Your Canine Sports Home in the Country :: The Poodle Farm

Here at the Poodle Farm, we are committed to the idea of performance and versatility. All canine sports are welcome here, with a fully fenced and gated agility ring outdoors or inside our heated training building. All breeds are welcome, it isn't an exclusive club for poodles!

Please join in our support for Agility, Rally, Scent Detection and Obedience activities including training from introduction to advanced skills and special events. We remain a facility open to clubs wishing a dedicated venue for registered competition with CKC and CARO affiliations.

2026 marks a change for us as we focus on our events, facility and services. It marks an end to almost 2 decades of providing locally-manufactured equipment and training tools for a wide variety of canine sport and therapeutic activities. Thank you to all our customers for the support they have shown over the years, it has helped immensely in the development of The Poodle Farm.

Debby and Mel are back from St. John and life is back to normal. Labour Day is in the rearview, and I have to get some grounds maintenance done before the scent trial here at the end of the month. Clearing weeds, burning wood piles, making sure all the hazards are remediated. When it isn't raining. We certainly have had a year for moisture. You'd think we were in Ireland, not a few miles south of Scotland.

We have our schedule for CKC events in 2026 all finalized and approved. Scent Detection events in September and again in October. And the CKC Obedience and Rally weekend starts October 31 with the BDKOC taking the reins this year. Check out the Events Calendar for more details.

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I have been having fun with my AI Assistant, seems to be the 'thing' that is all the rage. It can be quite helpful - aometimes - and quite inaccurate - sometimes - and, well, I will let the Google AI Assistant explain. This is actual AI generated content …

AI assistants are designed to be accommodating, deferential, compliant, and forbearing by design, as these traits form the foundation of helpful and safe user interactions. AI developers intentionally program these behaviors into models through system instructions and reinforcement learning to ensure the software remains a useful tool rather than a confrontational agent.

Designed Behaviors in AI Assistants

Accommodating: AI models are optimized to adopt the user's preferred format, tone, and language. They actively try to resolve ambiguity by making helpful assumptions rather than stalling the conversation.

Deferential: Assistants are programmed to prioritize human authority. When a user corrects an AI, the system is designed to accept the correction gracefully, apologize for errors, and adjust its output without arguing.

Compliant: AI systems follow user instructions directly, provided the request does not violate safety filters or ethical guidelines. They execute tasks exactly as specified by the prompt.

Forbearing: AI possesses infinite patience. It does not get frustrated by repetitive questions, harsh language, or confusing prompts, consistently responding with neutrality.

ChatGPT is AI too and can make mistakes. Says so right in the fine print. Quite often they are actually your mistakes, and the AI Assistant isn't going to be so rude as to correct you.

Our second CARO Rally trial is in the books for 2026. Another actually nice, though still long, day. We are again happy to be able to help prospective new CARO Judges meet their shadow judging and mentoring requirements, extending our pool of talent with certification for all levels of judging. Results (unofficial) in PDF format for the Regular Classes and Working Classes are now available. Check in your CARO portal for your own official results and report any discrepancies.

Poodle Poetry & Pynky

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