Update June 13:  Ready to go - have had 1st vaccine - last weekend at base prices.  The YN1 standard litter is now finished with their testing, are doing well on their house breaking and crate training and are ready to start going to their new homes.  Their are several puppies still available so please contact us.  Their newest pictures are posted on the Standards Puppy Page.  Click on Standards in the menu, then on Standard Puppies on the next page.

The JZ1 miniature litter are now all reserved except for one black miniature male.  They are adorable and also have their newest pictures now on the miniature litter page.  Click on Miniatures in the menu, then on Miniature Litters on the next page.  The will be ready to go to new homes around the 4th of July weekend.

Update June 13th.  "Gabby" and "Eve" both earned their adult titles.  Mishelle just completed an AKC show in Puyallup, WA and is now at the International Show in St Helens, OR with my miniature Gabby and her standard Eve.  Gabby took BOB in miniatures, and a Group 1st, and BBE in show 1, BOB and BBE in show 2.  Eve took BOB in standards in show 1, and BBE.  Both took the first two legs of their adult International Champion Titles, and will hopefully finish earning their titles in tomorrows two shows.  The written critiques are great and I will have them up on the website in the next month with their new pictures.

Update May 4th, 2009.  May you all have a wonderful Spring Season.  We are now heavy into kidding this season with our Dairy Goats - with just two does left to kid.  It is a season of new birth for plant life and for animals and birds.

Mishelle was at the International Show in Eugene, OR where Sterling earned his International Veteran Champion Title and went Best Bred by and Best Bred by Veteran in three of the four shows.  Mishelle's miniature Amy also earned her International Champion Title.  We hope to have new pictures for everyone in the next week or two, and I hope to get their critiques up on their individual pages - watch for them - they are outstanding..

*******Mishelle's Jozie has dropped her temperature so should be whelping within the next 24 hours with her first litter.  Watch the miniature litter page for the latest news.

Yonnie has had her YN1 litter - surprising us early on Easter Sunday.  See the Standard Litter News page for all the latest pictures and info.  

Marlene & Mike were here with the TM1 litter (Tia x Nexus) for their temperament testing and conformation evaluations April 23rd-26th.  All the puppies are in their new homes except for one black male that is still available.    See the latest pictures on the Standard Puppies Page.

Update March 23rd,   2009  

*******News Flash!!!  Walt successfully came through his first surgery (Anterior Cervical Fusion).  He had a spur compressing the spinal cord, and now the pressure has been relieved is already walking better and having less pain radiating down his arm.  Hurray.  Next on the schedule in a few weeks is a right shoulder reconstruction.  It seems like when you hit 60 your parts just start wearing out.  We've all been fighting viral colds so are behind on some of our projects.  My apologies.  We finally got our new DSL account up Friday PM 3/20/09, so I will try to get e-mails answered and website updated as quickly as possible.  

BEGINNING 2009

FOR FRIENDSHIPS FARM 'N MORE AND HORIZONS AKC STANDARD & MINIATURE POODLES!!!

Hi Everyone

May you all have a wonderful, prosperous, peaceful, healthy, happy and blessed New Year.  I think it will be a year of many changes, hopefully for the good of all, we all really need it.  We ended 2008 by having Cassie put to her rest on New Years Eve.  The snow and cold weather just took too much of a toll on her weakening body at almost 16 years of age.  She blessed our life for so many years and is sorely missed.  All of our wonderful foundation standard poodles are now together in their special corner of heaven watching over us and waiting for us to arrive someday.

Things have changed a bit once again.  We are expecting two standard litters this Spring, as well as possibly two miniature litters.  Please check the Projected Litters Page under standards, and the Litter page under miniatures.  In standards we are expecting a black and brown litter from Tia in early Spring, and a blue/silver/apricot litter from Yonnie in Late Spring.  In  miniatures we are expecting a black/apricot litter from Jozie and possibly a black litter from Gabby - both in Late Spring.  Get your deposits in early, especially for brown/apricot or silver females.

Walt and I will be leaving for Northern California on February 23rd and can deliver puppies or adults to that area.  We are going down to help Marlene with whelping Tia's first litter.  During that time I will be closing out our current DSL connection, and a week later starting a new DSL account so we may not be able to answer e-mails for a few days at a time over the next couple of weeks, until everything is up and running smoothly.  Mishelle and Mike will be available while we are gone, with help from their nephew and our grandson.

