HealthPosted by Herdis Daugbjerg Jun 12, 2008 21:39:22This is information about the miniature HD status in Denmark. The situation at the moment is quite disturbing, so I think that it would be fair to inform you about the situation in case you think about using a Danish dog.
It is not a tradition to have miniatures HD tested in Denmark. In fact very few miniature breeders do test their dogs. Within the last two years only 5 minis have had a status registered in the Danish Kennel Club. Two of these dogs have been registered within the last couple of months with the status D and E.
The one with D-status is a male. He is sire of 13 litters (44 puppies) in Denmark alone. His sire is sire of 20 litters (85 puppies) in Denmark and his dam is dam of 5 litters (20 puppies).
The one with E-status is a female. She does not have any offspring herself. Her sire is a Finnish owned dog with 8 litters (27 puppies) in Denmark and her dam is dam of 5 litters (34 puppies).
For your information dogs with D or E status cannot have their offspring registered in the Danish Kennel Club = they are excluded from breeding.
SO: Be very careful if you plan to use a Danish miniature. As you can see these two cases of HD involves many dogs which means that they constitute a large part of the Danish miniatures.
Please go and check the Danish Kennel Club Dogweb (www.hundeweb.dk) – here you can find all registered health information on all Danish dogs.
This and ThatPosted by gr8grmr Feb 13, 2008 06:08:33I was not sure where to put this. I am a groomer that wold like to compete with the Scandinavian Trim. I am getting many different reviews of this trim from harsh angles to flowing smooth rounded lines. There seem to be many varieties of this style. How do I know what is correct? Can anyone recommend a good site with pictures? Is there instruction? Thanks for your help.
BreedersPosted by Herdis Daugbjerg Jan 19, 2008 09:43:48
Check out this article about the new FCI standard written by Stephen Wheeler in the current issue of the Scandinavian Poodle Magazine
From the WebmasterPosted by Herdis Daugbjerg Dec 31, 2007 16:56:20It is with regret that I must ban a group of individuals from Poodles in Scandinavia. The reason for the ban is the defamation and slander, both verbally and in writing of others, myself included, in the Danish Poodle world, and possibly also abroad. As an example, these individuals refer to the two largest Danish Poodle breeders, myself included, as unethical idiots. These individuals avail themselves of services – such as this website - and in return they spread the most infamous lies about us in every public venue at their disposal. They are absolutely without shame. The concepts of honesty, integrity and goodwill are completely foreign to these individuals. If this concerned only myself, I would ignore it, and simply have removed from the site. However, as the slander and derogatory comments are directed towards highly esteemed and internationally renowned breeders, I feel it necessary to inform you of this. Poodles in Scandinavia is a site for serious Poodle lovers, not for individuals who have nothing better to do than to malign others in order to promote themselves. Poodles in Scandinavia is not a site that will tolerate and/or condone such behavior and lack of ethics. For this reason, dogs bred and owned by these individuals will no longer be found on this site. ALL material pertaining to these individuals has been removed from this site.
Herdis Daugbjerg
This and ThatPosted by Herdis Daugbjerg Dec 29, 2007 20:43:39
Happy New Year to everyone.
Remember next year will be a fantastic show year in Sweden:
The Swedish Poodlenational 2008
and
The World Dog Show 2008
ALL IN ONE WEEK!!!!!!!
Hugs
Herdis
ShowPosted by Herdis Daugbjerg Oct 10, 2007 11:06:46The FCI has finally recogniced the puppy trim. You can see the appendix to the standard in this PDF-document:
Best wishes
Herdis
BreedersPosted by Herdis Daugbjerg Jul 25, 2007 21:01:06You are absolutely right, Allan and let´s slip out a few more cats amongst the pidgeons.
In our opinion we have severe problems in the poodle breeding and breeders, exhibitors and judges are to blame.
The mixing of colours:
We am not very fond of this mixing and we would both cry our eyes out if an apricot suddenly appeared in a litter from our blacks. We simply would not know what to do with it. The way we see it, using it in breeding would destroy both blacks and apricots. Having a male who is able to produce black, white, brown and apricot is not our ideal of a “breed-improving” studdog.
As another Danish breeder said today: "Ebba Aalegaard would turn in her grave, if she saw what we are doing today" - Ebba Aalegaard was the Grand Old Lady of the Danish Poodle World and she was a genious when it came to colour breeding.
The “What-You-See-Is-NOT-What-You-Get” thing:
By that we mean the way that some exhibitors nowadays are trying to improve their chances in the show-ring by “changing” the colour of their dogs (many different ways to do so), doping to turn a dog with a bad temperament into a show-dog, surgery like straighten the tails. These people do anything to win but dye, dope and scalpels are not hereditary, and who looses: Not only the competitors and the puppy-buyers (who believe that they get as beautiful a dog as they have seen in the parents) but the whole BREED is suffering from this.
The judges are to blame because they reward colours that are obviously not correct:
A silver who – at the age of three – still has black hair in his top knot. The silver colour must even when the dog gets older.
An apricot who is everything from cream to dark apricot. Apricots with black noses.
Now we have the new red colour and we wonder: What are we going to do about that? Who can decide what is dark apricot and what is red? And a 4-5 years red who has lightened? Can this still be red? We have heard that the German Poodle Clubs want blood test to determine the red colour, but as far as we know this is still not possible.
A brown who is dark, dark without any white hairs at the age of 3 even though they should know that this is impossible in a brown……………and strangely enough all the browns from the same owners tend to have the same even colour no matter how old they are.
Jet black dogs even when the dogs are 7 – why can´t the judges see that, when the people around the ring all see it? Why are they so impressed when seing something SO wrong? When do the judges learn that colour changes with age. No dog and no human being keep the hair colour from their youth. Humans are allowed to change their own hair colour, but poodles breeders, exhibitors AND judges have a responsibility for the breed and we are not doing the breed any favour by using and rewarding all sorts of tricks made to win.
We hope to keep this discussion open – it is important!
Birthe Warming – Warming Poodles, Denmark
Herdis Daugbjerg – Misch´Amies Poodles, Denmark
BreedersPosted by David Allan Jul 20, 2007 17:59:24Hi all, I would like to throw the cat amonst the pidgeons and ask breeders to clear up a doupt that I have as it is killing me. After many years breeding and showing and listening to one and all I would like to ask for public opinion regards
Colour. Now, we see: Reds,Apricots,Whites,Browns and Silvers of
ALL different shades, some really far too light, and many of theses dogs sporting a
Very Light and not really
Correct colour (patchy,dark hairs intermingled with black sooty hairs etc) and are are Champions, NOW, the
BIG bang !!
WHY is it that breeders and judges alike are so so hard on the blacks when they start to loose their super
coal black colour (which very few have anyway)??? Really, it is not fair when if one comes across a super dog, many will place it
lower on the pretext that the colour is
not so good, and on the other hand we see bad
OTHER colours get placed and awarded TOP honours CC's and also their titles ??!!!! So,
What is the problem with a not so good Black as compared to a wishy washy Apricot or Brown ?? Just out of curiosity thats all !!!! Will be nice to hear others opinion on this one. Thanks, Regards, David.... cheers
