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I took Gumbo to the local May Days festival today. Judi is out of town, so I only took one dog and Gumbo drew the long straw. While we were there, he spent his allowance on a cowboy hat. He loves it. He says it makes him look like John Wayne.

After this picture and video were taken, I realized it looks much better if it is moved forward on his head, but I didn’t get any images of that. He says he wants to rope cats. I tried to tell him it was steer that cowboys rope, but he insists on roping cats

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Just surfed in. Enjoyed reading all the post and pictures.

Meet our standards Molly and Mandy from the Ravendune kennels.

Heidi

This is my sister’s Yorkie. Her name is Annie and she is a very sweet and smart pooch. She loves carrots!

For those who have a pup from the Philips’ litter, it’s almost birthday time. On March 12 our pups will be a year old. Gumbo is still pretty puppy-like in that he is very excitable and tends to be really bouncy. Lately he jumps. We have pretty well broken him from jumping on us, but he just jumps when he gets excited. Creole was a lot like that until about three months ago. She seemed to go through a transition around the holidays where she calmed down quite a bit. Some of you who have had Standards before might can shed some light on this.

How’s your pup a year into its life? Get those cameras ready ya’ll. It’s poodle birthday time!

Here are some photos Bella sent me of her birthday party. She is quite the snappy dresser!

Hello and Happy Easter to all my brothers and everyone else from Li’l Sis!

This is not a photo of me, just one we saw and wanted to share.

-Bella

Judi was trying to snooze on the sofa when she was overcome by furry friends. First Creole jumped up and laid across her, then Gumbo jumped up to her left and took up the rest of the space.

Happy New Year to all!

These are photos of Bella the Standard Poodle. She is the only sister of Gumbo, Killee and the rest of the pups from the Philips’ litter.

She looks happy and healthy and is celebrating a Christmas bone with her older sister.

We just returned from a 2500+ mile, two week trip to Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday. Creole and Gumbo had adventures along the way. Actually, Creole has been to Florida and back by car but this was Gumbo’s first trip more than about 50 miles.

We folded up the seats in the back of the truck and piled pillows and blankets on the floor and piled the two poodles in and took off. They did beautifully. There was no motion sickness, backseat territorial disputes (I had those with my siblings…fun) or terrible restlessness. We made a point to get them out and walk them for 1/2 hour or so about every 4 hours and they were just fine. They did not eat much while we were traveling, but other dogs I have had didn’t eat while traveling either.

Once in a while one of them would stick their head up front between the front seats and look at us as if to ask “are we there yet?”

On the way home, Creole and Gumbo got to meet their cousin Bingo the Parti Poodle. We stopped by my sister’s house in Louisiana and let them run while we had dinner.

Overall it was a great trip for us and the poodles.