Get the warning signs. Know your puppy!!! Weight fluctuates up... Weight fluctuates down... Get the warning signs. Know your puppy!!! We like to weigh our puppies frequently for a few different reasons. 1) It tells us if they are getting enough to eat. 2) We can chart their growth. 3) It will help in early detection of any complications. Depending on the anticipated size of your pup, you may need to purchase a scale. Most of your [...]
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I'm not going to claim it's easy to set up a suitable backdrop for your profile photos, but lordalmighty lots of guys just don't seem to understand that a hot you in an anti-hot setting induces enough cognitive and sexual dissonance to make a man dizzy. And turned off. Classic example: a dude wearing a Terribly Butch Body Harness with French provincial furniture in the background. Or holding a toy poodle with a ribbon in its hair. Then [...]
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Who is Toy Poodle Rescue? We are a small rescue group of people who LOVE Poodles, we are getting a great reputation and are growing and taking in and adopting more and more Poodles. We also work with other small breed rescue groups with the same mentality on re-homing that we have. We are going to remain small and very personal working closely with the families that need to surrender a dog or the new family who will adopt a dog. We [...]
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Country of Origin: France has been officially recognized as the Poodles country of origin, but the Poodles earlier ancestors came from central Asia. The German variety has probably influenced the modern breed most (Poodle is German for splash or puddle). In 18th and 19th century Europe, the Poodle served a wide variety of purposes, including duck hunting, guiding, and later circus performing, from whence the modern grooming style [...]
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Breed an occasional litter (we've produced 3 pups in the last 2 years), and we're also involved in breed rescue for all three varieties (standard, mini, toy) of poodle. The ones we show and breed are minis. 10" to 15" at the shoulder, and perfect with children, especially if raised with them. They're small enough to be "kid-friendly", and sturdy enough to not get hurt easily, like a toy might. If I had a mini rescue in, and it was [...]
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Poodles, including Toy Poodles, are a generally healthy breed. Like all breeds they are subject to some health problems and diseases but the breed tends to be long-lived. Toy Poodle life expectancy is estimated to be 14 to 14.5 years, but some Toy Poodles can live to be 20 years old if they avoid health problems and are not overweight. Poodle Health Issues Poodle breeders maintain an international Poodle Health Registry so they can [...]
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Years back, we had a toy poodle, Nicole. Great dog, was as much apart of the family as anyone. One winter, at 17 years old, she got lost in a blizzard in Putnam County, NY. I had moved away and when I was called and told the story, I was heartbroken. Three days later, after the storm had broke, my folks got an unbelievable call from animal rescue. Someone had spotted a small black dog floating on a chunk of ice out in a lake miles from [...]
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So emailed with questions about age, fee, etc. (The post is now gone so I can't post it here.) Here is the email I received in response to my poodle inquiry: "The toy poodles have been sold. but i also have 3 Maltese they are almost 3months old, not neutered, pure breed, and im asking $300." I'm tempted to respond to this poster but would probably be wasting my time.Wadley AL Poodle Breeder Poodle Puppies | Marilynns Little Red
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