Brocade Standard Poodles is a small show kennel located in Olympia, WA. All of our dogs are family members and live in our home in just over a half-acre.
Our first standard poodle, Tango, was a rescue. Tango came to live with us in 1979 at the young age of sixteen months. She had been through five homes before she came to us where she lived the rest of her life.
In 1996 we had the opportunity to purchase a darling black year-old standard poodle from Marlene Miller, Ch. Kalistas d'Retrieva. Riva was our first show dog. She finished quickly earning majors with stiff competition at the Rose City shows in Portland in 1997.
At the time we finished Riva, there was a beautiful white special being shown by Tim Brazier. We had the opportunity to purchase Vavoom from Bouquet Kennels with Tim's facilitation.
Vavoom was bred in 1998 to Am. Dan. Intl. Ch. Pinafore Proud Boy owned by Yvonne Hagman of Avion Poodles. The resulting litter produced ten healthy white puppies, two boys and eight girls. Of the ten puppies, 6 girls were AKC champions and 5 girls were Canadian Champions. See all of her champion daughters shown under Ch. Bouquet Vavoom to the left.
Am. Can. Ch. Brocade Crystal Tailwind was the last of the Vavoom daughters to be finished with both of her championships. She was specialed lightly and was the recipient of multi-BIS and BBIS wins. Dottie was bred in 2003 to King's Champagne Taste ("Andy"). The resulting litter had 2 white boys and 1 white girl and 1 black boy and 5 black girls. Ch. Brocade Reach for the Skkye owned by John and Karen Calkins and shown by Margie and Tim Sullivan is a Top Producer from that litter. Currently Margie and Tim Sullivan are specialing one of her daughters, "Ariel", for the Caulkins.