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Bijou Poodles wishes to thank Shangri-la, Palmares and Majestic Kennels for providing
the quotes and the photos for the use in this article
(photo of a beautiful Shangri-la bred Red Standard Poodle)
Shangri-la and Palmares kennel are credited with creating the Red Standard Poodle in the 1980's.
A quote from Ilse M. Konig of Shangri-La kennel's web page:
"The Red standard poodle was created by crossing
a small english apricot Standard female from Shangri-la
to an oversized red Minature male from Palmares".
Later Shangri-la and Palmares worked together doing several breedings, keeping the darkest and the larger of the pups.
Possibly the most known breeding, was the breeding of male,
"Follow The Sun Von Shangri-La" (apricot) x "Pamares Spice for Shangri-La" (red).
From there they kept pups and bred back and forth together to establish and correct size and proportions.
(Breeding a Miniature to Standard Poodle is acceptable and able to be registered within AKC).
(2010 - Janet Blannin her red Standard "Ginger" and her toy "Canella")
Janet Blannin from Palmares Kennels is still breeding Standard & Toy Poodles
as well as Chinese Cresteds, with the help of her son Robert Blannin.
As of 2010 they do not have a web page.
(Ilse Kong and Poodle "Bagel")
Ilse Kong of Shangri-la kennel passed away on October 10, 2005.
Up until that point in time, Shangri-la was in Catskill NY.
In 2005 Melissa Muldery inherited Shangri-la dogs and moved to her home in East Greenbush
and continued with the Shangri-la kennel name breeding the colors Ilse always did of brown, apricot, red, black and silver.
While Melissa has not entered into the "multi color" world in terms of breeding, she did have a red sable phantom produced from all solid lines.
His official name is Shangri-la's Let The Rumors Fly aka "Flier".
Melissa has kept the original Shangri-la website as is so that anyone interested in Ilse,
or her contribution to the production of the red standard poodle, may read it as told by herself.
At some point, Melissa says she will update the Shangri-la Web Page, but has not had the heart to change it as of yet.
Joan Mistkowski of Majestic Poodles started with Shangri-la's reds in the 1980's.
Majestic kennel continued to perfect and concentrate on the Red Standard Poodle,
perfecting the Red Color, as other kennels infused other lines and other colors.
Majestic Kennel has created some of the most stunning reds in existance known today.
Joan Carol Mistkowski passed away in 2009.
Joan's daughter Sueann Brennan attempted unsuccessfully to run Majestic kennel
for a year before she too passed away November 10, 2009.
All Majestic's Poodles were rescued and spayed and neutered.
In 2010 there are only around 9 breeders in the WORLD, producing the deep dark Red Standard Poodle puppies.
Those breeder's dogs go back to Majestic Standard Poodles and of course Shangri-la and Palmares.
Deep, Dark Red that holds it's colour is VERY VERY rare to find and especially to produce.
Although there is a great many breeders producing dark apricot, light red or even on ocassion, medium red.
Red Breeders know that a red pedigree must contain Majestic red standard poodles or have Shangri-la and Palmares
to give the red Standard Poodle, prepotency, longevity and intensity of the deep dark red gene.
As a result red breeders have strived to acquire Majestic bred dogs, or to find and breed, red standard poodles
that have Majestic, Palmares or Shangri-la within a 5 generations of their Poodle's pedigrees.
However finding Majestic, Shangri-la and Palmares bred standard Poodles with solid red lines is near impossible,
as a lot of show breeders, have infused black or apricot to improve show type and size,
along the way loosing the deep dark red colour gene.
Because very few breeders have concentrated on perfecting and maintaining the Deep Dark Red gene,
dark red standard poodles will usually have a 10 generation COI of 6% or greater.
There just is not enough "real" Red Standard Poodles out there to have great diversity yet.
If you find what appears to be a dark red standard poodle and it has less than 6% COI, chances are it will fade out
to appear white or cream with reddish ears or a very light red colour by 1 year of age.
In 2009 there is a small group of educated Red Breeders who are maintaining Conformation, Health and Temperament
and who are focused on keeping and producing the deep dark red colour, to increase the red gene pool and quality of reds.
These dedicated Red Breeders are completing all of their OFA Health Testing, DNA testing
and some are also accomplishing Conformation, Obedience and Field ~Titles~ on their reds in AKC, CKC and UKC.
Hopefully the vision and goals, of what Shangri-la, Palmares and of course Majestic kennels,
all worked so hard to achieve, will continue and even be improved upon.