My friend Rick Miles attends all the Poodle parties with his friends up on Poodle Mountain in New Hampshire. I love seeing all the Crabapple Downs Poodles and their owners having fun...but my favorite of all the photos almost always involve Poodles in the Pond on Poodle Mountain! Enjoy! Thank you Rick, for sharing the joy of Poodle Mountain even with those of us who have never had the pleasure of visiting!

Hi! I'm Melanie Schlaginhaufen, the Poodle blogger. As of this date, the Poodle blog is still in its beginning stages. However, I would love for you to join us, and let me know what type of things you would like to read about on a Poodle blog. I am a dog trainer and writer, who specializes in solving canine behavioral problems. My bio can be found on my Knowing Dogs website, by clicking here: About Melanie . Also on my Knowing Dogs site, you will find dog training articles, as well as information on affordable, easy-to-read dog ebooks that you may find helpful. On my Knowing Dogs website, you will also find a link to the Knowing Dogs blog , which is full of dog training articles, product reviews and all types of things for dog owners and dog rescue volunteers. Hope to meet you soon, via one blog or another! Melanie

My friend Jeanne Haight never fails to make me smile with photos of her lovely silver Poodle girl "Morgen" interacting with her newest addition, "Cole". What often makes the photos so cute are the captions that Jeanne includes. I thought this one was especially cute! Whatcha got there, Sis.........more rabbit poop???? Thank you Jeanne, for sharing their fun with us!

My friend Corinne Grant, in Greensboro, North Carolina asked me to let all of my Poodle friends know about this special little girl named Lacy. She is in need of a forever home due to the death of her owner. Here is what her temporary foster home had to say about sweet little Lacy: Lacy is a 10 year old white miniature poodle. Her owner died 3 weeks ago and she has been at the vet having a little surgery to remove two warts on her back so she is missing a little hair. She gets along great with kids, other dogs and loves to be talked to. Her owner was an 89-year old widow and she is a inside lap dog. I have all of her records. She has been a patient of Greensboro Vet on High Point Rd. She has had her senior annual and is on heartworm preventive. We have all of her supplies. She has a small heart murmur and she is on meds for that. If you do have someone interested we would love to talk to them We are willing to supply them with a supply of heartworm and heart murmur meds if ...

Jeannette Clemons sent me these wonderful photos of her parti-colored girl "Dora", a/k/a Pandora P. Pantaloon. Just her name alone indicates her adorable character, don't you think? Miss Pantaloon was very surprised this year when Jeannette's automatic sprinkler system kicked in, but as you can see from the photos, she quickly decides it is great fun!

SIT means TAKE A SEAT!! "Taking a seat" is something quite different than just "sitting". If you invited a visitor into your home, and you told him to "take a seat" as you pointed to your couch, you would expect that he would sit down and stay politely seated while you engaged in conversation. You might offer him a piece of candy from the dish on your coffee table, and your guest would say thank you as he took the candy, while still remaining seated. However, if a visitor to your home was asked to take a seat and he simply sat quickly on the couch, grabbed a candy from the dish, popped up and then started to wander off, instead of staying seated and engaging in conversation with you, you would think he was pretty rude, right? Yet we tolerate this behavior from our dogs all the time. Just a quick sit and pop-up for a treat is not an acceptable behavior for a dog when we ask them to sit. Is the dog being taught a "sit" or is he being taught a...

Many thanks to my friend Rick Miles for this fun photo of his Standard Poodle "Houdini". Maybe he was feeling as happy as the rest of us this week due to the big news we are seeing on TV? I don't know Houdini's politics but I know he is a guy who loves life and certainly loves to pose for the camera! Houdini is such a character, and I never get tired of his funny faces! Thanks again Rick, I so enjoyed this photo.