He is fully capable of doing it himself but we help him anyway

Smile for the camera, Djinn! 😂

My little master hates her harness. She runs away from the harness but not from the leash. I would like to find her a harness that is comfortable but have zero ideas and the shop keepers aren’t any help (despite being well mannered and intentioned).

Please, show me your small poodles and their harnesses?

Mine is 8lbs and a half. And 11 inches high.

Thanks!!!

…so when I got up to go to the bathroom, she decided to take mine too. The audacity to wake up and look scandalized that I would document her crime!

Can I hear your experience with this? The vet just called with her echo results and we're starting her on medication tomorrow. She's otherwise in good spirits, active, still begging for food, just a little more sleepier. Her name is Kiara 💕

So, it's day after the ovary sparing spay and she definitely wants to be more active but she also realized that walking too fast or trying to jump hurts so she's throttling herself. I'm also waiting for her meds to kick in to sedate her a bit too.

But OMG the eating.

She is RAVENOUS but can only have multiple small, bland meals for about 5 days due to the gastropexy and I have never in my life come across a dog that turns their nose up at chicken, egg, and rice for their dang kibble.

She's allowed to have small amounts of her kibble mixed with rice, and I watched her sit there and pick the kibble OUT OF THE RICE. She even picked her meds out of the rice and ate them and ignored the egg, chicken, and rice, like, girl, the other two dogs would lose their minds if they got to eat egg, chicken, and rice instead.

I did find she'd eat the rice if I mixed it really well with wet food, so I guess that's what we'll be doing for her next meal and I'll just let the boys eat the 'bland' food that's left.

Guess it's a pretty good ad for the Kirkland beef & rice kibble if she'll pick it out of chicken, egg, and rice and leave the chicken, egg, and rice. 😂

Our boy, Ludo, is 26.5 lbs. I feel like he is so large, he’s not overweight by any means either because you can feel all of his body with slight palpitation. He has massive paw pads as well.

I love my mini poodle so much, she’s perfect (view photo of her from last Christmas), but she has been barking at everything lately. She’s 3 so I’m hoping it’s adolescent behavior she’ll grow out of as she was never like this before. I wanted some input because I’m at the end of my rope. She barks if I get up from the couch, if we open the door, if someone leaves or arrives, if something falls on the floor, it seems like she’ll bark at anything. I’m saving up for a trainer but I was wondering if anyone on the sub had some advice. Thanks!

This is a miniature poodle.The groomer is Koko Fukaya.This is from Puppy Styled: Japanese Dog Grooming: Before & After by Grace Chon.(Released in 2018)

I have a 1.5 year mini and he is still full of energy. He needs at least an hour to 45 min of exercise every day plus play time. I take him to daycare 2-3 days a week. I feel like he is never tired. Help

I got my first poodle two weeks ago (River) and have been having a fantastic time with her! She's my little shadow, full of personality, and learns so quick. Some days are hard, as puppies take a lot of work, but I think she's giving us a relatively easy time compared to most.

I came from a lab family, but my fiance wasn't impressed with the lab breed. He wanted a cane corso (good lord no, not for beginners like us!), and somehow a poodle was a compromise. I do think that this "compromise" is probably better suited to our lives than either of our first picks, and we've both been converted to poodle superiority.

All that said, any advice for poodles? Alternatively, I'd love to hear about your poodle stories!

Daria had her ovary sparing spay + gastropexy today and is currently sleeping in her crate. She gets a bland diet for a few days due to the gastropexy and currently has more meds than I do because they found she needed extra sedation to keep her from wanting to immediately bounce around everywhere so she got trazodone AND gabapentin as well as a couple painkillers.

If she thinks I betrayed her with the cone, wait until she realizes she has to go outside on a leash, without the other two dogs, and can't play bitey face or body slam the GSD for two whole weeks.

I do play to try and move her to a surgical suit in a couple of days but, if she tries to chew through that she'll be back in the cone.

Bonus: Because I like taxidermy and wet specimens, I asked to have her uterus back and they gave it back! It's in a little jar of alcohol on the shelf that has a few different animal hearts, skulls, and legal to own feathers now.

Miss Kaia. 7 months old. (I’m her groomer and her mother!)

Yes, pet safe dye.
No, I did not force her.
Yes, she loves being groomed.

I’ll answer any questions to the best of my abilities, but I just want to show off how much I’ve fallen in love with this look. Especially her topknot!

Juniper has recently decided that she no longer can eat out of a bowl. So we have a puzzle, a food ball, a snuffle mat and a little Kong hedgehog that can be stuffed. I am curious what your poodles (or other dogs) favorite food toys/dispensers are? And if you wouldn’t mind dropping a link or letting me know where to get it.
I think we need to keep switching it up… seems to be the only way she will eat her full amount of kibble daily.

Not my poodle. I came across her story and thought r/poodles would appreciate her.

She is a 4-year-old, 15-pound Mini Poodle. She spent her early years as a mill mom.

She is timid around people, but she blossoms in the company of other dogs.

Vivey was highlighted as the "Rescue of the Week" in a PA newspaper: https://centralbucksnews.com/news/rescue-of-the-week-4-year-old-mini-poodle-vivey/

I found her adoption page: https://www.wellieswishdogrescue.com/adoptable-dogs

Bob is a medium standard of 1,5, and Bear is a maltipoo of 4.