hey let's just cut it all off and have no more risk of "getting caught on things".

Like, you do realize that life and being alive in the world is a risk every single day for your entire body and not just a little tiny dewclaws on puppies or their tails right?

Now I am not saying never ever dock the tails of a breed that traditionally was docked (for working purposes in the field where most no longer work) but you need to think about why you are doing it because saying "its for show or to prevent injiry" is severely outdated and incorrect and illogical in the 21st century, and what could potentially happen if you do it. Like what are you contributing to the breeds tail structure if you don't even know what kind of tails you are producing because you just hack them off at birth? Every breeder out there needs to be considering this because creating a structural fault, including something that is normally cut off and you would not normally see it, is still unethical as a breeder. It's literally by definition, unethical to produce structural faults. A curled tail on a poodle is a structural fault! Doesn't matter how you try to justify it, breeders need to be bettering things instead of making them worse.

Do you know what logic is?
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Again, I'm not against docking or dew claws removal. Do whatever you want with your pups. But you need to look further ahead in the future for the breed if you claim to love it so much and you claim to be improving it yet you're contributing to structural faults. You need to know what you are producing 100% not 97%. You only know that if you leave the Tails natural from each pair breeding at least. I recommend doing it with the very first litter when combining two dogs. If you breed a female with a straight tail to another male with a straight tail the puppies should have straight tails. But if you've bred that same female to another male with a docked tail and you don't know what the tail structure would have been from that line and half the puppies have horrible curls and the other half have nice straight tails there is obviously a problem there. A structural one. Those are the facts of the matter so you need to consider that when you pair dogs together. I always see people talking about "the dogs have to compliment each other" and stuff but they never ever ever ever ever consider the tails structure because they are simply docked off.
As a breeder I cannot imagine doing that personally. I learned quickly that it should not be that way. Over docking has caused this problem in poodles Tails so we need to fix it. It Is literally up to us breeders to correct this. Leave them natural at least for the first litter of two dogs combined and see what those two dogs have produced first and then the next litter you can dock if it's the same parents if you so choose, but please....for the love of the breed leave a pairs first litter natural and see what they produce first! That's how it should be done. That is the ethical way to correct a fault like that.

Now I know what some of you must be thinking... well I do all the health testing and my dogs have titles and blah blah blah the tail is the least bit important... I'm sorry but that statement is unethical because the tail is part of the dog and you're still producing a structural fault which is literally unethical so I don't care how many titles your dog has and I don't care what health testing they have. That does not mean anything when it comes to structure. Any dog can get a title if they are going at it long enough and happen to have the right judge that day. We all know how showing works. We all know how political I can get and we all know how easy it is to forget the important things like structure of something that is cut off and forgotten about. I wonder how many showchampions have horrible structure in their tail but you wouldn't see it because they are docked. I bet if it was left natural they wouldn't be Champions half the time. LOL but that's my opinion. Take it however you want this is the truth of the matter. The ugly truth and an unpopular opinion but someone has to say it and I'm glad to be the One to say it. Removing something just because it's an inconvenience is not a logical reason to remove something from someone else's body. Especially when it's contributing to faults. If you are a breeder and you say that a tail structure does not matter just because they can be cut off and forgotten about you should not be breeding...plain and simple...take your horrible tail structure elsewhere. Thanks.

P.s. I came to this conclusion on my own after my very first litter of poodles which yes I foolishly docked and removed the dew claws as it was recommended by supposed reputable breeders... I have since learned that is very wrong in so many ways and I hope others can think about it harder than the hearsay and learn for the better as well. You have to think about the future Generations not the ones you're seeing right now. That's what I'm doing and that's why I leave mine natural.

01/06/2023

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01/06/2023

I will be looking for either a new male poodle for my program or a stud for my 2 girls when they are mature. Swanna is now 2 it is currently on her third heat. She should be bree for h first time in Autumn 2023 and another ½ year for Olenna at least. No rush.

*Swanna is currently in heat but we are skipping this heat due to bad timing with life circumstances. Hopefully by Autumn we can finally get a first litter from her. Her next heat after this would be sometime in August probably or September 2023 which would make the pups ready around Halloween if we do have a litter then. If you'd like to get on our waitlist just PM us!
We will most likely use a parti stud so all the pups would be parti-color.
*Olenna is currently a year and a half old and has not yet has her first heat so she probably won't be able to have her first litter if all goes well in that time until late 2024 at the earliest. And I will be looking for a phantom stud for her.

Swanna and Olenna will have some gorgeous pups guaranteed!
Swanna's genetics for color:
Ay/a
As/As
b/b
E/e
Kb/ky
m/m
sp/sp

Olenna's genetics for color:
Ay/at
As/As
B/b
m/m
sp/sp
(Still need to test K and E locus but should be the same as her sister)

I Will be looking for a male that is clear genetically for DM (and clear for everything else) and looking for following color genetics and structure:
at/at, at/ay, at/a
As/As
B/b, b/b
E/e, e/e
Kbr/ky, ky/ky
I/I, I/i
S/sp, sp/sp

Must have:
Straight top line, a natural tail structure (no docked dogs) that is 50% or more straighter than curled and high set at the base, proud, regal stance when stacked, good angulation in legs, large ears (the tips of which should be able to reach the tip of the Poodles nose and cover the dogs face like a mask, many lines nowadays produce small ears which is incorrect and often overlooked, much like tail structure), deep chest (not deer barreled), square stature when in proper stack (please post stack photos of you stud or puppy if you have them), proper neck length (should be the same length or close to the dogs shoulder blade length from the point of the chest to the withers.), moderately long, tapered muzzle, or wider, classic type structure like *Harvey (*shown below).

LMK what you have available for stud. Shipped frozen semen is fine and i would prefer to AI but open to live cover if you live nearby.
Open to Puppy back option pending stud options.

Please PM if you have a good stud option for my girls

01/06/2023

01/02/2023

Running a business is hard.

What they don’t tell you is that it can cause severe anxiety, and drains you mentally to the point of depression in even the most laid back people.

People will talk about you, compare you to others, use you, they will view you as a service and not a person anymore.

Friends will expect discounts on everything and value you and your hard work less than a big chain store. Not to mention that you are providing a specialized service. I can’t imagine going to your hairdresser and getting your hair done and never tipping. I don’t think you’re hairdresser would continue to “find appointments or even fit you in “ when you can’t be bothered to show your appreciation for their specialized services. Basically I am a hairdresser for your child that doesn’t sit still and doesn’t have the ability to communicate, and I am chasing them around a grooming table, trying to meet your expectations, and after all that, you tell me they look great, but no tip.

Starting up and running a successful business puts incredible strain on personal lives and relationships, many of which fail because there is just often no work life balance.

You need to be the director, the worker, the admin, the marketing team, the accountant, the cleaner..... All whilst being a parent, a wife, family support, friend...

There’s a reason you don’t see many people succeed in small businesses after 5-10 years. It takes a toll. It’s freaking exhausting. Especially this past year.

Here’s a small reminder that we are just normal people with hectic lives. Be kind, be patient….. and hopefully more of us will stick around!

❤ I copied this from a friend and thought it was pretty spot on!

12/13/2022

Our lovely trio ❤️💜💜 Sire and daughter's
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11/17/2022

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October Glory Standard Poodles - AKC Standard Poodles