And is he ever proud of himself, isn't he?

Poodles don't dig! They are lap dogs, refined fluffed, puffed well mannered and well groomed doggies....surely Digby must have some digging mongrel in his blood lines!
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My Lady Chablis, AKA Chabby was just looking to see what was in the bottom of that flower pot, I am sure she didn't know she would get mud under her toe nails and mud in her ears and need a bath before she could even touch the floor!
She's such a sweet well mannered doggie.
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He was just "digging" the hole for whatever you are going to plant there! Isn't that a sweet half-smile on his face? Asking you: "See, wasn't I helpful"? How could you not agree? :>)

LOL! Look at that little scoundrel... having the time of his life and so proud of his accomplishment! He's so dang cute it's hard to know if you should kiss or scold! I have two diggers myself. Izzy digs when she's hunting varmints, so I forgive her this fault as she either catches them or chases them away in the process. Jaz has dug up the same flower bed (and all the bulbs/plants in it) six times in the last twelve months... she does this when she's feeling anxious because she likes the feel of the loose soil in that bed. Grrrr. I finally built a plant stake fence to block her access.

To answer your question, "Kotex" hasn't exactly turned out to be a presciently perfect moniker... other than I don't enjoy bubble baths with either the cat or the product... but that hasn't stopped the kitty from trying to change my mind...

Linda..you still have Chabby! She is just as cute as she was several years ago.

Marda, Digby seems to be saying "How would you like such an undignified pix on the internet?" You'd best be
glad he can't use a camera...lol

As to Chabby, I only garden in containers, mostly really big ones...she would have a ball.

Delightul critters and photos... just enjoying what we so enjoy this time of year...josh

Digby is my idea of a dog. He & my dog, Crispin, could have a digging contest & see who could get to China first!

Proud little tyke M! We once named a cat Indy Joe because he hated snakes, or anything that looked like a snake (including ordinary rope sitting on the ground doing nothing). Does that count? Finally, Chabby has face for me! Love her look. The Lady Chablis. Ha, does she cook some kickin' chicken'? Cutie-pies.

My poodles have always preferred to play in the water, although Lalee considered that one of her duties was to dig up all mole hills, locate the culprit and present the wriggly body to the nearest human.

Here is a link that might be useful: A Poodle-y Past

Loving those poodle pictures! Butt shots all. LOLOL. Poodles aren't really dogs, they just dress up in dog clothing to fool humans into more cuddles.

I think Digby got on your computer, went to Ancestry.com, checked out his ancient line and decided to follow in his grand,grand, grand..........parents footsteps, farm dog in Germany, guarding, herding and catching critters which don't belong.
They are both a hoot and I wished I had them.

hmm..you may be right. He has caught 3 mice already and skarfed them down in a mini second. I thought Ferrell the cat taught him how to do it since they are inseparable but maybe it's just in his gene pool. He's a very quiet dog and DH came in a couple of days ago and said that Digby just growled at him. I asked him if he was trying to get a mouse out of his mouth. He wondered how I knew? LOL

I do believe poodles were also used to hunt truffles at one time and of course they were used for hunting, such as water fowl hunting. Poodles are amazing, smart, lovealbe, intelligent (some times too much so!) and are very loyal.
I think Digby and Chabby are just adorable!

Rags - definitely suits him. He is the scruffiest yet most charming dog I've ever had the pleasure of sharing space with.

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Rags reminds me of the Scandinavian rya pillows/rugs popular in the 70's (?). I made one but didn't buy the precut yarn, and cut my yarn too long thinking it would be more plush and posh...lol Had to trim it...josh

Rags is darling! Is he a poodle-ey pup? Or a terrier-guy?Whatever...he looks like he's full of it.

He's a terrier guy, Linda. He's enormously entertaining and if he was a person you'd want your daughter to marry him. Mellow, funny, sweet and loyal.

And Marda, I forgot to say how much I love that shot of Digby. I want to meet that dog.

I inadvertently deleted the photo or Rags so it's posted again now with a new link.

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When I was a younger woman with a house full of kids, a pet was the last thing I wanted to have anything to do with. But now I wonder how I lived without kitties under foot. Oliver and Ms. Darcy give us such pleasure just by sitting on a window sill or groveling for food. So I know the love that's in those critter photos.
I also learned something about poodles, that they were originally working dogs. I guess many if not most breeds have that background, but sometimes when one sees them all gussied up, it's hard to keep that in mind.

Poodles being hunters sure doesn't surprise me. Steve was actually looking for a standard poodle from a strong hunting line to be his bird dog before we got Izzy. He grew up with a standard poodle, and my first dog was a great big poodle/schnauzer mix that resembled a sheep dog. We both remember the strong hunting traits in these childhood dogs.

Instead, we got Izzy, the PudelPointer. (Pronounced "poodle pointer") The breed was developed in Germany in the 1880's by combining German Pudels (or possibly their predecessor, the Barbet) and (mostly) English Pointers. It turns out a little Pudel goes a long way so more than ten times as many pointers were bred into the line as Pudels.

