Welcome to KushNivas, my name is Crysti and I will be your hostess (gosh, this sounds like a restaurant). First of all I would like to tell you about KushNivas (pronounced koosh nee va). It means a happy dog's house, and I'm the reason it was chosen. According to mom and dad, I'm the happiest dog alive. I wake up wagging my tail and go to bed the same way. What they don't realize is that I figured out real early if you are cute and happy, nobody can resist you and they always give you special things like hugs and treats and lots of attention. Mom and dad decided they want all their babes to be like me, happy. Their goal was to produce happy healthy babes, giving them the very best starts in life, free of hereditary problems. I'll tell you more of that later, right now it is about me.
	Well it was supposed to be about me, but mom said I have to do a little more explaining before I talk about me. So okay I will talk about KushNivas. Mom and Dad wanted a unique kennel name, but it had to have meaning. FAI was born at Khalsa Permanent Reg'd. Kennels.  Khalsa is a holy word which goes back 300 years, in the East Indian language.  Mom asked a friend, of East Indian descent, for suggestions which might be appropriate for a kennel name. Amongst them was Kush Nivas (2 words) and the translation is: "a happy dog's house". Mom and Dad loved it as it depicts what they want for us. With full agreement from FAI and I, we became KushNivas.
At KushNivas we breed, show, groom and do performance, ie obedience, Rally O, tracking, Field work (WC) and now agility. But our primary importance is happy, healthy dogs. Our philosophy is that Poodles should work and be conformationally sound. Our dogs must carry titles on both ends and have passed health testing including hips, Thyroid, SA, CERF, NEWS, von Willebrands and hopefully carry a CHIC number, before they can be bred. Mom and Dad believe in genetic testing, to produce the healthiest of puppies. Mom spends hours on the computer researching different bloodlines. She has been in contact with many wonderful people while doing this. People around the world have been very helpful.
Mom and Dad's human family includes 3 great kids (Tom, Cathy, and Sean), a wonderful daughter-in-law, a great son-in-law, and an ever growing number of beautiful grandchildren. Their dog life started over 40 years ago with a German Shepherd called Arisco de Ovejero. (He was a wedding present from my Dad to my Mom.) Both Mom and Dad are retired. Mom used to work at the RCMP in Administration and Dad is a retired member of the RCMP, after 30 years of service, of which 5 years were spent as a dog handler, he decided to retire. He is now a CGN (Canine Good Neighbor) Examiner and a CKC (Canadian Kennel Club)  Rally Judge.  Retirement is wonderful, more time for the ones who mean the most at KushNivas, us kids.... And now back to me.     Oh yeah, my mom and dad are Rod and Jane Beaudry, but you can call them mom and dad like I do......  Now back to ME...... It is with great sadness I must say we have lost both Crysti and FAI.  Crysti to Addison's (age 9) and FAI to cancer (age 6), however because KushNivas came about because of these two wonderful girls, I am leaving their pages on this web-site.  Please forgive my indulgence, but they will always be KushNivas.          ........jane