Adventures in…

Grooming, for starters. I love the look of a cleanly clipped Poodle face. However, it’s been a while (okay, nearly three decades) since I’ve groomed Poodles, and Simon is a very wiggly puppy. Grooming has been something of an adventure for both of us. The good news is that we are getting better, and his face is mostly clipped these days. The bad news is that I regularly see places I’ve missed. Eh, we’ll get there eventually.

In other grooming news, he’s undergone a pretty radical transformation. We were both tired of sealing with soggy puppy fuzz with all the rain we were having, so he’s been sporting a Miami for the past month and a half.

Again with the “We are learning as we go along.”.

We’ve tidied up a bit.

And we are in need of a trim again.

He outgrew his car crate, so he got an upgrade.

We’ve been doing some training, of course, and he’s earned four titles already. He’s got his 2K9 and Novice Trick Dog from Do More With Your Dog, his Beginner Seeker geocaching title from GeoPup Sports, and his Foundation Skills Level 1 from All Dogs Parkour. Plus, he’s graduated from our local Petsmart puppy class. He’ll be 21 weeks old tomorrow.

And I’m trying to figure out just how on earth he’s gotten to be that big and that old already.

More adventures to come.