A Day Out With The Dogs

It was going to be a nice day so they said. (who are 'they' anyway?) Well, Dianne and I had already left home to pick up a couple of things and then take the dogs for an outing. So when it clouded up and threatened rain, we sucked it up and kept on going.

Fortunately, as we got everyone out of the car, the sprinkles stopped and we took a nice, leisurely walk half way around Bog Pond on Florida/Savoy Mt. The dogs were in their glory and Dianne and I had a lot of fun taking shots of them. There was chase games, and a little water play, and big discoveries such as Canada Geese, nice muddy spots that a large moose had walked through and the dogs thoroughly enjoyed running through.

Did I ever tell you how long it takes to groom one standard poodle? Pfffft! So we have a full day of cleaning our dogs up and grooming them back out again.

Dianne with Taffy:















Billy fell in! LOL


















Dianne doing tricks with Amazing Grace




















Jester, NOT THE FIRE PIT!!










What's that crazy noise I hear?




















Oh, oh! A very angry Canada Goose!

















OMG! Taffy, whatever happened to you? LOL




















Saw this on our way and had to stop to get some pics.


















After our hike we took the dogs (and us too, of course) to Burger King for some much needed nourishment and drink. The dogs just love chicken tenders. Then it was time for all our fur balls to pass out in the back seat.

And, yes, a good time was had by all...

New Baby Taffy

We purchased our new baby standard poodle last week. She is ten weeks old and her call name is Taffy. Her AKC name is Wyspinook Dancing With Magic of Leatherstocking. Now there's a mouth full. LOL She is a beautiful apricot with and angelic face. Don't let her fool you though. She is a spitfire. Nothing like Billy. She comes from a home that breeds pet and show line dogs. She has the 'show me' attitude which is very cute and very annoying all at the same time.

Taffy is a mamma's girl for sure. I can't move without her being right on my feet. She has stolen my husband's heart as well.

Taffy already has several nicknames like Taffer, Tafferoo, Taff, Taffdoo, beauty, little love, and so on. Whew! I'm getting too old to keep up with all of this.

Taffy is my baby but she was added to Wispynook as part of our breeding program and she will go into show as a puppy at six months.

Wispynook is my sister, Dianne's, kennel name. She has had dogs for 30 years and has been breeding and finished some of her Brittany Spaniels in the past. We found we loved the poodle breed and decided to buy puppies that we would co-own and do the show and breed thing as well as bringing them to visit the sick. It is quite a site to see us coming with five poodles.



Billy and Taffy live with me. Dianne has Billy's sister, Grace, a silver poodle a.k.a. Wispynook Amazing Grace, and a lovely chocolate name Angel, a.k.a. Wishpynook Angel Gabriel. She also owns a toy poodle named Court Jester and he sure is. If there is going to be trouble, he's in the middle of it or instigated it!


Pretty profile after grooming











DON'T LET THOSE EYES FOOL YOU!!


Couldn't you just squeeze her?