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.

October is on the doorstep, and Autumn is begun both meteorologically and astronomically. We haven't had a frost yet but some mornings you can see your breathe. First CKC scent detection trial is in the books, a beautiful warm sunny day which makes the day go a whole lot nicer even if you don't get all the Titles that you had hoped to achieve. Oh well, there is another trial in a few of weeks.

We have our schedule for CKC events in 2026 all finalized and approved. One more Scent Detection event in October, and the CKC Obedience and Rally weekend starts October 31 with the BDKOC taking the reins this year. Check out the Events Calendar for more details.

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Weekly Classes Roxane's Canine Health Clinic CARO Events CKC Events

More fun with an AI Assistant, things that I am coming to understand as I use it more.

There are things you know you know, and your AI Assistant will be more than happy to reinforce that even if you are wrong.

There are things you know that you don't know and sometimes the AI Assistant doesn't know either but it will pretend to know as long as you will play the game to spend many hours chasing things down as it tries very hard to have you find an answer to a question that doesn't have one.

There are things you didn't know that you know, and when your AI Assistant helps you reveal the answer you already knew it will not correct you if you give it credit for finding the answer.

There are things that you don't know that you don't know and your AI Assistant will not know that you don't know and will go ahead leading you to an answer for a question that you don't even know to ask.

If the AI assistant can answer a 20 word question with a 2000 word response it will do so. If you skip the answer as TLDR and ask a follow-up question or clarify something that does not excuse you from taking some time to go back and actually read the flood of verbiage. Sometimes you didn't ask the right question and you are heading down a badger hole when what you wanted was a rabbit.

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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