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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered,
and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
~ Orison Swett Marden ~
Who is Bijou Standard Poodles ?
Since 1967 my family has always had black Poodles. Pepi was a Black Standard Poodle
who was my companion growing up. I heard stories about how as a toddler she would let me fall asleep on her
and pull her ears and poke at her, without her ever fighting back or getting up and leaving me on my own.
After Pepi passed on, we got a wonderful little miniature Poodle, we named "Teddy"
who I have very fond memories of teaching tricks to, confiding in and posing for many photos that I spent
my all my baby sitting money developing for my photo albums.
I started looking for the perfect forever breed when I moved out on my own.
I dragged friends to many breeders to check out a variety of breeds.
My one friend finally said to me "you keep comparing every breed to the poodle, just get a poodle"
Well there was no way I was getting one of those "fru fru" breeds I said, but in the end she was right
No other breed could compare to the empathetic nature and intelligence that the Standard Poodle had.
My life has always been shared with canine friends.
My interest in Dog Sports grew and expanded with every new experience and I realised that I had
found my passion in life. Something that I had so much energy and drive to learn more about and do more with.
I found that I was good at handling and training dogs and also really got joy out of sharing my passion with other
like minded people, that I met along the way and who I learned so much from. I have been doing dog sport or activities ever since.
When I started doing sports with my dogs, I soon discovered that I really wanted to be the one to have planned
and bred the dog that was doing all the winning to get the sense of accomplishment from start to finish.
I had realised that I wanted to learn and start breeding my own dogs, for my dog sports.
When I say that "I know what it is like to want to start breeding" I do, as I was once there.
But I do want you to know that myself and others who are well established, paid our dues
and it is a long difficult journey, not to be taken lightly. What breeders do effects EVERYONE and the Breed.
So here I am today with the breed that I was born with.
I know what I have in my dogs lines health, looks, pedigree and temperament wise.
I studied Pedigrees for years before I ever purchase ANY Poodle for my program.
I have short and long term goals for my program that involve 10 years down the road.
I produce pups to keep for myself and to win with at my dog sports. I know I can't keep every puppy
so on ocassion we may have pups available to the public as spayed or neutered pets.
I know exactly what I will do for a puppy buyer that is calling with ANY concern.
I am prepared to accept back any puppy whose home is unhappy or disrupted.
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I own my own home, which aids people in feeling comfortable knowing I'm going to be around a long time to help them
with any training concerns or my honoring any of my guarantees.
My home sits on an acre fully fenced lot, which allows my poodles plenty of exercise and fun with games of tag.
My Vacation home in Florida also sits on a massive lot in which our poodles enjoy fun in the sun.
Judges are always suprised at how physically fit our Poodles feel when they go over them.
Judges are even more impressed when they see how our Poodles properly move out, with loads of reach and drive that most poodles
are generally lacking from being caged and kenneled 24 hours 7 days a week, so that their show coats, remain perfectly intact.
It also does mean that I do show my poodles without 100% perfect coats or clips.
Thankfully judges usually prefer form, type and function over 2 feet of coiffed, sprayed, top knoted coats, so we have done some winning.
Our pups are born and raised in our home in our Nursery Room next to our Bedroom.
I am right in the pool with them from the moment the mom starts having her pups until she is done
having her pups, to offer her support, aid her and keep her clean and comfortable and make sure each puppy gets the best
start on life. I also document every stage of each of our puppy's lives so that Puppy owners will feel totally involved
and begin the bonding process. I want our puppy people, to feel involved as if they were right there with us and their puppy.
I have the cleanest, best Nursery area in our home, for our pups to properly develop
emotionally and physically, healthy and happy.
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I spent a small fortune in research and development to design and build the best Puppy Box
to ensure that my pups are all Clean, Happy, Healthy and have already begun their toilet training
and to learn not to mess where they live, sleep and eat. Puppies move to their Puppy Box around 2 weeks of age.
My Puppy Box is used by Breeders and trainers all over North America as a result of it's effectiveness in raising healthy clean pups
that are easier to toilet train, as they have already started.
Our pups are subjected to Biosensor stimulas and normal household
sounds, smells and textures which also enables transition from our home to yours to be less stressful.
We also practice a method of Desensitization which involves applying a normally startling stimulas and then
administering a pleasurable reward such as meal times, gradually increasing stimulas.
The result of our combining these techniques provides us with secure, confident, happy go lucky pups.