***We are beginning the planning for the next Penn Hip Clinic at Aloha Dog & Cat Hospital in Beaverton, OR - so watch this page for the dates to get 15% off all testing.  This will probably be in the latter part of April or beginning of May 2009.  We will try to avoid local shows if at all possible.  Penn Hip can be done on pups 9 months and older, preliminary OFA is at 1 year, SA biopsies start at two years of age.  Blood draws can be done for DNA testing for PRA, JRD, etc.  All breeds are welcome.  Please contact us to make arrangements.  Clinics are usually on a Saturday, or occasionally on a Sunday.

***We have just one of Mandy's AM4 pups (and he is a delight) and three of Heidi's H2 pups born July 23rd, 2008 still available.  The pups will be 6 months old in January and have completed their temperament testing and conformation evaluations, are crate trained, kennel trained, well started on house breaking and grooming training, vaccination and worming protocol and are ready to move to their new homes.  Heidi's three puppies have also been worked on travel training, beginning obedience and started on their leash training.  Four deposits were moved to 2009-2010 litters, resulting in making these puppies available at this time.  The puppies are now featured on the Standard Started Pups page instead of the Standard Litter Page.

***OUR TWO NEWEST STANDARD LITTERS ARE NOW 15 WEEKS OLD AND ARE PROGRESSING WONDERFULLY WITH THEIR HOUSE BREAKING, GROOMING TRAINING, CRATE TRAINING AND HEALTH PROTOCOL - SO CHECK OUT THE STANDARD PUPPIES PAGE FOR NEWS AND PICTURES OF THE DY1 AND CM3 LITTERS, AS WELL AS THE MINIATURE LITTER PAGE TO SEE THE TS6 LITTER BORN NOVEMBER 2ND.     

***Due to some health issues (our own - not our poodles), stress (I just turned 65 - and haven't had any "personal" time in almost 8 yrs), both of us anticipating some surgery in early 2009, the need to get two homes condensed into one and complete the remodeling on the old farm house I have decided to eliminate our black and brown lines for the next year or two, and then re-assess.  As a result Daynee will be spayed after whelping and weaning her litter, and will be available as a pet.  Kayla is available to be placed for breeding.  Please see the individual pages on Daynee and Kayla under our Standards listing.  I will be retaining Kit for stud service, and will be continuing in our miniatures in the black and brown, but for the time being will be retaining only Sterling, Yonnie and our new addition Tiki to continue our blue & silver standard lines.  Mishelle will not be breeding any apricot miniatures until late Spring 2009, but we will be breeding Yonnie to Django for a blue, silver and apricot standard litter in Spring 2009.

***Upcoming Shows we plan to attend.     Mishelle will be at the Albany AKC Show with her miniatures Feb 14-15th and handling standards for other owners at the show.  It is at the Linn County Expo Center.  We are also beginning to plan for the International Dog Show in April 09 in Eugene.

***All of our puppy owners from the past years - we have many outdated e-mail addresses and mailing addresses as many of you have moved or changed servers.  Please contact us with your new info as we can't send you new health info on the lines your poodles are from if we don't have current information.  Also with the failure of two computers in the past two years we lost a lot of e-mail info, so please help us out.  We are dropping the viclink.com address for e-mail and the old website this year, so it is also important that you send your information to the e-mail addresses as listed on the contact page.

***PLEASE NOTE THAT GIFT CERTIFICATES ARE AVAILABLE FOR THOSE SPECIAL OCCASIONS FOR GROOMING CLASSES, POODLE GROOMING, POODLE BOARDING, POODLE PHOTOGRAPHY AND OF COURSE FOR POODLE PUPPIES.

To all the families who already have our poodles, and all of you who are looking for that special addition to your family for both pleasure and working fields.  Big things are happening at the farm - all started in 2007, and continuing on into 2008.

"Tasy" with TS5 pups - born September 16, 2007

If everything goes as planned we hope to have Mishelle moved into the renovated 140 year old farm house by March 2009.  Construction has already begun for turning the old wood shed into a new grooming parlor - with full bathing and grooming facilities, and a lounge area for showing puppies, with a photo area for photographing all of our poodles and those who come for grooming.  We are also contemplating a special service of seasonal photographs of families with their poodles like we have for years with our puppies, and for our brochures.  

Also in the plans is a new quilt shop, since three rooms of the newer home (it was my work house) had been used for this.  Currently my quilt shop is all boxed up and occupying the garage.  It will be so lovely to have a place to design and sew again, and maybe I can show our quilted items and goat milk soaps at a few bazaars again.

Cassie, Molly & Mandy watching Walt do Backhoe work!!!

