Which Poodle am I?

When our fur gets to a certain length it becomes difficult for the humans to tell us apart, especially in photographs. Of course, they are handicapped by not being able to tell who is who by sniffing bums, but that's their evolutionary loss!

Note to our humans: those metal chains are staining our necks. You need to find something we can wear into the sea that won't turn to rust. Summer is here and we intend to get as wet as possible, when possible. We may need to seek advice from Poodle Union about this!

I hope this doesn't lead to rhinestone bootees

My humans don't really do the doggie dress-up thing but the other day after our romp in the water, the normal walking human put his cap on me. I entertained him by sitting still and looking cute just long enough for a couple of photos. Then I got bored with that and went to find Mia to play with.

Babette

Video from Saturday's beach outing

This is the most the two of us have spent wading and jumping though water. Normally we sprint through the surf and sometimes jump into the waves but on Saturday, we both nearly swam! We want the humans to bring us here again. Mia and her human came to the beach this morning but there were loads of other humans and canines in the pools today - so they just had a walk together.



Perhaps we'll get lucky on our walk tomorrow!

Eden Cafe - Eden on the Bay

Dog friendly venue alert! If you can persuade your walking humans to take you to the Bloubergstrand beaches, you must visit the Big Bay area. After you've had a lovely walk on the endless beaches (which have lots of dunes to explore and things to sniff at), your humans can visit Eden Cafe for something called coffee (apparently us canines can't drink that stuff). They also provide food for walking humans - a treat if you like, for taking us dogs for a walk.

The best is that they have these bright blue water bowls, specially for quadrupeds. Will they serve us food too I wonder?

This is the view from the promenade restaurants at Eden on the Bay. Poodle picture perfect.

We think Eden on the Bay is Poodletastic!

Post 101 and a fun walk on the beach.

Wow! We have been busy Poodles! This is our 101st blog post. We do try and post regularly but sometimes our humans leave the screen lock on the computer and we can't do the CTRL+ALT+DEL thing with our paws. This hampers our ability to post as regularly as we'd like but in anycase, we've reached a blog milestone and that's something to get a crunchy tasty treat for!!

Yesterday was another perfect summer day for walking. The three walking humans took us out around midday. It was pretty hot but the tide was out and there were lovely patches of warm water for us all to play in. Sjoe! What fun we had. We splished and splashed in the water and Mia almost swam at one point.

We prefer the flat, calm water when there is a choice between that and the surf. The surf is fun too but somehow the layout of our walking beach has changed and we now get these shallow pools in the sand when the tide goes out and these are the bees knees! In this photo, everyone is going in different directions. Strange, but still fun!

The humans risked a wet camera with all the splashing but we're glad he did - so we can put these stills on our blog. Video clip to follow.

Babette

Playing in a dusty, empty room

Me playing at Wrestlemania with my big sister, Babette. Dust makes me sneeze!

Sea puddles for Standard Poodles

The other day Babette and I got to run around off leash on a deserted beach. It was so exciting! Everything is exciting for me!!! Anyway, it was a beautiful day - blue sky, hot, low tide and shallow pools of blue water that we ran through and splashed around in.

When we got to the beach today, it was like Poodle deja vu! Unfortunately, we were not the only ones enjoying the perfect summer day, so our human didnt let us off leash because he knows I will run up to other dogs and blaf at them! Ha!

Our walking human walked us through the Poodle puddles on leash. Babette jumped around a bit and I know she wanted to go crazy and run like a galloping Poodle. If only we were off leash. The human managed to take a couple of photos and a small video clip of me walking and looking around but he was scared we'd start jumping around and make him drop his phone camera thing again.

Doesn't the water look so inviting? It's a dog's life!

Mia

...and Poodlenaldo takes control of the spherical object!

Disclaimer: in order to avoid infringing on trademarks and copyrights held by the governing body of the popular sport involving a spherical object being passed without touching by hands by the people on a grassy field, references to dates, places etc. are not being directly mentioned, and thus we Poodles hope toavoid legal action (which it seems they are so quick to do with ANYTHING that could remotely be infringing on their rights during the run up to and after the event here).







It's a well known fact that next year (the one that follows 2009 and precedes 2011), there will be a HUGE field based team sporting event held in my home country. People from all over the world will be visiting us and some of these sporting events will be held in our home town that is colloquially known as the Mother City.

The sylised mascot of this event being held here in the country at the southern-most tip of Africa is a cartoon lion thingy with a spherical object used in this particular sport. I think that a Poodle would have been a better choice. Don't you?

Sorry for the shaky image. I reckon the human drank too much coffee.

Mia

1,2,3,4. Who can that be at the door?

Mia is always the first to run to the front door. She is a very good guard dog and ferocious for a small Standard Poodle. She does tend to get a fright at the funniest things though - things like sticks and bits of stuff on the beach.

Charlie the Worsie will go 'wuuuu, wuuuuu, wuuuu' from wherever he is, being too old to sprint everywhere. We don't call him F.A.T, but he leans more towards the plus size of his kind, if you understand what this Poodle is telling you....

I tend to look in at the commotion with interest, being more reserved and ladylike than my tomboy sister. Every now and then I do get all barky and excited but then, I can tell the false alarms from the real visitors.

Tabby is the quietest of the four of us. She is not a very good guard cat and will not bark when people arrive or cars drive past. She seems to think that she can stare whatever it is into submission and doesn't understand the joy of barking at all. Cats are funny things really.

Babette

Can Poodles kitesurf?

We have seen skateboarding and water-skiing animals but would any Poodle be able to kitesurf? Mia and I studied the humans today who were whizzing all over the place at the Big Bay Beach, Bloubergstrand. They wear funny suits and then there are lots of strings and a big flying thing to control.

It looks a bit difficult but the humans look as if they enjoy the water as much as we do!