After
doing a lot of research I decided I wanted a black female
toy poodle to have for companionship and to do trial and
obedience Work. I looked at lots of litters but they were
either too expensive for my budget or the conditions where
the pups were living were not at all nice.
I gave up for a while, then my daughter
in law who had a 16 year old male white poodle decided
to try and mate him to her uncles 2 - year old chocolate
miniature poodle. Nothing was said to me in case it didn't
work but it did!. There were five in the litter and Sasha
was the blackest. At six weeks of age she arrived at my
home inside my sons coat with just a little nose peeping
out, and so started our love affair.
We can be our dogs worst problem and
so it happened with me, she was such a little thing I
carried her everywhere, which I now regret because as
a lot of you know, Sasha does not like dogs coming into
her space until she gets to know them. We have gotten
the C.D. with good marks but found its not for her, she
wont retrieve the dumbbell at a trial, so we tried agility,
which she loves but I am not able to run, so we started
doing NADAC where we have lots of fun.
Through VCA and NADAC Sasha has two walls
of ribbons and trophies, she loves running with the dogs
at tracking, but that is only for fun, she loves her friends
to come over to play but makes sure they go home with
their mums. We have gone back to tricks again, we had
to give it away for a while because Sasha thought she
could heel on two legs instead of four, and when going
for her CD she decided to do a bow in the stand stay and
stayed that way until she was released. The judge of 25-
years Lyn Decka said she had never seen it happen before.
So much for wanting a black poodle. After
Sasha's first clip grey started to appear first on her
back and front legs then gradually all over, so her colouring
is different to other poodles. She loves people especially
the grand children she has a special squeal / bark when
she sees or hears them coming. She is my mobile doorbell
and much loved fur child.
Over the years she has acquired many
soft toys from the grandkids, but she doesn't keep them
for to long, she loves to de-stuff them before hiding
them in strange spots. The lounge room often looks like
it has been snowing. She doesn't touch my stuffed toy
dogs or teddies or anything else of mine so I can’t
complain. She is my much loved and very spoilt fur child.
