I am starting this thread for everyone to do a little venting and learning about poodles and their image.
Ok I do have a beef and that is with some little known history that is looked over by Kennel orgs. Many years ago while doing research on harliquin poodle I came across at that time a not well known fact. That fact is that parti and harliquins were the first poodle colors. The solids were bred off of them and then the parti came out of fashion. The FCI only allows solids to be shown so all the other kennels orgs like AKc and CKC adopted that rule. But in their home country German that is not the case as these are more well known there. So all you people that have all those no solid colors more power to you. BTW parti and harliquins are not the same as harliquin have a specific color pattern the must follow part of it tip of tail must be white then black and the face must have the mask, I think the face is right. This pattern is not well known in the US so you should look up German sites on it.
Ok second vent. Why in the world did the AKC put the standard in the NON sporting group. This makes no sense whats so ever as this is a well known retiever in its country. Now having the toy in the toy group makes sense and the mini in the non sporting group (even though I have seen some working) but the standard should be in the retireving group. Here where I live there are some owners that have poodles doing this work for duck hunting and passing tests. I know you all will agree with me on this but why has the poodle club done nothing to change that status. It would only help the breed image. This is comming from someone who also used to look down on poodles as foofoo dogs. That was till I learn there real history and saw them in action.
So lets hear your vent and discoveries since you have had your poodle or while looking for one.
Ok I do have a beef and that is with some little known history that is looked over by Kennel orgs. Many years ago while doing research on harliquin poodle I came across at that time a not well known fact. That fact is that parti and harliquins were the first poodle colors. The solids were bred off of them and then the parti came out of fashion. The FCI only allows solids to be shown so all the other kennels orgs like AKc and CKC adopted that rule. But in their home country German that is not the case as these are more well known there. So all you people that have all those no solid colors more power to you. BTW parti and harliquins are not the same as harliquin have a specific color pattern the must follow part of it tip of tail must be white then black and the face must have the mask, I think the face is right. This pattern is not well known in the US so you should look up German sites on it.
Ok second vent. Why in the world did the AKC put the standard in the NON sporting group. This makes no sense whats so ever as this is a well known retiever in its country. Now having the toy in the toy group makes sense and the mini in the non sporting group (even though I have seen some working) but the standard should be in the retireving group. Here where I live there are some owners that have poodles doing this work for duck hunting and passing tests. I know you all will agree with me on this but why has the poodle club done nothing to change that status. It would only help the breed image. This is comming from someone who also used to look down on poodles as foofoo dogs. That was till I learn there real history and saw them in action.
So lets hear your vent and discoveries since you have had your poodle or while looking for one.