Ya know those goofy poodle haircuts you see at dog shows? It has everything to do with their hunting past. Next time you see one of those meticulously-coiffed, be-ribboned beauties, just think to yourself "all the better to retrieve you ducks with" and giggle at the probable absurdity of this dog in its historical context with its modern owner.

Is Digby a hundred percent poodle? He looks like a dog our family had when I was younger. Charlie was half poodle (we assume standard!) and half german shepherd. He was the best dog we ever had...in a long line of dogs. We lived in the country and dogs had a fairly short life span out there through one way or another.

We had a dog named "digger", but it was his second name. For the life of me I can't remember his original name, but that is what it got changed to :) He was a doberman pincher puppy. Nobody's livestock was safe when he got loose....and neither was my mom's patio furniture. One day he dug his final hole under the fence and left. We never found him again.

Lisa

The movie, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" was popular about the time we got a miniature brown dachshund. Yep, we named her Molly. When she was only a couple of months old, she chewed up and swallowed most of a glass test tube. For a while she spent more time at the vet's than she did at home. We are talking about major problems with a sliced up gut.

She was also run over by a school bus resulting in a cracked pelvis, dislocated hip, and some more internal injuries, had serious problems with those floppy ears, got herself caught on a piece of wire digging under a chain link fence, and somehow or other had a hunk of skin broken lose from the muscles, which later died from lack of blood supply. What with all the skin trimming, operations and patch work, she was a mass of scars....but still Unsinkable. I won't mention the false pregnancies that she had twice a year that required shots to reduce the milk supply so she could walk. She lived to the ripe old age of 15 when her long spine finally gave way. Over the years, she cost us a bundle of money, but she loved going to the vet's. He was her good friend and always made her feel better.

Yep, The Unsinkable Molly Brown was well named!

Marda, I forgot what I started!! Poodles can be really great pets. Digby looks as if he has you and the rest of the world all conquered. That face could charm anyone.

We "inherited" two poodles from an aunt that had to go to a nursing home. One was an outstanding pet. The other, well, she was a b*tch in every sense of the word. Cute, but oh my goodness, I wouldn't have thought a dog could be that cantankerous!! She was one of those very tiny toys and her disposition could have been due to the fact that everything in her world was bigger and dangerous.

Lisa..yes he is full blooded with a pedigree as long as your arm. His father has several blues won in national dog shows. I'm not letting any part of Digby get shaved when he's groomed and keep him in a very short puppy cut,so most of the time he doesn't look very much like your stereotypical poodle. Here's his father.We tried for a long time to get a rescue but they were few and far between and the one miniature we finally found required a fenced in yard,even th ough we live out in the country with several acres. Well..you didn't ask for all this rambling,did you?

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I wish people would ramble more. Getting "sidetracked"is what makes it interesting.

Awww. His daddy looks very regal.

I'll ramble a little back...

I am not even sure where we got Charlie, probably the pound. Mom would give him a summer haircut, it was always an ordeal. The first couple times were really funny. She had to use scissors because outside dogs, farms, and a poodle heritage are not a good combination :) It would take her a few days before she could finish. The face was always last, so he'd look like a lion when his body was done. We had pictures somewhere. I hope my sis didn't throw them out when she went through all the photos.

Mom and dad never got another dog after Charlie. Mom was really brokenhearted when they had to put him to sleep.

Lisa

My father bought my mother a poodle when we moved to France. She was still grieving the Great Dane we had before, and it took awhile before she really warmed up to the new poodle, but the dog sure took to her and she ended up being my "Mama's" dog. Once you've had a poodle, you look at dogs in a different light. There aren't any breed I don't like, including the Heinz 57s........but poodles give you a run for your money with their clowning and intelligence. To me they are the most "cat-like" dog, and ours was known to harbor grudges and get even if she was left out of anything she thought she shouldn't be. She always hunted out something of my mother's to destroy if she was left home alone. Usually it was a comb, and by the time Skoshi was done with it, it looked like a centipede. LOL.

Oh! My! Goodness, what a wonderful poodle Digby is.
Marda, I think you've found the perfect one. He is soooooo
cute with that furry little face. Besides he's a good mouser. :0)

I'm a poodle person and Lindac's little Chabby reminds me so
much of our little Chelsea.

Y'all know we have our Sassi now and boy does she ever live up to her name.
She is a little critter but the vet says that inside that
tiny little body is a big, tough dog. She has breezed through her surgery without a whimper except for that first night and though she hasn't been allowed outside except for sitting on the porch she has scarfed up her share of ants.

Poodles are smart, funny and the perfect pet if you like both cats and dogs. If you've ever been around one, you
just can't help falling in love with them.

Michelle, I love Izzy and Jaz and they crack me up with their antics. My fist poodle was a standard named Nicky.
After him I tend to stick to the smaller poodle breeds.