Our poodle kennel “von der Salana” exists since 1980. We are breeding apricot Miniature, Dwarf and Toy Poodles.

In 1988 we got our first red poodle. That was the 2 years old Miniature male “Rosaline’s Burning Fire“, bred in the USA. He was the first red poodle in the DDR.  We bred this male with 3 Miniature Females from our own breeding and got puppies in red and apricot.

From the breeding “Rosaline’s Burning Fire“ x “Eirene von der Salana“ we kept the red male “Pumuckl von der Salana“ (31.12.1988).

From the breeding ”Rosaline’s Burning Fire“ x “Lilli-Marlen von der Salana“  we kept the red female “Queen in red von der Salana“ (20.10.1989).

From the breeding “Rosaline’s Burning Fire“ x “Monalisa von der Salana“ (02.01.1990) we gave the red females to breeders in Moskow: “Red Radiance von der Salana“ to Galina Alexejewa and „Red Revolution von der Salana“ to Pawel Iwanow.

From the breeding “Rosaline’s Burning Fire“ x “Hattrice von der Salana“ the red male “Mandarin von Engelblick“ also came to Russia to Georgi Baklushin.

“Rosaline’s Burning Fire“was bred in the years 1989/ 90 to bitches from Moscow (Breeders: Iwanow, Alexejewa, Tschukajewa, Wanagas), which also produces red puppies.

(s. Shuko, J.  „Kleinpudel in roter Farbe“;  Alexejewa, G. „Zwergpudel in roter Farbe“ in „Pudeli Rossii“, Moskau 1995)

When I had once more the chance to judge the Poodles on a show in Moscow in 1995, I was extraordinary impressed and emotional affected, how many beautiful red and apricot children and grandchildren are out of this special male.

We were always keen to get the red color in the breeding but it was at all times difficult for us, to find adequate (red) males for our bitches. That means, we had to study the pedigrees of potential stud dogs exactly to get some indices of red “genes”.

We bred our bitch “Queen in red von der Salana“ (Dwarf) amongst others with the male “Champagne D’Or Valentino“. From this litter we kept the red female “Undine Burning Fire von der Salana“ (04.05.1996).

We bred this bitch with “Solnes An Golden Orrange“. From this breeding we kept in 2002 the Dwarf male “Xerxes X-tra Edition von der Salana“ and the Toy female ”Xilimee X-tra Edition von der Salana“. Both dogs were really intensive in their red color till they are 2 years. The bitch Xilimee is nowadays a bit lighter and is accepted on shows without any problems as dark apricot. The male Xerxes is normal apricot today. Both dogs are shown very successful on shows (Xilimee is German Champion VDH + VDP; Xerxes is International Champion, Multichampion and European Winner).

From the repeated breeding “Undine Burning Fire von der Salana“ x “Solnes An Golden Orrange“ we kept in 2003 the female “Yes I’m Yarica von der Salana“. This bitch is very dark red. It is notable, that the at the beginning black pigment of the nose after the first year  heavily lightened. With special feed the nose pigment became darker but it didn’t become black. This is a one-time problem in our breeding.

This bitch was also shown as an apricot (!) Dwarf on shows. Some judges gave her only a “very good”, particularly because of her color and/or because of the lightened nose pigment. From other judges, looking more on the preferences of this bitch, her elegant Dwarf type which made her presenting herself very well in the show ring, she got “excellent” estimations including Res. CACIB and BOB.

With our Toy bitch ”Xilimee” we bred in 2005 a litter. Father of this puppies is an apricot male from Australia, whose pedigree contained diverse red ancestors, to some extent from USA-Lines and to some extent going back to “Solnes”.  The 4 puppies from this litter are 3 month now. All 4 puppies have the same intensity of coat color, but are more apricot than red. We will be able to watch the development of this litter because of all 3 males are reserved for show people in Germany, Russia and Sweden. The female puppy we keep for ourselves.