Our Dogs

Our first dog was Sam.  He's no longer with us, but his progeny certainly are.   They are all over the continent competing in shows, field trials, agility, working as therapy dogs, and being fantastic companions for their owners. 

Whatta guy.  we miss him.

As a kid, Geoff always wanted an apricot.  Thanks to the kindness of our fellow Nova Scotian breeder Kathryn Diefenbach, we got one - Sassy, our matriarch.  She hailed from Louisiana, a bayou belle.  Alas, she too is now gone - Christmas morning, 2016.

Sassy had 35 puppies.

Sass and Sam were a fabulous pair.  On their union we began to build our line of Leeward Standard Poodles.

From their first litter we kept two, Pix and Charlot...

In her day, the late Pix had 23 puppies, and Charlot was a proud dad a few times himself with other people's dogs.  One of his pups we got as a stud fee, the wonderful black Bijou (Classay Beaujolais), a bright penny indeed, and six days later here at home, Pixel's glorious white daughter, Georgia (aka Leeward's Buckwheat) was born. Alas, in a tragic accident, Bijou passed away on Canada Day, 2020 and Georgia is gone now too.

Beeje and Georgia were inseparable buds, might as well have been littermates.

To enrich our genepool, inspired by Geoff's dad's dream of creating the perfect poodle, one that wins in the ring and the field, we imported from a Wisconsin breeder, Luna, and we bred her to Charlot - what a match.

Luna had three litters, a litter of nine, and two singletons.  Her last puppy we call the Great White Hope, Leeward's Ninja.  Has there ever been a more gorgeous, biddable boy? But all great dogs must come to an end too. Ninja died at 11 in the spring of 2024, too early.

...and from our 2017 litters, mama extraordinaire, Leeward’s Ella Fitzgerald. Ella had five litters and we’ve kept two of her kids, Leeward’s Nicheca Harvester of Hearts, aka Rufus after Rufus Wainright, and Leeward’s Nicheca Pecane, two years old on Hallowe’en, 22024, and whom we hope to breed this winter.