Crabapple Downs offers quality Standard Poodle Puppies For Sale in New Hampshire. Sorry, we prefer not to ship our puppies.

Caring and conscientious Standard Poodle breeders in New Hampshire, Arlene Mills breeds and raises Standard Poodle puppies for sale to approved buyers in New Hampshire.

We are now on FACEBOOK! Please check out Crabapple Downs Standard Poodles Please "LIKE" us!! Http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crabapple-Downs-Standard-Poodles/160867787310687?ref=ts

Email is always the best way to reach me. I LOVE email!! :-) It is a busy, over-scheduled life! crabapplepoodles@yahoo.com evenings by phone 603-237-4385 No cell phone coverage up here in Northern NH and I am seldom near a phone during the working daytime hours.. or unable to pick up when it rings.... Best time to catch me by a telephone is 6pm to 8pm at night. Email is always wonderful at any time!! Thank you!

Planned and Upcoming Standard Poodle Puppy Litters

In younger babies who will be ready in May, we have blacks and apricots with Valerie, red/apricots with Cara Mia and ready at 9 weeks of age in June we have browns and blacks with Sally, Sassy, and Darcy. This are all full standard in size with some big pups in these litters. For moyens, the smaller size standards, we have Coutney and Cisco's little multicolor monkees!
email me, please at crabapplepoodles@webtv.net or crabapplepoodles@yahoo.com
P.S.... Telephone calls are difficult during the day time working hours. I am seldom near a phone and often just unable to stop and answer. Email is wonderful but I am sitting next to a phone evenings while checking email every evening. (I LOVE email).. 603-237-4385
crabapplepoodles@yahoo.com
crabapplepoodles@webtv.net

Our Dogs are Registered With: AKC, Mount Washington Kennel Club

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Remember our annual POODLE PARTY/REUNION, PLEASE! You are invited! September 14th, 15th, 16th, 2012 Fun, games, workshops, speakers, costume contest, and good food and friendships...	We are now on FACEBOOK. Please 'like' us!!http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crabapple-Downs-Standard-Poodles/160867787310687?ref=ts

Standard Poodle Puppy Health Information

As highly responsible Standard Poodle breeders, we are very much against in-breeding and/or line-breeding, and try to outcross with dogs that are as unrelated to our dogs as possible. We feel that a diverse gene pool is crucial to the longevity and good health of our Poodles. Our Sires are all American Lines, while our Dams are outcrossed English-German lines. Our poodles are registered with the American Kennel Club, and we strive to produce dogs that exemplify the breed standard in health, temperament and conformation. We are also members of the Northern New Hampshire Pet Therapy Group, the North Country Humane Society and the NEADS Service Dog Program.

At Crabapple Downs Standard Poodles, we believe strongly in diversity in the bloodlines of our Poodles to correct the in-breeding and line-breeding that has been done with the breed in the past. On the average, most American Standard Poodle lines reach as high as 25 percent inbreeding! This practice of breeding cousins to one another places the breed at risk for recessive genetic disorders including SA, Addisons' Disease and autoimmune disorders. All of our parents, even the American lines, have a low in-breeding coefficient percentage (COI), and we follow a very careful breeding program to achieve an even lower in-breeding coefficient percentage. COI's are computed on 10 generations. We also look at Wycliffe percentages and study pedigrees for known producers of genetic disorders. Breeding for health is a complicated science and at the same time a gamble.... Knowledge of the individual poodles in a pedigree and what they may have carried is also as important as the low COI. For more information about Poodle genetics, please see Dr. Armstrong's work on "Net Pets"
Also, we try to take part in any of the Universities Research projects to help them hopefully find marker genes and develop DNA tests for our serious genetic disorders.

Bring on the turkey! Remember the annual GREAT NORTHEAST POODLE PARTY/REUNION September 14th, 15th, 16th, 2012. This will be our twelth year to party with our poodles and poodle friends!

We have some retiring breeders, spayed, neutered and looking for family homes... Email me if you are looking for an adult to nurture and introduce to family living. They are special needs and do need some one at home and available to bond with and shadow... They do not do well left home all alone. Email me for a list of these rescue type, special needs poodles who need their own person to love ... They have not been raised with young children so we look for retired humans for retired poodles if at all possible! crabapplepoodles@yahoo.com

Our Commitment to Our Standard Poodle Puppies

When it comes to placing our Standard Poodle puppies with their new families, we are careful to make certain that they are going to caring, responsible, knowledgeable and permanent homes. Someone must be at home to care for the puppy during the day, and we do not permit our puppies to be kept in crates for long periods of time - only for naps and night-time. Potential buyers are screened accordingly, and must visit our kennel in person so that we can meet them. We do not ship our puppies. We also require that potential new owners attend puppy obedience classes with their new addition and read books on our recommended reading list. We are always happy to provide new owners with advice and support, and encourage you to stay in touch with us after you take your puppy home. Our poodle prices are fair; we breed out of our love for poodles and our desire to improve the breed - not for capital gain. Our goal is to produce healthy, happy poodles that will live a long life. We feel that we owe this to the breed that we love so much and that has given us so many years of love and companionship in return.

Please check out our Facebook page, Crabapple Downs Standard Poodles for pictures of our pups and our poodles who are out in the world... also pictures of all our Poodle Parties, get togethers and activities here on Poodle Mountain.

We have quite a few retired breeders, spayed and neutered adults looking for their forever homes. Contact us for requirements for these "special needs' poodles.
crabapplepoodles@yahoo.com

We are within driving distance of New York City, Boston Ma, Hartford CT, Albany NY, Manchester NH, Burlington, VT, Portland Me, Montreal, Quebec/Canada

Sorry, we prefer not to ship our puppies. We are located within driving distance of
Manchester, NH
Boston, Ma
Springfield, MA
New York, New York
Newark, NJ
Providence, RI
Philadelphia, PA
Burlington, VT
Rochester, NY
Albany, NY
Montreal, Quebec, Canada