The very first Poodle in my life was in 1964. This was a white boy named “Pierre”. After Pierre, there were several Toy Poodle girls in the family over the years to 1984. 

In 1985, Brian and I married. No kids, but much discussion of bringing a large, silver male Standard Poodle into our family came about. 

Brian has had Brittanys since 1959 and always thought a Standard Poodle would be a great upland game bird hunting partner for his Brittanys. 

Brian was hunting pheasants in Knight’s Landing, Northern CA. in 1983 and watching a silver Standard Poodle work in the field. It was very impressive. 

After a lot of research and planning, bringing in our first standard poodle Gi Gi in 1999 and the many poodles that have followed, the kennel name, Marquis Diamond came to be. This name came to us as a result of many of our dogs that had “Diamond” in their registered names and the favorite cut in the precious stone for us is the MARQUIS cut. It just worked out that the full name, “Marquis Diamond” for our Standard Poodles was the right fit. 

We have evolved over the last few years into a large dog family and our lives in our home are ALL THINGS DOG. We are a DOGHOUSE! Our poodles and brittanys have full access to our home, our grounds and all areas on our property. Our home has a walk out basement and our grooming room, food preparation set up and puppy play area are in the basement with full kennel and play areas in shaded/ weather protected sections in the front of our residence.  

Our puppies are born in our den on the first floor of our home and for the first 4 – 6 weeks are raised with us in our house and fully interact with us in our everyday lives. By 6 weeks of age, they are ready to move to their puppy play area in our basement which is adjacent to our grooming room. Our outside puppy play area that is set up with astro turf is the next step for them by 7 weeks of age, they go to the outside play area, weather permitting, a few hours each day. We live on 10 fenced acres and when there are no visitors expected, our adult dogs are allowed free access to our grounds, house and play areas. 

Over the last 13 years, bringing us to early 2012, we have had many accomplishments with our dogs that can be reviewed by going through the various pages on our website. We breed, raise and show standard poodles in various colors such as Silver, White, Blue and Black. We have bred pups in Red and on a small scale, Apricot and Brown as well. Many of our performance accomplishments have been with our puppy families as our event commitment with our dogs has been in the conformation venue. We also hunt upland game with our poodles, alongside our brittanys. 

Our standard poodle foundation was established with the Pinafore linage in the colors Silver, White and Black. Pinafore standard poodles is the hard work and commitment of Penny Harney, established in 1963.

Penny Harney has now retired as a primary breeder and sold her home / kennel property in TN moving to a retirement life and watching all her line up from afar.