Month: May 2025
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The Endocrine Cost of Convenience: Rethinking Routine Spay and Neuter in Dogs 🧬
Read More: The Endocrine Cost of Convenience: Rethinking Routine Spay and Neuter in Dogs 🧬For decades, spaying and neutering have been considered the gold standard of responsible dog ownership. Guardians are told that early sterilization prevents cancer, calms behavior, and helps dogs […]
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The Journey No One Sees: The Sacred Life of a Breeder
Read More: The Journey No One Sees: The Sacred Life of a BreederWhen people think of breeders, they picture smiling faces, wagging tails, ribbons neatly lined on the wall, puppies tumbling over each other in the golden light.They picture abundance […]
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The Secret Language of the Fancy: Let’s Decode It Together ✂️🐩📚
Read More: The Secret Language of the Fancy: Let’s Decode It Together ✂️🐩📚Maybe it’s the anticipation for tomorrow (hello, Breed Day!), but I figured it was the perfect time to get ourselves ready—not just with hairspray and coffee—but with a […]
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Beyond ALT: What Your Dog’s Liver Is Trying to Tell You
Read More: Beyond ALT: What Your Dog’s Liver Is Trying to Tell YouHow to Read Between the Lines of Bloodwork—Even If You’re Not a Vet Every time someone sends me their dog’s bloodwork asking, “Does this look okay?”—I pause.Not because […]
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She Is the Standard: Honoring the Poodle Bitch ✨Reflections from Bitch Day at PCA 2025
Read More: She Is the Standard: Honoring the Poodle Bitch ✨Reflections from Bitch Day at PCA 2025Today was Bitch Day at PCA.And if you were watching closely, you saw something deeper than ribbons and applause. You saw definition. You saw type made visible. You […]
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She Is the Standard: Honoring the Poodle Bitch ✨Reflections from Bitch Day at PCA 2025
Read More: She Is the Standard: Honoring the Poodle Bitch ✨Reflections from Bitch Day at PCA 2025Today was Bitch Day at PCA.And if you were watching closely, you saw something deeper than ribbons and applause. You saw definition. You saw type made visible. You […]
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Measuring Up: Reflections from the Ring
Read More: Measuring Up: Reflections from the RingThere’s a particular energy at a Poodle specialty that’s hard to put into words—a quiet buzz, a current of anticipation, and a collective focus unlike any other show. […]
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Come Along on This Journey With Me ✨
Read More: Come Along on This Journey With Me ✨As we get ready to watch Poodles in the conformation ring today, I’m reminded just how much there is to learn—and how exciting that learning can be when […]
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Christmas in April: A Day Spent in Service of the Poodle
Read More: Christmas in April: A Day Spent in Service of the PoodleThere are moments when the noise of the world fades away and something clearer, finer, rises to the surface. For me, one of those moments came today at […]
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✨In the Presence of Greatness✨
Read More: ✨In the Presence of Greatness✨Where Champions Rise and Legends Never Fade The first time I stepped into the PCA arena, I didn’t breathe—I held my breath without realizing. It wasn’t nerves. It […]