Well it has only been 8 months since I posted last

Want some updates?! Well Little Miss Winnie is 15 months old these days... how that happened I am unsure. In case you were wondering her diagnosis came back as "Pelvic Bladder". Wondering what that means? It means that he bladder is located too far back in her body....some where over her pelvis as opposed to being in her abdomen. She is on PPA which somehow helps her to maintain bladder control. When she started it she had to take it 2x a day. After her first heat we were able to wean her back to 1x a day and for the most part that is successful. The heart murmur turned out to be just a scare .... the eye lash thing well we had 1 false alarm in which I rushed her to the Veterinary ophthalmologist in San Mateo for an emergency visit before out week long trip to Portland. Luckily it was just an eye infection and not an in-growing eye lash.
In February we took Winnie and Dolce on a vacation to Portland. She was such a trooper! Great in the car, great in the hotel room. She handled the total upheaval to our routine very gracefully. Running her in the woodsy parks of the Pacific NW in Puppy coat was an exercise in futility.

She had her first conformation show about 5 months ago. All in all it was a great day. I thought that Winnie did a great job in the ring and showed very well. I was incredibly nervous so didn't show her to her full potential but I am pleased with our day. There were 3 bitches in our class (9-12m) and we took 3rd place.

After Poodle judging I had a handler evaluate Winnie as a possible client

Her opinions about Winnie:
seems to have a great personality and loves everyone
seems a little long in the back (but she said that might be her hair cut)
would ideally have a little more neck
was "down in the feet" (she said that this might be from stress. When another Poodle person evaluated Winnie she was delighted with her nice feet - this was just before her 4th month birthday though)
was a bit too shallow in the chest (She said that it *could* be age related but she thought that Winnie was done growing)
She didn't specifically comment on her movement but didn't seem to find fault with it
has nice coat TEXTURE but needs A TON more hair
has a really nice face (I got that from other pro handlers too)
has many nice attributes but others she would change (see above)


More later.... this is one heck of a needed catch up...