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Page of Links to Poodle Clubs and Poodle Breeders A history on how this database came to be: I am a Golden Retriever person who loves Poodles. We owned a wonderful white Andechez miniature Poodle in the late 80’s early 90’s. Poochie was the love of my young son’s life. They were inseparable and Michael was devastated when his Poochie died. Michael asked that I not get another Poodle at that time because he would not be able to bear it and I respected his wishes. Two years ago I decided Michael is a grown person now and that we should have another Poodle, so off I trekked to Detroit for “Arnold”. Now my son has another Poodle to love and we all love Arnold. Maria joined our family almost 3 years ago. Michael is frequently heard criticizing me for having Goldens instead of “superior” Poodles. For years I have had the opportunity to do pedigree research for Golden Retrievers on www.k9data.com When I bought Arnold I naturally wanted to research his pedigree. That was when I found out there was no online database for Poodle pedigrees. Shocked doesn’t cover the emotion I felt upon discovering this fact. During my searches for Poodle data I happened across Eva Mitchell who expressed that she had been longing for an online Poodle Pedigree database for years. Eva offered to “loan” me the data in her database if I would put it online. I found Pedigree Central http://www.alfirin.net/pedigree-central/ which is a wonderful resource for people who want to be able to access the pedigrees for their breed. The database I put online with the Alfirin software was a wonderful resource for Poodle fanciers but it left me with many hours of data entry for all the changes and additions that needed to be made. I decided that I would try and get the Poodle database online as a “live” database like www.k9data.com This was not an easy undertaking, but thanks to Amy Raby for selling me a license to her scripts and my having to learn about MS SQL databases and .asp scripts, I managed to do it! The rest, as they say, is history! To help defray the costs of maintaining the database I accept donations via paypal Contributors who do not use paypal have asked for a mailing address: Karen Mills
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