[outwest]

Meet Chili! He is my dog Bonnie's cousin. My SIL and BIL loved Bonnie so much they decided they needed a poodle, too, but Bonnie was a bit big for them. He is 4 months old now and is a Moyen poodle (top out at 17-19 inches). He is a real sweety and looks like Bonnie's mini-me.
Check out those toe nails! His black toenails are the first thing I noticed when they brought him home.

 

[tokipoke]

Here's some snapshots of Leroy growing up. Last photo is the most recent, however I just shaved his beard into a french mustache (gotta get those pics up soon).

 

[minipoodlelover]

outwest, Chili and Bonnie are tres jolie. I love apricots that soften to the color of a melty creamsicle. So many glorious poodles on this thread and I've never seen a sable baby before. What a treat

 

[Anntig]

Ok don't have any nice adult photo's of Lula and she's not really mine but she's so cute so I'm putting her in anyway lol.

 

[Countryboy]

This is like one of those "How Many Puppies Can You Count?" things. I see at least nine.

So what do u call them, eh? Apricot?? . . maybe. Red?? . . that's a possibility too. 'Kinda cute' is a fairly safe label tho.

 

[tokipoke]

Countryboy, that cat looks just like our neighborhood cat. He hangs around our house for treats. He is really calm. Leroy always runs over to him at full speed and the cat doesn't run. I'm surprised the momma poodle is letting the cat hang out with them!

 

[liljaker]

I am always amazed at the different responses dogs have to cats. Sunny could care less -- the breeder says the dogs live with cats, too, and she has one particular older cat that lets the little poodles crawl all over her, etc., and it is Cat Socialization 101! If I wasn't so allergic to them (on a 1 to 10, I am a 20!) it could be nice company for Sunny. I love all the poodle "colors".......... now that I have a scanner, I may dig up some of the early pup pics of Jake who was black, but who came from a black and brown parents, and kept his color a deep black brown.

 

[Countryboy]

I've seen this cat wiggle it's way out from under a Puppy Pile-On too. lol It's the prime socializer of any little ones in this pen . . and outside in the yard. There's a good chance that the dam got used to Gizmo when she was pup herself.

It wouldn't surprise me that most breeders have a cat around the house. It's great socialization for any pups.

 

[PoodleMomAnew]

Fun idea, Rowan! Here's my pup Bonnie. She is registered cream, but is more a light apricot. She's getting darker as her coat starts to change (first pic is when she was 6 months, last at just turned 9 months). Not a full apricot, but people who see her call her apricot:

Cream, apricot, no matter, she is stunning!!

 

[outwest]

aaaah, thank you. I think she is a delicious color even as an inbetween shade. She was an odd paper bag color when I brought her home, which is why I thnk she hadn't been chosen yet. I chose her for her personality. When she started to change color at about 4/5 months old and started to get so pretty, I was confused! I feel like I totally lucked out.

This is the color she was when I got her:

This is her color today:

Pretty dramatic change to me. The breeder was surprised, too. Then she mentioned the apricot line a couple of generations back.

 

[Countryboy]

Cream, apricot, no matter, she is stunning!!

Yeah . . . me too! Tho I've got two solids I'm a sucker for the two-tones. And I like the Peach/Apricot blend.

 

[outwest]

This is like one of those "How Many Puppies Can You Count?" things. I see at least nine.

So what do u call them, eh? Apricot?? . . maybe. Red?? . . that's a possibility too. 'Kinda cute' is a fairly safe label tho.

Those look red to me and more than a little cute. :act-up:

 

[LEUllman]

Beau the Magic (cream) Poodle

Here's our sweet, oversized mini boy, Beau. He's registered as a "cream," though anyone who isn't poodle savvy would surely consider him "white."

When we brought him home as a 6-month-old, he still had a lot of apricot in his ears, on his legs, and down his back. By a little over 1 year, all of the color disappeared except on the back side of his ear fringes, which you can't really see.

As a puppy:

At 6 months:

As a One Year Old:

As a Two Year Old (last July):

 

[tokipoke]

Beau is such a cutie!!! Love his hair!

 

[outwest]

That is one pretty little guy, I just love Beau. I think whites often start out a touch cream. It is hard to know their true color until they are grown. He is certainly white now. You could double dip and put him in the white thread, too. More exposure, you know. His puppy picture just melts a heart.

He looks perfect. Many miniatures are taller than 15 inches. Keeping them under that must be tough to do. He can't be more than an inch taller than 15 inches. How tall is he?

 

[LEUllman]

That is one pretty little guy, I just love Beau. I think whites often start out a touch cream. It is hard to know their true color until they are grown. He is certainly white now. You could double dip and put him in the white thread, too. More exposure, you know. His puppy picture just melts a heart.

He looks perfect. Many miniatures are taller than 15 inches. Keeping them under that must be tough to do. He can't be more than an inch taller than 15 inches. How tall is he?

Thanks for the kind words. We think Beau's a beautiful soul inside and out. He's just above 16" tall, which has turned out to be a really great size. We got so lucky with our first-ever dog!

Beau is certainly white enough for me, espcially in the sun. Is there some specific trait (other than just eyeballing the hair color) that qualifies a poodle as a true "white" vs. cream?

 

[CharismaticMillie]

Is there some specific trait (other than just eyeballing the hair color) that qualifies a poodle as a true "white" vs. cream?

Well, I am new to whites, but some say that a cream will have a like along its back if you look closely. Others, more traditional, say that the dog cannot be white if there is black in its background.

I am sure there are many other ways to identify a white vs. cream!

 

[patalina]

When I first got Louis, my poodle mix puppy, he was a golden/apricot color and the rescue told me that when they first got him he was a striking dark red (like a red golden retriever). These are some pics of my guy and a shot of his back, which is starting to darken from an apricot/blonde to a darker red/orange color lol.

 

[outwest]

My poodle pup is darkening, too, more on the back than the sides. It must be the poodle in yours doing that? He is a very pretty color.

 

[outwest]

Well, I am new to whites, but some say that a cream will have a like along its back if you look closely. Others, more traditional, say that the dog cannot be white if there is black in its background.

I am sure there are many other ways to identify a white vs. cream!

Interesting about the line. My very obvious dark cream didn't have a line when she was a puppy. Because her face was creamy white, we assumed she would change to that color, but she didn't:

Her coat change is starting. She does have a faint line down her back now that catches the light that is adult type hair. It is coming in darker than her sides, but she is almost not cream anymore, so go figure. It is an orangey-champagne color (I suppose some variation of cream).

Maybe an ice white doesn't have any black behind them, but I would guess that most whites do have blacks because it is very common to breed and black to a white. You rarely see ice white now. Was your white boy from only whites? He is sparkley white in his pictures.