My son picked up his new puppy at the end of June of this year. Since then, we've wondered just what kind of dog he was. The paperwork said Standard Poodle, but he was also a rescued dog and he could be something else mixed in. Since any dog with "doodle" in its name is all the rage right now, people came up to us when we were taking the puppy on a walk telling us our dog looked exactly like their Labradoodle, or other type of doodle.
A couple of people even said they thought our dog had a little Airedale Terrier in him. That actually made sense. We saw some whiskers on his face, and his snout seemed fatter, not as narrow. The past couple of months, the hair on the puppy grew and filled out. We thought he was just getting bigger, bigger legs, bigger face, bigger everything.
Turns out, we were wrong.
This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. His hair had grown since I snapped the photo. My son and wife took the dog to the groomers this morning and if they weren't there to see the transformation, I'd swear they brought home a different animal. He answers to his name, but he doesn't look like the same dog.
He's a poodle--I don't think there's any way of getting around it.
We didn't care if he was a pure breed poodle. We've all grown to love him and he us. Next time we go walking and someone says, "hey, that looks like a--fill in the blank with a doodle--dog." We'll just say, nope--he's a poodle. And we love him.
No comments:
Post a Comment