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| ABOUT KENNEL AND ABOUT MYSELF, KENNEL'S REPRESENTATIVES |
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To honor the memory of our Tootsie Kennel's history. At the same time with silver color I am engaged in breeding black dwarves. I became interested in black color long ago. Among the main reasons there were a stability of black color in comparison with variable color of silver poodles and the fact that black poodle's silhouette in show cut is more winsome than other colors. To the beginning of 1990-s natively bred black poodles demonstrated in Moscow Dog Shows were sad to look at. That was the most unfavorable and neglected color that was considered not fashionable and was left without a drop of new blood. Foreign experts working on the 1-st All-Union Poodle Show in Krylatskoe in 1989 (1200 participants of all sizes and colors) regarded black color as not meeting international standard requirements. It was evident that without interference of an excellent stud-dog we wouldn't be able to correct the situation in 1-2 generations. Solving a problem of how and where from to take a dog without making a mistake is always very difficult. Buying puppies from foreign kennels is very expensive and I didn't want to receive a male only because there was no demand for it in Europe. My breeder from Switzerland frau Ruth aus der Au conscientiously helped me to solve this problem. Thanks to her recommendation I got a small puppy Piccadilly's Wonderboy (or simply Bantik) - a male whose father Bordenberg Macaroni Mouse (a toy poodle) I had often seen in my dreams. Just like Silver Kolja Bantik turned out to be a stud with a good potency. I was very lucky again. Specialists in breed and black color know his straight offsprings, grandchildren and great-grandchildren very well. Wonderboy's breeder Mrs. Susan Baldinger wants to renew Bantik's line lost by her and to buy a bitch from Russia that has a blood line of this excellent male. On his credit side there are 7 Interchampions and about two dozens champions of Russia and other countries as well as one Vice-World Champion-2000. His blood phenotype can be distinguished among modern poodles that are even not his straight offsprings. The most famous of Wonderboy's sons is Vostorg Nochy iz Russkogo Dvora (Interchampion, champion of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Finland, Bulgaria, National club, RKF). I left in my kennel several bitches - offsprings of my black pair Piccadilly's Wonderboy and Russia Love Edition v.d. Foxmountain (my bitch was imported from Holland):
Mrs. Lisbeth Max produced 52 Interchampions and 23 World and European Champions in her kennel. Hopes connected with this young male start coming true. Before his second birthday he became a champion of Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, 7 CAC, 3 CACIB and 3 BOB. His daughter from Black Melancholy Ljalja the Black iz Russkogo Dvora at the age of 9 months got a title of the Best Junior on her debut UPC show. When she was 13 months old she became the Best Junior of Eurasia-2001 judged by a very strict expert from Finland Mr. Jaarveenen; her brother Lakomy Kusochek at the age of 11 months became the Best Junior of the 9th group on the International CACIB Show in Kiev. His name - Superstar's Black Unexpected Joy - I invented myself and Lisbeth kindly approved of it. At the same time I bought from Mrs. Max a black bitch. She was Joy's half-sister and was named Superstar's Black Totoshka. She was a toy poodle. Joy and Totoshka have a common father - twice World Champion and champion of more than 10 countries Fidel Full Fart Mickey. Totoshka's mother is a well-known bitch - World Champion Superstar's Sweet Black Smoky offspring from a brown bitch with further brown dogs in her pedigree. It is possible that puppies received from Totoshka in "Russky Dvor" will be brown, too. Maybe this color will join the other three colors already present in the kennel. Nowadays it is considered stylish to join one's Russian kennel's name to a name of a kennel of a dog imported from another country. In this case you add your not-known kennel's name to the results of many years of other people's labor. I understand the justice of this method in those cases when dogs belonging to both kennels took part in breeding, but unceremonious usage of another's name is wrong and vicious. It is not clear who is a breeder: a Russian kennel with a three-year history or a kennel that has been successfully producing champions for 20-30 years. Only a professional familiar with the breed can understand this reshuffle. It is even more sad that this method is used by people from the governing body of the club, the same people that we elected to preserve purity and development of the breed. This method is a sort of kynological plagiarism. I've got a special attitude to white color. I don't take a great interest in it. In 1994 I visited the World Dog Show in Bern, Switzerland where I got directly acquainted with my breeder Ruth. I was looking for a white male for a kennel's white family from Blansh Belle Bijou v.d. Molenvlate (Holland). She offered me to look at a 2.5 months-old puppy. Iana Gavrilova and I weighted all arguments pro and con because it was very easy to make a mistake at this age, but we came to the conclusion that Marlon of Twist Castle would be a good stud-dog. I don't regret buying him. He produced 4 Interchampions, 8 champions of Russia and other countries, his daughter and granddaughter became Junior World Champions. His direct offsprings can be immediately recognized by their phenotype on all rings. Using Marlon as a stud-dog produces much better results than using his offsprings. Being mated with several bitches Marlon produced toy females. Two of them (alimony) were left in the kennel. Dikovinka (27 cm) lives in Ufa and I left Melkaja Monetka (Small Coin) (27 cm) for myself. These two excellent bitches wonderfully reproduce Marlon's phenotype.
In summer 2000 Monetka gave birth to a toy female Tantsujushaja Denejka (Dancing Coin). Her farther was rather a small dwarf having toys in his pedigree Sporrence Blaste-Off (imported from Sweden). I think that our puppy is very promising and it has a glorious future ahead.
Several years ago our poodle society watched with admiration multiple victories of an invincible pair - full brother and sister Snejnaja Anutiny Glazky and Ay-Malchik iz Russkogo Dvora. These two snow beauties (Anuta became an Interchampion) were the most outstanding offsprings of Blansh Belle Bijou v.d. Molenvlate (owned by T.P. Ivanova). It is regrettable that the owner of Anuta didn't use this excellent bitch for breeding and she left no offsprings. Now kennel "Russky Dvor" (officially "iz Russkogo Dvora") consists of 13 poodles. Four of them are pensioners. These are a pair of silver Swisses Silvel Kolja and Silver Windsong and a pair of black dogs Piccadilly's Wonderboy and Russia Love Edition (Holland). Several poodles of the kennel have joint ownership and live in different Russian cities. I don't want to name all my nurslings and to describe their advantages and disadvantages. I could tire you with a list of each poodle's victories and titles, but this is not what I'm aiming for. I want a common reader to read my story about creating not the largest but the oldest and the most honest Russian kennel breeding dwarf and toy poodles.
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