Showing posts with label poodle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poodle. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Party at The Pawms


Emma goes to The Pawms during the week for daycare -www.pawms.com - where it is one big party.  I am sure with her personality that she is the life of the party.  She and her best friends Alfie, LuLu and Lady enjoy playing in the water, chasing each other and playing with toys and the other dogs.  Emma adores Jeff, Tracy, Cory, Derrick, Marli, and the rest of the staff.  Each morning she lays in bed waiting for me to get ready and as soon as I pick up the keys, she is at the door ready to hit The Pawms running.  I cannot imagine how hyper and unhappy Em would be without daycare.  It is a great outlet for all of her energy and it provides wonderful socialization.  With all of this in mind, I went to Sips N Strokes last night and painted a dog partying....I put my own little touches in the painting so that the dog is a poodle ( OK so it is suppose to be Emma, not a good likeness, but close enough).  I have named the painting "Party at The Pawms" and gave it to Jeff and his staff to enjoy.  Somehow Jeff knew that there was some "sipping" involved while I was painting.  LOL  I hope they enjoy the painting half as much as Emma enjoys partying her days away with all of them.
 

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

My Baby Girl


After I lost Johnny, I decided that my next dog would be completely opposite. I went from a 2.9 pound black and white chihuahua to a 58 pound brown poodle.....low maintenance to very high maintenance....a pocket puppy (literally) to a diva that takes up half of my bed. Emma is the complete opposite of Johnny.

I thought I wanted a black male standard poodle, but God had other plans. Then when it turned out that I was getting a girl, her name was going to be Lady Gillian. Turns out my niece, Alex, had a name picked out. Even when I picked out Em's registered name, Alex, Jennifer and MawMaw all vetoed my choice and insisted she be registered as Emma Marie Key. Now that Em has been with me 18 months, I must admit that she is absolutely perfect for me and her name fits her much better than the name I had picked out.

Emma lives a pretty charmed life. She eats the best food (holistic dog food plus cottage cheese, yogurt, fresh fruits and veggies), gets groomed on a regular basis, goes to daycare, has her Canine Good Citizenship Certificate and goes pretty much wherever I go.

While life is not always perfect and things are not always the way I want them to be, God has truly blessed me with my baby girl and my 3 wonderful boys.