I have the support, the finances (through my working as a Full time Professional Firefighter) to afford my hobby
and the care, knowledge, conscious and established reputation it takes to raise
healthy happy dogs and puppies and to find the perfect homes.
I will make the tough choice to spay/neuter and find a loving pet home
for any of our pups or adult poodles that do not meet our expectations,
are done contributing to our program or are not producing the quality that I feel they should be and so are Retired from our program.
Some reasons can be because they don't have the temperament "I" want or not producing the quality of colour that I am trying to obtain on my pups,
instead of continuing to breed them, knowing they are not 100 % Ideal for my Breeding program or my puppy people .
A choice that breeders breeding "Pups for Profit" would NEVER choose to make at a financial loss.
This choice to retire or to find a pet home for one of my cherished poodles is an emotionally tough one to make, but no one said
that having Ethical and Reputable breeding Practices was going to be easy.
Mom......... Grandpuppy @4wks ........... Grandmother
We breed for the purpose of producing and keeping, our next Conformation, Obedience, Companion and Ideal Poodle
As a result, our pedigrees contain generations of our Poodles, that we have produced.
Our poodle parents, grandparents and great grandparents are alive and well, at 11-15 years of age.
Because I wish to only have a clean home and have our Poodles enjoyed as our pets, I can only properly house a
limited number of poodles. Anyone that has been breeding/showing/trialing as long as we have
which is over 2 decades, will eventually be faced with the same choices of limiting numbers to only the best.
Anyone ~new~ to breeding will find this difficult to understand until they are as established as ourselves.
I have had to re-home a number of fantastic Poodles just because they just didn't pass
our strict breeding standards, although were incredible Breeders and our loved pets and it doesn't get any easier.
The one thing that does make it easier, is when I find a fantastic home that embrace my poodles
as if they were always a member of their family and I see the huge grin on my Poodles faces, happy in their homes.
Breeding is not a passing fancy, my living, or an education for my children. I have been showing and trialing since 1989.
Breeding and showing is my passion and I will be doing this for many years, which means I will still be around to honour my guarantees.
I have the education to assist any puppy buyer with any problem solving, offering real and informative solutions or referals to better sources.
(UKC Rally Obedience Class qualifiyers and top 4 High Scorers, we placed 2nd !)
As a responsible breeder I am committed to provide to you the healthiest, best looking, well adjusted, calm, smartest puppy that I can.
I can best ensure this by starting out properly with the Total Poodle in mind.
Health ~ having low COI's and passing all conclusive Health Testing, breeding only dogs in top condition
Brains ~ Each Poodle has or is working towards a WORKING Title, which means breeding with a PURPOSE.
Temperament ~ breeding only calm, stable, sweet natured, Poodles to maintain our world famous reputation for breeding great dogs
Looks ~ Having Correct Conformation (according to licenced Judges) & CHAMPIONSHIPS all while improving coat colour through experience
HOW I GOT TO THIS POINT:
I was lucky enough to finally meet a breeder who would work with me.I pestered her a year until she agreed to mentor me. It took that long before I finally earned the right, in her eyes,
to buy one of her dogs for breeding purposes, all the while continuing my education
of all the ins and outs of proper breeding.
I went to all the dog shows and cleaned up all the poo,
washed and combed out the dogs and assisted at ring side, basically earning my stripes doing all the grunt work.
I also took handling, obedience, field, tracking, Schutzhund, Ring Sport, Agility, Pet Therapy Lessons.
In return for my "free work" my mentor taught me how to give vaccines, groom, remove tails and dewclaws, maintain basic medical care
so that my dogs and puppies would have immediate and proper care because I could recognize signs and symptoms
of any problems or concerns that the uneducated breeder would miss and not treat, or notice sometimes too late and differ to a Vet.
Real breeders also do their own tails and dewclaws so that they are done properly. Vets do not have the capability
to know hundreds of specific breed standards to do them properly and I want my tails and dewclaws done correctly, without
exposing my precious babies to disease and illness lurking in a Vet's office.
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My first dog and first dog show in 1980's ................ years later after a lot of learning
My mentor was also an obedience instructor and taught me how to train dogs for obedience.
She taught me the value of having healthy dogs with great temperaments that also conformed to the breed standard.
She also had me learn my breed's standard inside and out so that I could easily and quickly assess a puppy or dog's potential
and or faults and learn what I would do to improve the faults if possible.
I spent a small fortune on books and videos and spent hours learning from everyone I could find.