We ask everyone's patience in the coming year as we are making lots of changes.  Once all is said and done it is going to make such a difference.  Mishelle will be here for grooming, access to the new grooming shop will be more convenient and visitor friendly, especially for classes.  Two or three of us will be able to groom at the same time - which will help with getting ready for shows or open houses.  The old grooming parlor is going to be transformed into my office - no more computer desks taking up space in the house, and cabinets full of supplies for shows, PR, vet reports, etc.

Hopefully by mid 2009 everything will have a place of it's own, but in the meantime we are dealing with a lot of chaos.  Hopefully in 2009 we will be able to start some repairs and renovations to the newer (our) house.  With Mishelle just across the driveway we will be much better able to help each other - especially with whelping, and covering for each other for shows and travelling.  She is also going to learn to use the computer - to help with PR, e-mailing, and website updating.  Mishelle will be retaining her Horizons Kennel name - and will continue at this time to breed her beautiful apricot/red miniatures and standards.  We will continue to be Friendship Farm 'N More, and plan to continue to breed the black and brown miniatures and standards, as well as our beautiful silver and blue standards.  We will continue to offer stud service in Standards - Silver/Blue and Brown lines, and Mishelle will be offering stud service in miniatures - black and apricot, and in standards - black and apricot.

Ginger with litter born June 3rd, 2007 out of Sunny

Once we have Mishelle and all of her menagerie moved to the farm, then we will still need to do all the preparation for selling her 5 1/2 acre farm and home (2 year old beautiful manufactured home) up on the hill (on timber deferral), secluded with deer that visit, and a beautiful view.  Know of anyone interested???

We will be continuing our service of boarding both standard and miniature poodles - although as of January 1st, 2008 rates will be $12.00/day for standards and $10.00/day for miniatures.  We are sorry about this increase, but upon checking with regular kennels understand that we are still below most kennel rates, however your poodles are kept in a family home.  We ask only that you provide their kibble, treats, a toy, and a family shirt or blanket, and occassionally your poodles own crate and pad.  Because we are a licensed kennel now it is also mandatory that you bring us a copy of proof of current rabies vaccination and kennel cough vaccination, and we would like your poodle treated with Frontline Plus or Advantix before bringing them - as there has been such an outbreak of fleas, ticks, lice and mites in Oregon and Washington this past year, and with parasites come other parasites and diseases.  We provide all their soft food (home made) and supplements.  You can also schedule your poodle for grooming while with us.

Mishelle is also continuing to provide beautiful grooming of all sizes of poodles, as well as teaching the grooming classes.  Classes are all one-on-one classes, and your poodle gets groomed at the same time for less than many groomers charge.   $60.00 for a pet clip class of approximately 4 hours, 4 hour show grooming class $75.00/session for a miniature, $85.00 per session for a standard.  For those who want to fly in and take a complete show grooming class - 3 days of class:  miniature $275.00, standards $375.00. This includes staying in our motor home, but does not include meals.  Classes will be approximately 6 hours per day.

Also for the next year or so we will not be marketing puppies for our group or mentoring new families wanting to get started in the breeding and/or showing of standard poodles. We will fulfill the commitments we have already made, just won't be adding to our work load for the next year or two.  We will be taking a good look at the end of 2009 and decide what we can carry for 2010, which will also depend on what our economy is doing.  Do keep an eye on the "Litter" page for updates, and litters needing reservations.

Mishelle has reduced her showing to just shows close to home.  We limited the number of litters we produced in 2007 and 2008, and are going to continue this into 2009.  We will only produce litters if we have the minimum number of reservations for the puppies per litter.  We are getting a lot of marketing competition from the "doodle" breeders, even though our puppies are priced lower and the parents have had more comprehensive testing, and the puppies more training.  This is leaving all of our associated group with older puppies to be fed, trained and held onto until we can place them with the family they deserve.  This gets very expensive for us and very labor intensive.  We have lots of families wanting browns, reds and apricots, as well as blacks.  Many of them wanting females.  Many breeders are feeling this same crunch as our small group.  Economy for families is also taking a hit from the high gas prices - commuting takes more and more of the family $, leaving less for luxury items - such as pets.  We have maintained our same prices for over 10 years regardless of the increase in grooming expenses (supplies, blade sharpening, equipment maintenance & replacement), good organic kibble (up $4.00/bag) and soft foods, supplements, veterinary costs, genetic testing, etc.

Elizabeth with TS5-1 Friendships My Little Tramp at 6 weeks of age.

We wish for everyone, in these busy times, a happy and prosperous New Year.

Walt & Bonnie & Mishelle