Standard Poodle – Best of Breed
well Thank You Linda for letting us drop
in and meet you and ebony we can see
from the cabinet behind you you’ve quite
practiced with a pair of scissors you
had a great success grooming yes we
exactly I’ve been very lucky now in the
UK that standard and both the miniature
and toy poodles are both registered in
the utility room but actually they
wouldn’t be out of place in a gundog
group no they originally thought of as
being a German water dog and they have
been known to do done dog work and been
quite successful at it and even out I
have had a couple of clients that have
used them as gun dogs and the trim some
people thinks they look a little bit
silly perhaps when they’re in a full
continental children it really came from
when they were hunting dogs and any old
pictures of a poodle or poodle type dog
they were in a trim not too different
from this the main hair was to keep the
Viking organs warm when they were
working and then we going back down to
the back end here the plaque covering
the top part of the body here was to
keep the kidneys wore they’ve got the
new joint there was a band around here
to keep that wet warm and then round the
ankles and to keep the ankle joints warm
the coat is a wool so you don’t actually
molt when you brush them you may get
bitten in the brush but with regards the
coat there has been some recent changes
regarding their presentation in the show
ring can you tell us a bit about that
yes ridging we had to show them in the
traditional show trim which was this
trim which is the continental or the
English saddle or puppy pants but now
it’s been relaxed that we can now show
in any trim and so that suggests you can
still show a corded poodle yes you can
yeah what exactly does it take to get a
corded that’s quite interesting because
you actually do a called a poodle here
and basically it calls are formed
naturally and it’s a case of just
keeping and divided and separated and
creating the cords and there’s the dog
gets older they’ve become heavier and
thicker and as we’re talking about
showing dogs as a breed they’ve had just
a bit more success than the
any other Crufts alone best-in-show
there have been four different standard
poodle winners what is it about a
standard poodle that makes them such
good sure dogs a very elegant dogs
they’re very showy they’re very
confident they’re very happy the show
ring is their place really they’re very
clever dogs very meaningful as well and
you often find us a poodle doing a lot
of the other canine disciplines that are
out there such as obedient flyball
agility when a puppy Ryan is looking for
a standard poodle is the run of thing in
particular they should be looking for it
busy don’t yes
make sure both parents been health
tested generally if you go to a show
home they’re bred to improve
conformation and improve everything
about the breed and if that’s the case
they’re breeding you know quality sound
dog hopefully and again things like
doodles can you advise anyone on do’s
and don’ts with regards doodles that’s a
good one
and I don’t think people actually
realize what they’re taking on when they
take on the doodles because if you say
to them would you go and buy a poodle
GNU their answer is no because then you
ask them why because there’s a lot of
work in them and actually there’s
exactly the same amount of work in the
doodle and people do not realize that
because they’re often told they don’t
need grooming they come in here at four
months old and you break the news to
them that they have we have to see them
every four to six weeks
they are quite shocked and what about
maintenance of a standard poodle there’s
clearly a lot of it goes into it you
wouldn’t necessarily keep them like this
for as a pet I mean if the fact is it’s
just so much work and so much time and
effort needs to go into it if you buy
and probably I would say that you’d need
to visit a groomer around about every
six weeks but I mean as a normal pet
room for the brush film every week or so
at home and that gets them through but
anything like this this is daily
grooming this is not you know once a
week job and we’ve seen evany here she’s
up and down like a jack-in-the-box
exercise what’s the requirement yeah
they do need quite a bit of exercise
they are a breed which if they think
like her if it’s raining she’s loathe to
go out in it
but on a bright sunny day yes she’s out
there running around and getting
absolutely filthy you know they they
will take as much exercise did you give
them but they you know are not it’s
stir-crazy when you leave them and they
can’t get out for the day and what about
likes with children are they a great
family really really good as long as it
the children respect the dog you did all
but respect them that’s that’s vitally
important you know they’re quite
bouncing quite mad around house the dogs
but when the children’s often you know
learn to walk you they are so careful
around them it’s quite amazing to watch
there’s normally just thing roll to
anything is in his way
