Dennis is here for a week and he brought his adorable adopted sister our Doris/Shelby! What a delightful boy he is! He really reminds me a lot of Wally.  He has not been one bit bothered by being here.  Is happy whatever were doing and loves everybody.  He will make a perfect stud muffin, just the personality we love for our future babies!   

Shelby however is worried.  She won’t eat and really doesn’t want to interact other than at the park.  She is stuck like glue to Harlee.  She reminds me so much of both her mom Patti Sue ( they wagged when they reunited) and our beloved Ruben.  She’s huge, 90 lbs I’d say and SO SWEET.  I feel bad for her, she is so lost😩 hopefully she’ll be more comfortable in a couple days.

The babies love Grace, they follow her like little ducklings, so adorable! They get cuter by the minute😀 Rene and Dottie still dutifully feed them even with those sharp teeth.  I feed them Taste of the wild grain free kibble mixed with chopped chicken heart and gizzards, eggs, tuna, ground turkey etc they are gaining about two lbs a week.  Good food is as important to how big they get as their genetics and we LOVE BIG POODLES!

 
What happy pups!! Elliot’s litter mate Kudos/Nicholas and Bernette/Greta a Patti Sue and Ruben baby! I love seeing our pups enjoying their lives!! All’s well here.  Harlee and I are preparing ourselves for next week when the babies start going home 😀😭 it really is hard to be sad when the new family is SO HAPPY!! We are getting so excited about the reunion.  It’s such a fun day of poodles and friends!! We love that people are camping!! June 27 10 am to 2 pm!! 

A big part of our getting babies ready for their new lives is haircuts.  We shave “something” every week so they get used to the sound of the clippers and being confined.  It makes a difference!  I love shaved faces and clean feet they look so darn cute!!

There is nothing like a big wet poodle kiss and especially one from Grace! She is stingy with her kisses and if you get one she really likes you.  She is definitely a one person dog, MINE 😍 she is never more than a few inches from me😍 I’m anxious to see how she does with a visit from her sister Doris/Shelby and DENNIS! They’ll be staying with us a week while their family goes to a wedding.  Grace hates having other dogs here.  Poor Rosalie, for several hours she is followed and STARED at.  She takes it all in stride trying to avoid Grace☺️ haha makes for a busy house!

What a nice night for a pontoon ride.  The girls just love it.  The boat seems empty with just six dogs😓 We had ten poodles for years and sadly they have left us.  Sadly it’s time to downsize both the size of the house and number of pets, lots of mixed feelings about that.  Babies are little terrors in the grass yard haha, it is not as safe as the tile yard so I don’t always let them in there (and poop is harder to clean up) when the gate is closed they have a melt down😳lol after just one day they know it’s more fun in there, lots of things to chew😀 Little smarties! 

 
It’s been three years since I said a tearful ( to say the least) goodbye to my sweet Checkers ( mom of Patti Sue) such a wonderful girl, so sweet and loving 😭 I rescued her from a breeder in Ohio ( her and her sister Jazz) they were terribly neglected with their only function to have babies.  thankfully poodles were too much work and they unloaded them at two years old after their first litters but the damage was done.  Jazz did fine but as Checkers got older she was very fearful and sadly became unpredictable.  When she charged at Tom I had no choice but to put her to sleep😭😭😭one of the worst thing I’ve ever had to do.   I was so happy I had her seven years, I was her everything.   I loved her and she knew it.  I hold Patti, close my eyes and for a moment I pretend she’s my sweet Checkers, the girl who would have been a totally different dog had her first home been someone who had loved her 😭😭😭

The babies got dry food today, haha they worked and work to swallow the dry bits.  Artie and Sugar managed to eat as much as everybody else considering they still have just one tooth each.  I feed them goo in the morning and night so they get plenty to eat.  Rene and Dottie feed them too.  How can they get cuter by the minute?

Kurt loves hair, it’s so fun to see him having such a good time pulling and tugging.  Puppy play is so cute, it’s hard not to spend all day getting puppy kisses but I do have a couple projects I have to work on, like putting this house back together and working on the new house.  I have yard work at the park too and we take the dogs to play at least an hour.  I had lots more time when I worked!! I’m still puzzled about that, when did I fit all this stuff in when at least 40 hours was used up??

Good thing Artie and Sugar only have one tooth each because they love to naw of the big girls haha ( that includes me and Harlee LOL) Just adorable! that Artie LOVES to bite ( naw) Gracie’s legs, he chases her all over and weaves in between her legs nipping each one, when she lifts that one up, he latches on to the next available. He is delightful! Sugar loves and always has Aunt Dottie, it’s adorable how they cuddle.  All of them are SO DARN CUTE!  it’s really hard for us not to favor Sue, she loves both me and Harlee and would rather sit on our laps than go eat.  She cries for us to pick her up😩 AGH HOW DO YOU RESIST THAT???  They all love us, but in every litter there is one who loves you best, one that’s extra hard to hand over.  She is going to Wisconsin to live with a PARRIS BABY, litter mate to our beloved Francis!! She will be a happy baby!