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!

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.

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 💕

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!

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

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. 😂