On Memorial day, I received this wonderful "Joey's Journal" entry from my friend Charlene Dunlap of Canine Horizons.  Honestly, I think every day is a holiday for the dogs who live with Charlene and Glenn! Since I haven't featured her crew in a while, I thought my readers might enjoy this update with some fun photos.  Thank you Charlene, for allowing me to share them with Poodle Blogger readers! We hope you are all having a very pleasant Memorial Day. Since we've been rather confined the previous three days due to our fortnightly groomathon, we decided we'd spend the cooler part of today in activities.  After our morning yard walk, the boys and I went to the training building for more activities.  Sydney wanted to work on her tan and did not accompany us indoors.          First thing Scotty always does is run to the mail box and open and shut the lid.  Funny boy!    Then up the ladd...

Nothing says Spring like a happy young Poodle bouncing through the wildflowers!  This one belongs to Susan Wilson, of Five Star Poodles.  For more photos and information on her lovely Poodles, see her website, www.fivestarpoodles.com . Thanks so much Susan, for sharing this photo! Melanie Poodle Blogger www.knowingdogs.com

Blogging Anyone?             Want to be the next Poodle Blogger? I have truly enjoyed developing this website by adding training and other articles, and then blogging articles, short posts and interviews of Poodle people over the past few years. However, to be totally honest, I am working on a couple of other major projects this year, and Poodle blogging has taken a back seat. I have run out of things to talk about, whew, that was hard to admit! This blog is easy to use and maintain, becaue it is on Google’s free “Blogger” program. Costs for me are keeping the domain sites, which I have registered as www.poodleblogger.com and www.poodleblog.com on GoDaddy.   So this truly is the least expensive website that I own (in comparison to my dog training sites, which are on Joomla and hosted by a website provider.   I did invest several hundred dollars up front to have someone design the logo (of the Poodle typing his blog) and ...

Guys, I wish I had photos of my own grooming to show you that looks like this, but I don't have this kind of talent! Here are some recent photos of my friend Charlene Dunlap's dogs Scotty and Joey, after a recent haircut (courtesy of their Mom and Dad, Charlene and Glenn of Canine Horizons). "Joey" looking  down as his older sis "Sydney", who is lounging around in the grooming room while the young boys have their Spa Day. Don't you just love Joey's markings? Joey all dolled up, a completed work of art!  Charlene says she still wants a little more angle on his rear legs, but looks pretty near perfect to me! "Scotty" after his haircut, what can I say but "WOW"!  These two handsome boys have made me change my opinion on natural tails  (they do not have docked tails, but they are still just as lovely as any parti-colored Poodle I have seen with a docked tail, aren't they?  Kind of adds a bit more "charact...

Happy New Year! I was actually looking for a funny photo of Kate, my old girl, to wish you a wonderful New Year. But while going through photos, I found this one of her half-sister, Lizzie, that I had entitled "Mom, I am sooo tired of this photo shoot!"  Because I think that was exactly what was in her mind when we took this photo. We owned a boarding kennel then, and Lizzie had put up with over an hour of photos before this, out in the training field, then we had taken her over by the pond, trying to get a "relationship photo" of the two of us. I am not so sure what this photo says about our relationship, but it has always made me laugh.  I believe this photo was taken in 2004 or 2005.  Sadly, we lost Lizzie in 2008, just before she turned 7 years old, from lymphoma. Kate, her younger half sister, is now 11 and not doing well.  We sure miss the days when both were well and happy--they brought us so much happiness through the years. No, this is going to be ...