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Puppies are inherrently figity and will definitly move or turn at the worst possible moment when you are shooting their picture.

There are two ways we use to secure our puppies:

First is using a narrow black show lead. Get behind your couch or chair and hold the pup in place with the show lead which is easily removed from the image using an editing progarm if you desire. Covering the couch with a blanket or other type of cloth helps keep distractions…

Holly barks at strangers entering our property; until we let her know that the strangers are welcome. However, her bark has always just been sort of a warning. It is simply a "Here I am and this is my house!" bark. Enough to warn off strangers but, certainly not ferocious.

Last night after midnight, Holly perceived something or someone on or near our property and she reacted quite differently. Her bark was not a warning but, an "I want to tear your head off!" bark; combined…

We all know that Doodles are among the best breeds of dogs. And we all know that the American Kennel Club considers our Doodles as "mixed breeds". However, the AKC allows some mixed breeds in selected competitions and among these are agility and obedience.

http://www.akc.org/mixedbreeds/index.cfm?nav_area=mixedbreeds

Even though the AKC relaxed its "purebred only" criteria when its…

We are co-owners of Sara Marie who is the very first female Maltese ever to achieve an American Kennel Club (AKC) Master Agility Championship. She is now known as Master Agility Champion Jule's Catch Me If You Can - of course, she's still Sara Marie to us. We don't want her to get a big head about this. It's bad enough with us having a big heads.…

Every evening I give the Maltese and Holly a light snack, Tonight two of the rescue females who have been totally afraid to come near me, came up and took several snacks out of my hand. They have been watching the excitement of Holly and our other Maltese when it is snack time and just decided they wanted part of the fun. Each great journey starts with a single small step.

Another one of the fearful trio of rescue Maltese has been accepting treats from me for several weeks…

I really don't like the quality of the imagery but, it's just not worth arguing with my wife about.

www.julemaltese.com

I just had a scare which could heve turned into a catastrophe. Luckily the catastrophe was adverted by the timely intervention of my loyal computer technician.

I bought a new computer and had the hard drive from my old computer installed as an "E" drive. Well, the old hard drive failed and froze up the entire computer system.

I had myimages backed up on an external hard drive but, not the rest of my data. It is amazing how much "IMPORTANT STUFF" is on a hard…

Judy and I did a once in a lifetime (for us anyway) trip to China this Spring and had a marvelous time visiting, Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin, Yangshuo, Shanghai and other cities. The Chinese people were friendly and open and the country was extremely interesting. If anyone might be interested in seeing my pictures of China, they are located at:

http://rpcrowe.smugmug.com/

Just scroll down the page to select my various China…

As I was cleaning out a puppy pen today, I put their bowl of kibble on the bed. Wrong move! When I turned around for the bowl, there was an empty bowl and my doodle up on the bed.

Later this evening, Holly began to wretch. Luckily I got her off the bed because she deposited a load of undigested kibble on the floor which fortunately is tile....

That's why I don't feed her kibble and stick to the much more expensive raw food diet.

We are so thankful for Holly's wonderfully mellow and calm personality. We have just received two Maltese Rescue pregnant females and Holly has welcomed them into our home. These two girls were rescued from a non-air conditioned garage in Las Vegas, NV where the temperature was 120 degrees. They had no food or water and would heve died if they were not rescued. Apparently, the Las Vegas animal shelter is terrifically over-crowded and is a high kill type of shelter; so American Maltese Rescue…

Judy just drove in from Oregon the with five puppies and four adult female Maltese (one of whom will be giving birth to her own puppies very shortly). The dogs are all in good health but, are pretty dirty but, I certainly cannot blame the previous owner who is dying for not caring for her dogs as well as they should be cared for.

I will start taking pictures of Holly's interaction with the puppies as soon as they are cleaned up. As I write, Judy is bathing them. My darling…

Holly, our year and a half old Goldendoodle, just loves puppies. Although Holly has been spayed; our work with American Maltese Rescue often provides her puppies to love and care for (see my photos for examples of Holly's interaction with little Maltese pups).

A Maltese breeder in the Pacific Northwest has terminal cancer and will soon pass away. The breeder has no one to care for her dogs so, American Maltese Rescue is stepping in to help. Judy is driving from Escondido to…

We belong to the American Maltese Association and are quite involved with rescue work. Judy was the West Coast Coordinator for Maltese rescue but, now we mostly foster dogs who come to us from shelters or from homes that no longer can or want to care for them,

Many of these dogs have been abused and several have had health problems. Most are petrified of big dogs; probably resulting from some traumatic experience with larger dogs.

It usually takes Holly no more…

It has been a little over two years since I flew from California to Texas in order to bring home a little seven pound, seven week old, Goldendoodle that we named Holly because she had been born on Christmas Day. We could not be happier with this darling tall girl who now weighs 65 pounds and is a beautiful buff color.

Holly attracts attention everywhere we go and whenever we take her to visit someone, they always remark how smart and well trained she is. She began attracting…