Your Canine Sports Home in the Country :: The Poodle Farm

Here at the Poodle Farm, we are committed to the idea of performance and versatility. All canine sports are welcome here, with a fully fenced and gated agility ring outdoors or inside our heated training building. All breeds are welcome, it isn't an exclusive club for poodles!

Please join in our support for Agility, Rally, Scent Detection and Obedience activities including training from introduction to advanced skills and special events. We remain a facility open to clubs wishing a dedicated venue for registered competition with CKC and CARO affiliations.

2026 marks a change for us as we focus on our events, facility and services. It marks an end to almost 2 decades of providing locally-manufactured equipment and training tools for a wide variety of canine sport and therapeutic activities. Thank you to all our customers for the support they have shown over the years, it has helped immensely in the development of The Poodle Farm.

Everyone is home safely. I didn't get quite as much done as I hoped, Mother Nature wasn't being particularly cooperative. The verandah project sure isn't moving along at a brisk pace, some ideas have come up and I just might think twice before having to do twice. Pictures from the past have surfaced, and it would be interesting to incorporate some heritage elements and undo what the 70s might have changed. And ChatGPT wants a lot of detail site information before even laying out some broad strokes. And it is going to cost more to go back, and that means some creative financing.

The roller-coaster weather hasn't been thrilling. I have finally got the vegetable garden dug and the weeds pulled out. Ready for this years crop of kale and squash to get started in a few weeks, no rush for the autumn harvest crop. My grand asparagus experiment is showing good progress, we might have a decent crop when the plants mature enough for a harvest …in 2028.

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The race for space is on, and it isn't happening exactly the way you might expect. Certainly the US NASA missions to the Moon and eventually Mars are certainly sucking up a lot of oxygen from the room. Rockets are fuelled by oxygen, so that is to be expected. Two things come to my mind that don't get picked up by others.

The financial markets are being driven by the growth in AI, quantum computing and aerospace. Broad media coverage, wide moat, high risk, high valuation, growth at any price, populist picks. Not surprising given the current US administration I can't help but say. SpaceX is going public, and the sudden surge in valuations for anything related to space is driving up portfolio values and raking in the cash from other "boring" stuff. Just be aware that just as the Blue Origin rocket explosion was dramatic and a total loss, so too can your investment. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results, losses are not insured.

The other thing is a peculiarity of the current US administration, the need to dispel conspiracy theories. Releasing the JFK files, the Epstein files, UFO files. Artemis is going to the Moon with the unspoken mission to find actual evidence of the Apollo mission landings to prove to the conspiracy theorists that the whole 60s Moon Shot thing wasn't a hoax just to make JFK look like a saint. And then off to Mars to look for canals and Little Green Men. Not orange ones.

Our second CARO Rally trial is in the books for 2026. Another actually nice, though still long, day. We are again happy to be able to help prospective new CARO Judges meet their shadow judging and mentoring requirements, extending our pool of talent with certification for all levels of judging. Results (unofficial) in PDF format for the Regular Classes and Working Classes are now available. Check in your CARO portal for your own official results and report any discrepancies.

Poodle Poetry & Pynky

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