Rescue Poodle Birthday Bash

This video comes via the PawsRescue channel at YouTube, and it follows a poodle mom and her nine 10-day old pups from their rescue to their first birthday bash. Looks like everyone found great homes!

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A Poodle and His Clown

It was about six months after our beloved Uncle Bob had to be put down, all the way to summertime and our busy party and picnic schedule as clowns. We hadn’t intended to get another dog, as we had rescued a little-girl mutt puppy who had been unceremoniously dropped off on the road near our driveway. We actually live at the proverbial “end of the road,” bordering the National Forest where irresponsible people come to dump off their unwanted dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. I call it “Evil Stepfather Syndrome.”

They usually die of getting hit by a car, or of starvation, or end up getting shot when they raid a neighbor’s chicken coop or trash looking for something - anything - to eat. We’d kept this puppy because she was so small, and we were dog-less. Not like someone’s big old hound or Doberman that we’d rescue if we could and turn in to the shelter. You never know why people dump their dogs. And hounds will just follow their noses out of your life in no time anyway.

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How’d That High-Dollar Dog End Up Here?

Poodle Rescue Stories

We purchased only one poodle puppy in our long career of being “Poodle People.” That was Kenya, our female black. The rest were rescues, and we’re currently on the list for more. How we managed to end up with these beautiful, dearly beloved dogs makes for some fantastic stories.

It was 1986 when Uncle Bob came into our life. A good friend was driving her contractor husband’s pickup truck toward town from Jacksonville Beach in a driving rainstorm one non-descript north Florida afternoon. In those days Beach Boulevard had entire stretches of undeveloped woodland in between intensive gated community housing and apartment complexes, strip malls and such. Just across the bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway the vehicles ahead were slamming on their brakes and sliding in the water, so she slowed way down while trying to catch a glimpse of what was causing the panic.

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