Richard Crowe's Blog – February 2011 Archive (4)

I can't foster or adopt a doodle because I have four resident Maltese plus five foster Maltese along with our Goldendoodle Holly.

However, I am driving up to Hesperia, CA (north of San Bernardino) to pick up a rescue doodle from the dog shelter there and deliver her to a foster home in Orange County, CA.

Watch out Richard, you don't want to fall in love with this doodle!  As the old saying goes, "If you visit the bicycle shop enough times, you will eventually…

Kobe a 5 pound Maltese and English Cocker Spaniel cross is a rescue puppy born from a Maltese mom who was found pregnant wandering the streets of a local city.  Holly is, of course, our 55-pound, 3-year old, Goldendoodle who just loves our rescue puppies and is very gentle with them.

Kobe left today with his new family for his forever home and I wanted to document how well Holly and Kobe play together.

I did not know how to post this Youtube video on the video…

We attended an all day long dog rescue event on Sunday, February 13th so Judy said she was really too tired to go out to a restaurant for Valentine's Day supper on Monday.  Instead, I bought her some potted tulips (which we will replant in our garden) and cooked her supper.  We sat down to eat in the living room (because we wanted to watch the Westminster Dog Show) and Judy had a glass of wine on the table next to her chair - just at the right height for Holly's tail.  The tail wagged as it…

All doodle owners seem fortunate that our doodles don't usually have a doggy odor and Holly is certainly free of such smells; except when we were visiting Texas and she rolled in deer poop on my sister-in-law's front lawn. She was covered in a green smelly slime. But, that's another story.

We usually send Holly to the doggy beauty parlor every couple of months and during the summer never have to bathe her between visits because she is in and out of our pool every day and a…