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  • The Work of Remembering.

    Life is not what I once thought it was. It is stranger, harder, more beautiful, and far more purposeful than I could ever have imagined. The older I get, the more I realize how much of life is spent unlearning what we were taught to accept without question, peeling away assumptions, looking beyond what is…

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  • Where is the breeder ?

    I read this post and while everyone else was probably already thinking about slicker brushes and dryers and shampoos and scissors and puzzles and lick mats and all the other things that people believe a ten week old poodle puppy needs, me, I kept looking at the words “frantically trying” and thinking about something entirely…

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  • WHERE IS THE BREEDER?

    I wonder how many people will read this post and notice what immediately caught my attention, because I have a feeling that most readers will do exactly what we have all been conditioned to do. They will begin answering the question. They will recommend the best slicker brush, their favorite dryer, a shampoo they swear…

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  • LOVE CHANGES WHAT WE CALL WORK

    Every now and then someone tells me, “Well, that is easy for you.” I usually laugh a little when I hear that because there is almost nothing about the way I live that happened easily. People see the dogs running across ten acres, the puppies eating raw food, the garden, the freezers, the articles, the…

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  • Cultivating What Has Been Entrusted to Me 

    The older I become, the more I realize that my greatest influence has never come from competing with others. It has come from cultivating life. Whether I am raising a litter of puppies, teaching a piano student, encouraging someone at church, writing an article, or opening my home to those around me, I find myself…

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  • Looking for a poodle puppy ?

    ⚠️ WARNING: You probably shouldn’t buy one of my Poodles. That may sound like an unusual thing for a breeder to say, especially when I have a puppy available, but experience has taught me that finding homes is the easy part. Finding the right homes is something entirely different. If your goal is simply to…

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  • LET’S MAKE GOOD DOGS IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS

    BUILD YOUR OWN ROADSIDE STAND Over the past few weeks I’ve found myself thinking about something that seems almost backwards. We live in a time when more knowledge is available than at any other point in history, yet the families searching for trustworthy information often struggle to find the very people who have spent years,…

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  • LONG BEFORE A PUPPY IS BORN

    People often ask what makes my puppies different. I don’t believe the answer begins with a puppy. I believe it begins with the person raising it. The honest answer is that it is thousands of decisions made long before a puppy ever opens its eyes. A puppy is never where my work begins. By the…

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  • MEET DANUBE’S KARMEN HABANERA “MERLOT JR.”

    Sometimes the puppies you imagine standing in the center of the ring end up teaching you something entirely different. This is Danube’s Karmen Habanera, better known as Merlot Jr. If you’ve followed my breeding program for very long, you’ve probably noticed that our registered names often borrow from operas, symphonies, and the world of classical…

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  • LET’S MAKE GOOD DOGS IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS

    Yesterday I wrote about the problem. Today I’d like to propose a solution. Because if good breeders are difficult to find, perhaps the answer isn’t waiting for families to somehow find us. Perhaps it’s time for all of us to put a stand by the road. On farms, the best produce is often discovered at…

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