Flying Poodles

Elly and Dancer

Elly and Dancer are my two standard poodles. As of today, Dancer is almost 16 months, and Elly is almost 4. Dancer is blue (dark grey) with silver highlights; Elly is the color of real undyed butter (or a yellow lab), with darker apricot ears. They are NOT froufrou poodles (Barbie poodles, my nephew calls them). They are big healthy active dogs, clipped short to make their lives and mine easier.

Elly has irritable bowel disease and has multiple food allergies as well, specifically to soy, salmon, dairy, lamb, wheat (in large quantities) and probably a few other things I haven’t tried yet. A year ago, she spent three months on prednisone to calm down her system, and since then she’s been mostly fine. I cook for her and Dancer most of the time, usually a soup of dehydrated vegetables with chicken broth, flax seed oil, lactobacillus capsules, and some chicken liver or roast chicken, sometimes a bit of beef.

For training, I make special chicken liver and oatmeal brownies. I put the recipe on its own page.