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Archive for November, 2011

Neat and clean

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 Posted in Photos | 1 Comment »

I spent the morning grooming all three dogs. The results: [caption id="attachment_1863" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="Elly, Rush, and Dancer"][/caption]

Rush continues to grow…

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 Posted in life with poodles | Comments Off

Rush will be six months old in 3 days (on the 11th). Today he weighs 41 pounds. He still looks lean, runs faster than I ever expected, and goes through tunnels like a border collie on steroids.

Working on the new list…

Friday, November 4th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments Off

I've been working on several things from the new training list, as well as training some foundation skills that are needed for other things on the list. I've asked several people how they train LEFT and RIGHT. A surprisingly large ...

In which Elly persuades a squirrel to come down out of a tree….

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »

Elly is obsessed with squirrels. She thinks they're the best thing in the world ever to chase. Way better than cats. If she could climb a tree to get a squirrel down, she would. She's tried, several times. There's a ...

Wild Puppy!

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 Posted in life with poodles, training | 1 Comment »

I woke up this morning to a new Rush. Yesterday he was calm and cool, listening attentively at class; this morning he's a whirling dervish, dying to tug, taunting poor Elly and Dancer until they snap at him, running wild ...