ABOUT US

Our names are Scott and Diane. We were married in 1996 on our property in beautiful Aeneas Valley. I had just acquired my first Standard Poodle about nine months before meeting Scott. Her name was Montana because I went to Montana to get her from a woman that raised Standard Poodles in her Ranch Style Home environment. Her call name was Tana. At the time we got married Tana had her first litter of beautiful black Standard poodle pups.

Scott said if I hadn’t owned a Standard Poodle when we met, he never would have agreed on a Standard Poodle for our family dog.

Scott grew to love Tana as much as I did and Montana’s feelings were mutual. Scott was impressed with the intelligence of the Standard Poodle breed. It is said that the Standard Poodle is the second smartest breed, Border Collies being first.

In my opinion Standard Poodles should be first on the list but if Boarder Collies are your thing check out www.canaanguestranch.com. They have a variety of working Border Collies and Pugs.

Tana was never around children till she was about six months old. When my grandchildren came to stay for a visit she took right to them. She allowed them to dress her up and lay all over her. When they left she was so depressed I had to encourage her to eat with hamburger and rice.

I couldn't put one picture without the other so these next two pictures are our grandkids, at differant times laying around with Tana, our first Standard Poodle.

 Through the years of the kids coming and going she figured out they would be back so she got over being depressed when they left. However, if asked, “where are the kids?” she would get up and look out the French doors. She did the same thing with my mother that loved her as much as I did.

These Standard Poodles are very smart dogs and do well on a ranch or in town as long as they get exercise. We find Standard Poodles aim to please their owners.

Our first Standard Poodle gave us three litters. There would have been more but it was hard finding a male Standard Poodle with quality of the Standard Poodle breed that was not related to Tana. We finally had her fixed and she was a wonderful, problem free addition to our Ranch style way of life till the day we lost her.

I was so devastated we went a whole year without a dog. Finally, after loosing our Peacocks to predators during the winter, we were sitting on the deck one spring evening, complaining of the deer eating my flowers and Scott said he thought we should start looking for another Standard Poodle. That is when we got Jazz.

To continue with this story see the page on “Jazz”