Cedar Valley Hunting Poodles

07/06/2025

“Pupdate” from Jed!

Jed loved the 4th of July!! Hope y’all are having a great weekend!!

07/04/2025

Happy Fourth of July!!! God Bless this great country we are so fourtunate live in!

07/03/2025

Loki is pretty certain that Elena should share her doughnut! After all poodles need special treats too!

07/02/2025

Our newest dog trainer in training! Elena got to spend a couple days with us and helped Papa train dogs! Zena did absolutely perfect for her and actually listened to a 3 year old!

06/25/2025

Pupdate in Rhett (was named Reed) - Enjoying summer fun and swimming!

06/21/2025

Ilsa also got a shorter groom this week before the heatwave came in! This way Mark can’t call her a potato any more! She was all puppy fluff, now looking more like a proper poodle!

06/20/2025

Another neat tidbit of history!

The battlefield was still… the air thick with smoke… and silence louder than any scream.
And through that silence came a Poodle—strong, steady, wearing a satchel marked with a red cross.
Inside: bandages, painkillers, water… and something deeper—compassion. 💔🐾

He wasn’t there to fight.
He wasn’t trained to harm.
His mission? To heal.

Through the shell-torn ground of No Man’s Land, he searched for the fallen—
sometimes bringing life-saving aid,
sometimes offering only presence and peace in those final, forgotten moments.

He didn’t ask for recognition.
He didn’t wait for praise.
He simply stayed—beside the wounded, beside the dying.
Until help arrived… or didn’t.

They say war is full of heroes in uniform.
But what about the ones without ranks?
What about those who brought silence, not gunfire?
Comfort, not commands?

This Poodle… he was their last light.
Their final warmth.
A silent soldier of mercy—walking into hell, not to fight, but to care. 🕊️🐕‍🦺

Not all heroes wore boots.
Some padded quietly across blood-soaked earth,
carrying hope on four legs. ❤️‍🔥🩹

06/19/2025

“Pupdate” on Arie (was Clover)

Arie learning her river skills. She's doing awesome,must have swam the river a dozen times just to see if she could!

06/19/2025

Have your own dog? Hunting memberships available! Give us a call for more info! 402-439-5400

06/19/2025

Is your dog ready for hunting season? Now is the time to get them in for training so we can have them ready for you! Give us a call! 402-439-5400

06/19/2025

Ilsa - a little soggy after venturing into the pond!

06/18/2025

Standard Poodles are among the oldest forms of retriever, and of the three size varieties in Poodles, it's likely the oldest because of its purpose as a duck retriever (something the breed is still capable of doing today). The Poodle was developed in Germany, not France (though France may have "popularized" the breed as we know it today), and the first written mention of the Poodle as a breed appeared in northern Germany and western Russia. The name, "Poodle," in fact, comes from the Low German word "Pudeln," meaning "to splash," a word that dates back to 1524 when the German writer, Gesner, described a dog called a "Pudel" as a waterfowl retriever. In Belgium and Holland, the breed was known as a "Poedel" and used for the same purpose.

Dr. Fitzinger, an early authority on the breed in Germany, listed six varieties of Poodles in his area at the time: The Gros Pudel, Mittlere Pudel, Kleine Pudel, Kleine Pinsch, Schnur Pudel and Schaf Pudel. The word "Schaf" means "curly, and the word "Schnur" means, "corded" (and yes, we'll discuss corded Poodles later), but the Gros Pudel was probably the equivalent of today's Standard Poodle.

The Kennel Club Stud Book of England shows its first registry of Poodles in 1874, and in 1876, the Poodle Club of England was formed. The first Poodle registered with the AKC was in 1886, a black Standard Poodle named "Czar," with full recognition coming in 1887. Poodles had been exhibited several years before that (the first record was of a show in Boston in 1878 with an entry of eight Poodles), but it wasn't until 1896 that the Poodle Club of America was formed.

Poodle "Parlor" from 1946 by Morgan Dennis