Small Victories Matter….
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffWe managed an entire 90-minute dog park walk without Elly completely losing her brain.
Prey animals are dumb OR Why was I looking forward to spring?
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffAfter yesterday's adventure in the bushes at Marymoor, I thought I'd just keep the dogs home today. But when I took them out into the yard, there was a bunny in the yard, which Elly and Dancer just had to ...
Sometimes, you’ve just got to let a dog be a dog…
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffAfter our agility weekend, I took Elly and Dancer over to Marymoor to let them run wild and loose this morning. It was a lovely crisp morning, a little frost on the ground, and both dogs turned into complete lunatics. ...
Dancer NJP
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in agility titles, trials | Comments OffDancer got her Novice Jumpers Preferred title on Saturday, with a gorgeous first place jumpers run of 29.55 seconds over a distance of 109 yards; SCT was 41 seconds. The judge was Lavonda Herring. I enjoyed her courses all weekend; ...
Itty Bitty Victory
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffI shaved the girls' faces. (Wow, that looks weird. I mean, I shaved the dogs' faces.) And Dancer's face doesn't look that bad. Elly looks kind of patchy, but it's a start, anyway.
Sports and Agility
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in training | Comments OffI was thinking about my previous sports experience related to my experiences in agility. Four years on my high school's swim team as a diver and butterfly swimmer taught me that persistence matters--often as much as skill (I occasionally won, even ...
Update on Dancer’s Toe
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffDancer had the bandage removed and replaced yesterday. She did not make a big fuss about this process. The vet tech says she is healing nicely. This bandage will come off Monday and that should be that. Today she is ...
Pink Poodles
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffThree people have sent me this link or some other source for the same story: Pink Poodles which is all about a woman who dyes her miniature poodle pink, using "vegan dyes" also known as the commercial product Manic Panic, which ...
My poor baby Dancer…
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in poodles | Comments OffShe's fine, really, but I'm completely traumatized. Dancer managed to completely tear off one of the toenails on her back left foot. (In attempting to look on the bright side of this, it has already occurred to me that now I ...
Poodle Grooming
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in poodles | Comments OffYesterday I spent two hours with my regular poodle groomer learning how to do a basic sanitary clip (feet, face, "pooper" (her choice of description)). I took a short course about three years ago, when Elly was a puppy, but ...