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Personality: Thanks to their stylish appearance, poodles get a bum rap for being vain and self-centered. In fact, Poodles -- whether toy, miniature or standard -- are one of the people-friendliest of all breeds. They love to please their owners and they are great with children. Originally bred as hunting dogs, they enjoy vigorous play and making mischief. Believe it or not, scientific studies have posited that the poodle is the smartest of all breeds!

Grooming: One look at the poodle's striking, full coat, and you assume that this pooch requires extensive grooming, right? Well, not entirely. A poodle's coat is made up of a single layer of hair-like fur that doesn't shed too badly. Because of this, poodles are considered a relatively hypoallergenic breed of dog. Though poodles that are kept for showing may require hours of maintenance per week, a pet poodle only needs to be groomed every six to eight weeks. Either way, poodles do customarily require a "clip" (basically, a haircut) to prevent matting and clumps of unsanitary hair. Clips can be administered by a professional groomer, although with practice, any pet owner can master the basics.
    

Lorain County Animal Emergency Center


They're unlikely friends, but when a 90 lbs. Rottweiler became stranded in the middle of a dark Ohio road, her tiny best friend, a 9 lbs. poodle, refused to leave her side.

Veterinary assistant Jody Wetzig was working Monday night at the Lorain County Animal Emergency Center when she received a phone call from a woman who had spotted two dogs sitting in the middle of the dark, two-lane road. One was a Rottweiler whose leg appeared to be injured. The other was a small, black poodle who was sitting right next to her bigger friend. The woman didn't know what to do.

"Normally, we don't take in strays," Wetzig explains to Paw Nation. "But if they're injured, we'll try to help, so we told the lady to bring the Rottweiler in."

When the woman arrived with the dogs, she had a touching story to tell. "The woman said that the poodle would not leave the Rottweiler's side," Wetzig recounts. The little dog stayed close as the woman and a passerby eased the Rottweiler onto a blanket. When they loaded the dog into the car, the poodle jumped in too.
    

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Celebrity pets keep going MIA, but this time there's a happy ending.

Brooke Burns, former "Baywatch" star and co-host of Fox reality game show "Hole in the Wall", was devastated when her black Maltipoo Max went missing last week, just weeks after Jessica Simpson's Maltipoo was snatched up by coyotes.

Burns went so far as to hire FindToto.com, an AMBER Alert-type service that calls neighbors in the area to inform them of a lost pet. (Simpson also hired the service, to no avail.)

Fortunately, all Burns needed was her trusty groomer.

According to TMZ, Burns' groomer mentioned Max's disappearance while chatting with another client -- and it just so happened that the client's neighbor had just found a black Maltipoo. They put two and two together and Max was soon reunited with Burns.

Max's groomer definitely has it!

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Joan McFadden loves everything about poodles. "Their personalities are delightful," she tells Paw Nation. "They're just wonderful dogs." And she would know -- McFadden has been breeding poodles since the '80s.

In 2001, McFadden's poodle, Champion Unique Reach for the Rainbow, won Best of Variety at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and went on to win second place in Group competition. So it only made sense to ask McFadden to help us come up with a quiz to find out if you, dear Paw Nation reader, love and know poodles as much as this member and past president of the Delaware County Kennel Club.

How Well Do You Know Poodles?

In which country did the poodle originate?

  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • England

Which size of poodle is recognized by the American Kennel Club?

  • Toy
  • Miniature
  • Standard
  • All of the above

Which group does the poodle belong to?

  • Non-sporting
  • Toy
  • Non-sporting and Toy
  • Miscellaneous

The poodle was originally bred to perform what function?

  • Lap dog
  • Vermin catcher
  • Herding dog
  • Water retriever

To qualify as a Toy poodle, it must stand no taller than how many inches at the shoulders?

  • 10 inches
  • 8 inches
  • 6 inches
  • 5 inches

What was the original purpose of the



Learn more about your favorite breeds at the upcoming Meet the Breeds event in New York City on October 17th - 18th. For more information, visit MeetTheBreeds.com.
    

"Mom, why do we look so different?" Photo: John Nguyen, Ross Parry Syndication

Eight is more than enough pups for new mom, Rosie.

What makes the birth even more special is that despite the white poodle's lack of pigment, all eight of her puppies have full coats of black hair. The litter of four male and four female pups was the first for Rosie, whose full name is Sukanto My Fair Lady, writes the Doncaster Free Press.

Rosie's owner, a retired nurse named Carol Marsden, delivered the first three puppies at home before Rosie's breeder arrived to help for the remainder of the seven-hour delivery. The eight puppies take after their father Alfie, a black pedigreed poodle whose official name is Kertellas on Easy Street at Montravia. The boy pups have been named Duke, Leo, Shadow and Victor, and the female puppies Belle, Duchess, Lucy and Tess.

It may seem like a unique feat, but Joan McFadden, a member of the Poodle Club of America and the Delaware County Kennel Club in Pennsylvania, explains to Paw Nation that the occurrence "is not terribly unusual."

"I've had that happen," McFadden tells Paw Nation. "I had a white champion poodle give birth to eight black puppies when she was bred with a black male poodle and it was kind of amusing to see." McFadden, who's been breeding poodles since the 1980s, knew it was a possibility because her white poodle had a black poodle in its lineage, and the black male poodle had a white poodle in his lineage.

"It makes for awfully cute pictures, I'll tell you that," laughs McFadden. We'll say!

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There are folks who put bandanas on their dogs, and folks who dress their dogs up for Halloween. Some folks put sweaters on their dogs in the winter. Some folks enter their dogs in dog shows. Depending on your outlook, these things might be cute, or they might stretch the boundaries of good taste. And then there's "creative poodle grooming," which surely stretches the boundaries of good taste, snaps those boundaries mercilessly, and then charges far, far beyond those boundaries.

Check out these pictures captured by photographer Ren Netherland from Creative Grooming Shows across the U.S.

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Creative Poodle Grooming
Pandas are endangered. If the worst happens, ship this fellow to the National Zoo and no one will be any the wiser.
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Creative Poodle Grooming

    Pandas are endangered. If the worst happens, ship this fellow to the National Zoo and no one will be any the wiser.

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    Peacocks are supposed to be proud, but we're sure this is the least proud this peacock has ever been in its whole life.

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    Putting this image on the packages will reduce the the rate of cigarette smoking more than any health warnings or tobacco tax hikes possibly could.

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    Haven't we done enough already in this country to desecrate noble and ancient Native American traditions without this travesty adding to the pile?

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    If you have a child who's been pestering you for a pony, there is a zero percent chance that this solution will satisfy them. Back to the drawing board!

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    If this is what's going to crow me awake in the morning, then take me away, Mr. Sandman, and never let me wake up.

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    This is why Wavy Gravy warned you not to drop the brown acid.

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    We've seen Pirates of the Caribbean a bunch of times and we don't remember Captain Sparrow ever wearing Uggs.

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    The person who groomed this one was the kid who woke up on the morning of the science fair and threw his whole project together in the half hour before the bus arrived.

    BARM, Fame Pictures

    Remember the part in Peter Pan when Peter Pan banished Tinkerbell? I don't know what just made me think of that...

    BARM, Fame Pictures


    


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