Siren has moved to the Rainbow Bridge

It was much sadness I write that my beloved Siren has left Earth. The feelings of guilt and hurt and anger are overwhelming right now. While we were on vacation I left Siren and Rumor with my best friend, who always watches them. Things went great for 3 days, my friend had just called me yesterday morning to inform me of Siren rolling horse manure and how badly he was going to need a bath. I laughed picturing him having a ball, a mini vacation of his own.

Later that evening she called me in hysterics to inform me she found Siren dead. It appears Siren got out of his kennel and one of her pitbulls killed him. That news is very hard to absorb. Siren had played with them a ton of times. I totally trusted them and they lived with her 3 poodles with no problems. Siren had stayed there mulitple times a year. I don't know what happened. I'm sure I don't really want to know either.

I miss him, I miss him licking my tears off my cheek as they roll down. Siren had unconditional love for me (and for anyone who would take it). He acted like it was the happiest time of his life each time he saw me. It didn't matter if walked around a corner and turned around. He stuck to me like glue which was annoying most the time. But right now I miss him being there. I miss the little dance his feet would do while waiting to be let out of his cage for the night. How he'd tried to sit and wait patiently for me to let him say good morning before running out the door. He'd sit and wiggle his tail thumping the floor his front feet coming off the ground as he tried as hard as he could to remain sitting. He trued so hard to make me happy every time I asked. You could look into his eyes and see all the energy he had waiting to pour out.

I'm finding it hard to go on today. I'm sure it's lack of sleep. Explaining the death to my kids is hard. All our other pets were old or sick. This was sudden and a 6 year old refuses to accept that in the wild dogs fight and death happens.. At this point I suppose it's not helping me much either. He will be greatly missed by everyone in our family, he was a good dog or at least tried very hard to be.

I'm a daddy

On May 11, I became the proud daddy of 4 silver miniature poodles. Silvia and I have 2 daughters and 2 sons. They are so cute. Mom helped shave their faces and feet last Wed. She says hopefully soon she'll have pictures uploaded on my webpage.

my hair cut

Whoa! Mom had Jodi cut my hair today. Here I thought it was my normal touch up job. But mom finally decided since I was a champion and a skinny butt, that she'd cut my hair down and work on obedience now. I'm quite short now, though still in HCC clip. Well kinda, my rosette's are stars and they are painted red/blue. It feels so weird to roll around. Even weirder to not have a gazillion bands in my hair.

Yesterday's outing

Yesterday we went to the Summer Arts Festival downtown. It was fun. Mom painted some blue/red stars on me, so people took more notice than normal. The down side everyone still thinks I'm a girl, mom has decided my show career is good enough, but can't bring herself to cut my hair yet. She says if I would gain some weight and keep it, then she would modify it some and get rid of the silly rosettes on my behind. But alas, while I like food, I only eat enough to feel full, so I'm skin/hair and bones.

I like going places, and mom seems to be taking me more places now that I'm done showing. She said I still need to work on my dog socialization though, some days I'm fine, others I'm growly. Mom says I need to learn to try not to convince dogs I'm dominant, cuz I'm FAR from it. Maybe some day I'll take that advice.

Dog party

Yesterday we went to the big dog party. It was fun. Lots of treats and people to pet me and tell me how soft I was. So many people say oh, you have a real poodle (mom says that's because I'm in show clip).It was so much fun, I don't even have a favorite part.

Another show

Mom took me, and Jodi took Silvia (my half sister) to a dog show this weekend. Mom said she wanted to show me once as a champion. We were the only 2 mini's there, but at least mom fulfilled her wish. My sister beat me, so hopefully that means she will start winning more and finally finish as well. I sure wish her a speedy finish.

Mom says if she doesn't get sick of taking care of my hair, maybe I'll go to one more show in July, one where points are involved. My hair is in an awful funk lately, so I'm not holding my breath.

What the heck happened?

Okay, for years now Mom has colored Pokey and I laughed at him. This week Mom took me to work and Jodi colored me. I am now sporting sparkling red hearts on my hips/legs and a red tail. I will admit, people REALLY took notice of me that night. People were gathered at the window staring and pointing. I even got sparkly red nail polish. I guess it's not so bad being painted...and Mom said it's just the beginning.

Santa at the mall

Yesterday I went to work with mom and got my hair neatened just a tad it was too busy for anything else. I wondered what was up, because normally I just get my weekly bath at home. Then tonight mom put new bands in my hair and after the kids got home out came the hair spray and glitter. I heard mom talking about painting my ankle bracelets green, I'm glad she changed her mind. We had to wear pajamas in order to get a free picture frame. But mom took them off after the elves saw us. It was quite fun to go to the mall. People kept saying look at the real poodle. Wow, that dog has lots of hair, etc. Mom told me we were going to meet someone new and to behave myself. I'm quite a chicken and growl at my shadow, so mom told Santa she wanted to go slow. But Santa put his hat out and I saw the fur on the gloves and I just jumped up and gave Santa a kiss. I was a litte shocked myself, I thought he'd be much scarier. Mom says I was such a good boy I'll probably get a special treat from Santa. Maybe he'll bring me some Collard Greens, I just love those.

My new favorite treat

So the other day I realized mom gives the rabbits really yummy snacks. I had to jump in the rabbit hutch and steal one (the rabbit was not happy with me). So collard greens are great. I mostly just like the stalk, it's such great fun to chew on. My mom laughs at me everytime I eat one. She's decided occassionally to give me my own, so the rabbits don't hate me for taking theirs. They get carrots too, but those are just okay. I'll only eat those if the rabbit fights me for it.

Mom gave me a new hair do. I thought maybe she'd cut it, but instead she gave me funky pigtail type things that keeps the hair out of my face. I say it looks goofy, but the hair is more out of the way.

Mom also got my CERF papers today. So she's been busy updating my other webpage to make it more user friendly. She says she should just give up.

The scary dog park

Mom took Pokey and I to the dog park. Normally I like to go places but this place was scary. I was excited in the parking lot all the dogs, just like at dog shows I thought. But then mom took me in this huge fenced area and kept me on my leash because I've never been allowed free roam with strange dogs before. I walked around, let some people pet me and some small dogs sniff me and I sniffed them back. Mom took my leash off, that was odd I've never been off leash while not in my yard or at my friend's farm. I mostly ran around and followed Pokey, checking on mom every so often. I can't believe she was petting strange dogs, she's suppose to give me all the petting and attention.

Pokey grew bored with me tagging along and begged to go to the all dog area. Oh my word, that was scary. Can you believe huge dogs just tower over you with the owner who knows where, they could eat me. I was terrified. One boxer ran at me and plowed me over and that was all I could take I was in mom's arms so fast. I'd grumble at big dogs if they jumped up to see me, mom told me I MUST knock that off. She tried to find a quiet area and put me down and it was okay, but if another dog came my way I begged mommy to pick me up. Mom says I need to learn to accept strange large dogs. So we stood outside the fence for a bit and let them sniff me through the fence that wasn't nearly as scary, I still don't like them...but I'll try to learn.