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.

It has been a few years since I last did a major revision to the website. We have decided that after five years of gradual reducing the selection of equipment that we made, it was time to finally turn the focus entirely towards the events and activities that take place here. That has presented the opportunity to again simplify the structure of the website, and make more useful and informative content available right here on an expanded homepage. Not so much navigation needed, because there is less to navigate.

All the snow is gone. Easter is here and maybe there will be some warm weather to go with it. Karleigh Hughes was here for the February CARO trial as Photographer, and has uploaded all the photos that she took to a gallery for people to view. You can click here CARO-at-TPF to view all the pictures and download those that you like. Thanks to Karleigh for coming out and taking pictures, it is appreciated.

Welcome to the home for our consolidated events calendar.

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

I thought this year was going to be the year for a new computer. I found a decent Lenovo lease return that wasn't ancient, had Windows 11 preloaded, somewhat future-proofed and what I thought was a pretty good price point. I was even going to try and setup a dual-boot with a Linux Distro for additional future-proofing.

I was wrong. After weeks trying to sort through the missing hardware, poorly installed Windows OS, crashes, bug reports, hardware conflicts and assorted other red flags I decided to return it to the Amazon Seller. Before doing that, I thought it wise to do a complete reset as recommended by Microsoft when you decide to sell or dispose of your computer. On restart it asked for a new User account - and it REQUIRED that I do that while connected to the Internet and use my Microsoft Account credentials so that it could sync with the Cloud. Not what I wanted. Bless the Internet I found a way using Terminal (Administrator) commands to bypass that little hurdle sans personal info and finished up, boxed it and returned. End of that adventure, no more Windows 11 for me please.

After careful reconsideration I took an old Toshiba laptop with a big HDD, garbage batteries and despised Windows 8.1 and partitioned off a chunk to dual boot with shiny new Linux Mint Cinnamon. So now I have the best of both worlds,

1. a full MS Office Professional Suite with a legacy perpetual license activation for offline projects and trial management and,

2. a modern, secure and supported Linux distribution with a whole new world of open-source apps that is safe, secure, private and capable for on-line activities

It took a lot of time, but the cash outlay was mostly upgrading peripherals with Bluetooth wireless connectivity which is less expensive and more portable than a complete new machine. It also presented me the opportunity to learn touch typing.

Our first CARO Rally trial is in the books for 2026. It was actually quite a nice, if not especially short, day. We are happy to be able to help prospective new CARO Judges meet their shadow judging and mentoring requirements, it is always good to have people take a real interest in officiating these events. It looked like a school exam room with 3 tables setup complete with clipboards & scoresheets all in a row facing the ring. Add in a limit-full 90 runs and it came close to going 11 hours start to finish. 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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