Meet one of our clients visiting puppies two weeks before taking hers home to become the best friend and understudy of her Romagnolo morel mushroom hunter. Since poodles have an ancestry of truffle hunting, it makes good sense for one to be trained to find the morel delicacy.
~ Amanda R. & Fig
Finnesse Aurora Borealis
CGN TT HIC SX DSA, Versatility Novice *pending
Murphy got her next title, Dock Senior Advanced, and a new personal best of an incredible 19 feet, 6 inches. Thanks to owner, Stephanie Jackson, for these amazing photos! With her season average of 18 feet, she's currently tied for the 10th best standard poodle in NADDs.
Specializing in brown poodles from unique bloodline established for diversity
Meet Kai
He is a very social guy who loves hanging out with his friends at dog camp and going for wilderness pack walks in the forests of
British Columbia.
He is sired by our Czech Import
Ch Alwaro Brown Bajgastop.
Kai has never met a stranger!
Meet Bucky!
He lives in Toronto and is the best pal of his two human brother's Jonathan and Noah. He is living his best life.
He was the only singleton we've ever had so we're extremely glad to know he has human siblings now.
Meet Gnocchi
"Finnesse Magic Moment"
Sired by Athos Zu Feenhof (Germany)
Out of Ch. Finnesse Pretty In Pink (Pippa)
This handsome boy is a owned by Award-Winning Master Groomer Alex Calenda. He posses an outgoing personality and has a dense high-quality brown coat.
The 7 Chakras Litter born July 31st, 2023 share the same sire!
Meet Uncle Charlie!
He is a typical Finnesse Poodle, sired by our Czech Import, Ch. Alwaro Brown Bajgastop. He is a very solid boy with excellent coat and color and has an endearing comical personality.
Charlie is a full sibling to Pippa, our first generation intervariety girl who is behind all of our current dogs.
He is owned and loved by Maryam & Navid
Here's Roxane!
She is a fearless rapids shooting poodle with incredible joie de vivre!
Once in a blue moon we venture to a black stud dog who carries the brown gene and that's how Roxane was made.
We don't know when we will have black puppies again.
Thanks John! For spending your retirement with this lovely girl.
"Our Clients . . .
. . . are at the heart of Finnesse Poodles breeding program. The beginning was tough as we strived to produce Champions and adhered to breeding practices that were considered the norm at the time. We know what it's like to be a client with expectations to get a beautiful well-bred, healthy, happy puppy from a reputable breeder. Unfortunately, Victorian Era status quo breeding practices rely on a closed stud book. That means the gene pool cannot expand. In theory, any purebred is susceptible to inbreeding and linebreeding to one degree or another. The standard poodle in particular went through a period where popular sires were used to such a extent that a mid-century bottleneck caused some autoimmune diseases to be fixed in the breed. Science tells us that genetic diversity is healthy and necessary for a population to survive. Royal families such as the Hapsburgs died out because of the practice of inbreeding and linebreeding to siblings and close cousins to preserve their families position in society. This is why we do not call ourselves preservation breeders. We are RESTORATION BREEDERS. Using genetic diversity results from University of California Davis and the BetterBred tool, extensive health testing, and Intervariety(IV) breeding we are striving with every litter to produce dogs with seriously higher genetic diversity than the average Standard Poodle. This is also how we have been able to produce MOYEN poodles from time to time. In our opinion, preservation breeding is fundamentally flawed and a restorative approach is the only way out of the predicament faced in many purebred dogs today. Since the POODLE is one breed, we are able to combine miniature pedigrees with standard pedigrees for diversity. It is very interesting to note that stud books that were once "closed" are being opened in some countries, such as Norway, in order to bring structural health back into some breeds. AKC is considering a proposal from a purebred club to allow stud books to reopen for a specific breed.
For the sake of the breed and those who love poodles we feel our breeding practices go above and beyond by injecting a serious dose of diversity into the few litters we are able to produce. We hope our clients will appreciate the outcomes." ~ L.E.Pietarinen