His Name is JUDE!

[tinkerrn]

I just happened to be lurking and found your thread. It seems you've adopted a new furbaby. I am very partial to poodles. We have lost 4 in the last year and half. The 2 tiny toy and 1 teacup we lost in one month and we lost our white standard last Christmas. We are still blessed to have an 11 yo wonderful and very energetic apricot toy. It is such a fantstic thing to adopt/rescue an older dog. Standard poodles are soo regal. I just laugh when I think of them being breed as jewel thieves.
Mine sneaks into the trash and snacks during the night. Good luck.

 

[transparant]

I'm happy for you Dawn! CONGRATS! I was heartbroken for you when Annie passed away. I hope you have many happy years with Jude

 

[DawnCt1]

Thanks, He really is a gentle, kind soul but he had totally attached himself to me. He sleeps in my room. Last night DH wasn't home and he slept on the bed. DS 25 came in the room this morning to tell me something when I was still asleep. I heard a low warning growl. That's fine. DH travels, I am not good about locking all of my doors, (I keep the french door to the deck open a lot at night). He came from a home of nine dogs and a set of twins. Mom is a vet and a breeder. She loves her dogs but a sane number for her is 5 to 7 since they live in the house with her. Jude has never been the alpha dog, lives with mom and grandmom as well as other dogs of course, so he is loving the attention. He was born and raised with a doggie door so he has to learn to ask to go out. He peed once in the house and pooped upstairs once. I showed him that I wasn't happy. DS18 says that he gets anxious when I am not home. I could crate him because he is familiar with a crate. She feeds him in a crate lying down for bloat precautions; eat, rest one hour than drink) because it is hard to do those precautions with so many other dogs. With just him I can pick up the water, put down the food, etc. Today I had two appointments so I barracaded him in half of the kitchen with chairs. It took two minutes. He was fine, no accidents, was able to look out of the window, etc. I think I will stick to that for a while and consider crating as plan B. Also, I can let him have the run of the yard as long as I am outside. He doesn't know the bounderies yet but has excellent recall. He will stop chasing a squirrel or a rabbit if I say, "Jude, Come". I have an invisible fence installed so I could train him to that. My thinking is that he is adjusting to a new house, he is 8, shocking him would be traumatizing when he is so new. If I can keep him off of the fence since he has such good recall, I just may. If he were 2 or 3, I would feel a bit different. Any thoughts? Any thoughts on any of my concerns. Also, he is very smart. Annie was very smart. Annie remembered the names of dogs that she was in puppie school with 8 years before. The boys would like me to change his name to Jack from Jude. I think "Jude" is really who he thinks of himself as. Any opinions on that?

 

[DawnCt1]

Oh yeah, really, really cute. He LOVES his stuffed animals. He came with a red stuffed lobster, (looks really good against white hair) and didn't put it down. He doesn't chew them. He carries them. I took him to petco and he picked out a plaid and corderoy duck, he likes him. He also likes the blue mouse I bought him. He carried the duck two miles the other night on a walk. He didn't put it down until the neighbors stopped to greet him. DH picked it up for him and he took it right back. Annie and in fact, all of the females in her family shredded every stuffed toy. The Vermont chew toy frisbee lasted the longest, about 3 weeks.

 

[swea_pea1]

DH's name is Jude so I'm kind of partial to that name. It means "one who is praised" so it sounds perfect for your sweet furbaby.

 

[momrek06]

I really like JUDE..it is such a different a name for a dog, hence the reason I find it rather unique. Coming into your wonderful family at his age is also unique...KEEP the name of JUDE!!! Now if the guys want to call him "JACK"...that could be like a nickname for him...it could be THEIR name for him...HECK, we HUMANS all have loads of nicknames yet we still know our given name as I think Jude (despite the boys calling him Jack)will still know that his name is JUDE!!!

He sounds as though he is settling in nicely ....I wanted to ask...was that ok that he growled at DS? Were you concerned with that at all?

Any pics yet, Dawn!

GOOD LUCK WITH JUDE!!! He is a verrrry lucky dog!!!

 

[DawnCt1]

GOOD LUCK WITH JUDE!!! He is a verrrry lucky dog!!!

Jude it is. My PC crashed. I have the email system on that which interfaces with Olympus Master. I have to figure out how to interface the Apple with the Cox. Or I could down load the soft ware from the Kodak and see if it works with AOL. Olympus doesn't work with AOL. When DH is home I will have him do that. I have no patience for stuff like that. I can't tell you how long it took me to get the pix in the signature and then to size it.

 

[minkydog]

I can just picture Jude with his lobster. Minky walks around with a pink bunny all the time. It looks funny because he's so big, a big black standard poodle with a bunny in his mouth. So intimidating.

I'm glad your keeping the name. i think Jude sounds regal and standards are definitely regal.They are a cut above the rest. Once you've been deemed worthy by a Standard Poodle, you can hold your head high and know that you have earned the title of Master.

 

[robinb]

I'm glad to hear that you ended up bringing one of the poodles home. I can't wait to see pictures!