Why a Blog???

June 11, 2009

Finally the channel has opened.....after 3 months of extensive multi-dimensional work, primarily consisting of deep iris eye contact, all systems are a go!!!! I have learned a bit of human, and my human has learned POODLESPEAK....Let us first start with introductions.

I, Tito, joined the family in early March of this year. I had started to feel like outcast, something like Jonathan Livingston Seagull, because family after family had visited my home, and no one had chosen me. At first, I was happy to be left with my mom and sibs. I would hide. Once, during a particularly satisfying nap, I had a vision. I saw my human. I knew her when she appeared, Oh ya, I knew I was destined to be her pretty boy. When she came through the front door, it was love at first sight. I even did a back flip for her, just so she would pick me over my sister. I was four and a half months old, when I took the ride, sitting on my human's lap, all the way home. I remember licking her in all my excitement.

When we got home, I met the old lady of the house, a 7 pound Yorkie. Boy was she a crank pot!!!! Even though I was four times her size, she scared me, until we went for a walk together. I had never been on a leash before, let alone out in the big world. That day was a very exciting one for me. Lots to see, sniff, and I was so overwhelmed with joy, I just had to jump up and bite my human on the ear. Boing, boing, boing...all the way around the block.

Then night struck. I was alone in a huge cage, all by myself, howling all night long. The next day, my human took me for another ride in the car. This time we came home with collars, and one that sprayed some stinky stuff when I got too excited, or cried at night.
This went on for two weeks. Daily walks, crying at night despite the stinky spray, then it happened.

Lula Mae entered my life. She is an older woman, five months to be exact, with the curliest cream colored hair, and beautiful apricot ears...when I saw her for the first time, I lost my mind....I turned back flips, raced around the yard, in a feeble attempt to attract attention to myself. Lula Mae was much more interested in sniffing out the smells of the new backyard. When I did get her attention, I learned the reason for her diffidence...this was her third human. She was understandably scared. Lula Mae was the Little Orphan Annie of the poodle world. I tried to tell her this is a good home, good humans, and she could trust them. It took her a little while to warm up to the new family she found herself in.

Today, three months later, we are inseperable....We love walks, chew bones, play kissey face daily, eat a few flowers when no one is watching, but most of all we LOVE to race...Sometimes I let Lula Mae win, she still needs a little reassurance. Tisk, tisk not, I am no push over, when the cream colored angel gets too pushy, I put her in her place. I still have a lot of growing to do, but at 50 pounds, and 27" at the shoulder, I am slowing down. Good thing, my owner says...."I hadn't counted on a giant." Miss Lula Mae is a couple of inches shorter than I am, but she outweighs me by five pounds. I will chatch up with her soon, no worries.

We try to bring the Old Lady Yorkie into the Poodle Club, but she shuns our attempts. She gets to sit with our humans up on the chair all the time. Lula Mae and I horn in on the action every chance we get....

We have lots of things we are still very puzzled about. Now we have a voice-so stay tuned....

Our human says she has lots of things she wonders about too. We have long talks. Shhhh don't tell her, but we will keep you posted!!!!