I also found a behaviour specialist who taught me all about canine behaviour and various alternative
methods of training and how to temperament test my dogs and puppies. As an addictions counsellor teaching
Transactional analysis and behaviour modification to humans, I have to admit I found this most facinating.
I studied pedigrees, colour breeding, genetics.
As a Nurse I think I just do have a natural interest in this field and it helps push me to continually learn more.
I joined many dog breed clubs and read many articles in my effort to educate myself.
Eventually after a great deal of accomplishments, I was established and welcomed as a valuable resource within the dog community
After many years, I began writing a monthly column under the Breedlines Headline in CKC monthly magazine for the ABCOC which helped introduce a
relatively new breed into Canada and formed the first Breed Club of it's kind which unified Responsible breeders and
became the breed's resource for many issues involving legislation within North America and around the world.
I also did breed Rescue and Rehoming for 5 years within the Club.
I wrote many articles on my breed and breeding, such as "SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREEDER? - Breeding the female"
that many years later still appears on many web pages world wide as a reference for new breeders.
Some other articles were received well enough, to be published in CKC magazine such as "Why I bought from a Puppy Mill"
which stimulated much debate, discussion and even some changes in the way we breeders practiced.
Because of my good reputation of being proactive and experienced, I was even invited to sit on my City's "Dog Legislation board"
to help come up with an alternative to banning breeds.
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As of 2011, I have written articles appearing in Poodle Variety JUNE-JULY 2011
Multi Colored Poodle Club of America's newsletter the Partiline
the online resource The Dog Press and my dogs are featured on the
United Poodle Breeder's Association web page for their accomplishments
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Because I could not keep or do a show coat on my Poodles to show with CKC or AKC, I decided to spend my energy
learning and doing obedience, later becoming an Obedience Ring Steward, Becoming a St. John's Pet Therapist,
getting my CGC (Canine Good Citizen), Becoming a CGC evaluater, doing Tracking, Agility and building Agility equipment
and even started in Schutzhund with my poodles.
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I continued to handle and show non-coated breeds to their Championships, with Group and Speciality wins within CKC and Rare Breed Associations.
I became involved with Search and Rescue through St. John Ambulance as a Lieutenant
and was involved in the planning of the first St. John Ambulanc SAR Dog program in my City, before we moved away.
I believe good breeders should "constantly" learn, grow and develop, to improve and aspire, as the public and themselves will benefit.
I feel as a breeder, I can do that through club affiliations, attending shows and learning from the judges we show under.
Because of my continued interest in DNA testing I was invited to and did, participate in VetGen's Lab
search for the DNA marker for the brown gene which thanks to the efforts of myself and other brown breeders was achieved !
We complete EVERY conclusive health testing available and as it comes available
Because of my ongoing interest in genetics and accomplishments in COLOR Breeding
I have been credited in the CFA History books as creating (actually should be bringing forth to light) a newer colour into acceptance
to the breed standard. In 2006 I was asked by CTM to publish a more indepth article about my discovery of another new
color within the Persian breed, called Cinnamon.
In 2010 we were instrumental in bringing to light a new DNA test available to screen for Renal Dysplasia
which became OFA accepted in 2011. While Dr. Mary Whiteley is still fine tuning her test, this is a huge breakthrough
for our breed and for us as breeders to keep aware of.
In 2011 Bijou Poodles was the first to discover a DNA test through HealthGene that would identify Parti colour and Mismark carriers.
In 2011 Bijou Poodles decided to aid our Canine Community by holding a yearly CERF Clinic in our home.
As of 2011, Bijou Poodles is one of the first and only red Standard Poodle breeders in the world
to utilize ALL DNA health screening and OFA testing available to Standard Poodle Breeders such as the following:
Hip and Elbow Dysplasia, Patella Luxation, Thyroid Disease, Legg-Calve-Perthes, Degenerative Myelopathy
Congenital Cardiac Disease, Von Willebrand's Disease, Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures Disorder,
and CERF (Canine Eye Registration Foundation ).
We are always investigating and discovering new ways to test our dogs, to ensure we produce the best quality that we can.
Of course offering these type of assurances to our Puppy People is very costly and time consuming, but we feel
when people are looking for their lifetime companion, they will want the best assurances they can get to a healthy puppy.
Learning and growing to become a Reputable Breeder sounds like a long process ? Well it was and it is ongoing.
That is why I say I am ~ EARNING ~ the right to breed.
