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.

Debby and Mel have gone to The Netherlands for the FitPaws World Agility Open Championships, at the KNHS National Equestrian Center in Ermelo with none of our poodles. So I have 10 days at home with all 6. Lots of things to get done, almost ready to open outdoor agility for the season. New fabric for the wings, proof of concept last year so investing in nicer materials going forward.

My how time flies when you are having fun. If you consider mowing grass to be "fun". Or demolishing a verandah originally constructed in the 1940's that hasn't had any renovation since the mid-1970s. Mix in the replacement of our hydro utility pole and all that goes along with a project like that and you begin to have a new understanding of what constitutes "fun" around here. Oh, and a CKC Scent Detection Sanction Match. Quiet country living far from the noise, hustle & bustle of the city they said ….

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I have started to use ChatGPT, getting a feel for how it works. The verandah replacement is more than just "replace what was there exactly the same but new" because what was there turned out to be 1950's vintage and a lot has changed in terms of materials and technique since then. So rather than spending a lot of time looking up load data and span tables I thought I would enlist some help with the technical analysis.

It has certainly become a more complex design project than I expected based on talking to people. If you ask an overly simplistic question, or the question you ask lacks enough detail, the answer you get will be confusing - or incorrect.

I will say this much, using ChatGPT will force you into a very disciplined approach to asking questions and evaluating the quality of the answer. ChatGPT will give you a 3 page answer to a 1 sentence question. ChatGPT does not always interpret inputs correctly, you have to correct and reiterate. ChatGPT will give you an answer that seems reasonable, then give you a different answer if you provide additional information. Each time you have to read all 3 pages and spot what needs to be fixed. ChatGPT does NOT have a clock, does not keep track of time. You can dive down a rabbit hole and pretty soon you are with Eddy in the Space-Time Continuum.

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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