It took me 3 years from expressing an interest in breeding
to actually owning a show quality puppy and 5 years before having my first litter.
~ My learning never stops ~
In this hobby there is always learning opportunities and I aspire to keep up to date and an open mind.
Now many years later (over 20 years) I own Quality dogs and or Puppies for my program
and offer support to people for any training, grooming, feeding questions or problems they may encounter.
God forbid there is any health problems, but if there is, I am still going to be around,
enabling my contract and guarantees to be honoured.
Lure Coursing
Conformation
Obedience
We don't just "say" we produce Total Dogs
we have the UKC TOTAL DOG AWARDS to prove it !!
Not everyone agrees with my Breeding Practices and they don't have to,
as they don't understand our goals for the future or what we are accomplishing.
Bijou Poodle's next generation of Red Standard Poodles
Grand Champion "Bijou's Cherry Blossom"
Grand Champion - "Bijou's Ooh La La" #4 in UKC's TOP 10 FOR 2011
Grand Champoin - "Bijou's Dare to be Different" #9 in UKC's TOP 10 FOR 2011
Because of our World Wide Reputation of owning and producing amazing Poodles
and our ethics, we have been invited and did join most "code of ethics" breed clubs
which are listed at the bottom of our Main Page
The one thing that no one can deny, is the fact that we have some of
the Calmest, Sweetest Natured, Loving, Beautiful, Healthy, Red and Brown Poodles
with Correct Conformation found in the World. (Just read our references)
Our pups have had such perfect temperaments and health, that we contributed and are asked yearly
for more pups to join Lion's Seeing Eye Dog Foundation for guide dogs.
We have mentally & physically healthy, well socialized, happy, good looking adults and puppies.
Which is all anyone can really ask for and hope for.
One of our Puppies in the Lion's Seeing Eye Dog Program
We are very busy taking dog lessons, going to dog shows, Training our Dogs, grooming, cleaning
Updating video and or photo on each of our dogs for everyone to see,
continually trying to learn new skills and accomplish more titles on our dogs to prove
that we have the great dogs that we say we do
(We walk the talk )
and this helps us to provide the best foundation that we know how, to ensure we own and are producing the next generation
of the healthiest, smartest, greatest looking pups and dogs that we can.
No matter how busy we are, we are available 24/7 to anyone needing help,
to answer questions or be a support for any issues that come their way.
We hope that all ~ our ~ health testing, Working and Conformation titles, OFA health clearances,
our diligence to own only the best foundation Poodles to start with and our manyReferences and Titles
will speak volumes for us.
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(from the beginning as puppies .................................... to our amazing Adults)
Breeding Red and Brown Poodles is a long and ongoing process for me, because I'm trying to
keep our Health and Temperament, gain even deeper, darker Colour that sustains, continue to have correct Conformation and Type
without comprimise and without loosing anything or going backwards on any quality.
The science, studying, data collecting, formulating, calculating, planning,
implimenting, assessing and then Evaluating each litter is a great deal of work, VERY expensive and frustrating at times.
However all that effort provides a great deal of joy, when I see my planning come into fruition
and the pups grow into the cherished, Stunning amazing adults that I hoped and planned that they would be.
One answer I have is that "I don't care so much about the now... now doesn't matter any longer, as it is here.
I see what "now" can get me in 3-5 years and then in 10 years where I will be with my Breeding Program and what
accomplisments I will be able to achieve. I constantly strive to grow and improve, in my hobby and in my life.
I often get asked "why do you breed" ? This is so hard for me to answer, as how to I explain Passion and Vision ?
How do I explain that with each Breeding I get that much closer to MY and my Breed's Ideal.
How to articulate the sense of pride and accomplishment when a puppy I have bred grows up to not only be
a cherished and well loved companion, but who also is a hunting buddy, fufilling their breed's purpose every hunting season
Or goes in the breed ring and is evaluated as being so close to the breed standard that they are awarded Best in breed or Group wins.
I think the greatest sense of accomplishment has to be producing a puppy that gets an obedience title and or placing in top 5 or HIC OR HIT.
However what makes me most happy, is hearing from our puppy people about the joy that one of our pups brought to their lives, such as
one of our pups we placed in a home with a women with MS who is using her puppy as emotional support and "physical helper" keeping
her steady from falling, saving her from injuries, and more recently one of our pups who helped their owner discover she had Sqeamous cancer
and so she received medical attention before it could develop into melanoma.
We are continually enjoy many stories like these about our amazing pups.
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