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Thought you might like to see some recent pics! :) As you can see, Archie is quite loved around our household! He is sooo friendly and loves everyone he meets, including the vet! I can barely get him out of there. He is also super smart and knows "sit", "down" and "shake." Alan taught him in no time at all! He amazes us with what he can do. We love him very much! Still working on the nipping but definitely getting better. He is good with car rides now and enjoys going where we go. He's really a wonderful addition to our family and we are very happy with him!

Things are going really well with Archie - we all love him sooooo much! He is just so sweet and gets so many compliments from others on what a good, sweet dog he is. He is so good natured! One of Alan's co-workers told us that if we ever wanted to give Archie up, they would take him because they love him so much. We said no way! I love when he is sleepy and I sit next to him and he just collapses onto my lap. :) He is getting so big! He LOVES to eat cicadas when we take him outside. He also has a couple neighborhood doggy friends that he plays quite nicely with - the other standard poodle Louie and a Wheaton Terrier, Roscoe. He adores them both, but just loves all other dogs and people - he is just the friendliest little guy! He is so smart and of course he definitely knows him name by now. I might have told you this before, but he does sit, down, shake, and other paw. He still sleeps in our bedroom in his crate and seems to enjoy being close to us. He is able to sleep 7 or 8 hours before he begins to whine to go out. He has never once gone to the bathroom while in his crate. As soon as he is completely housebroken, we will let him sleep in one of our bedrooms on a dog bed. We are excited to start training classes in a couple weeks - we can walk there, it's right in our neighborhood! Anyway, just wanted to give you another update. We feel very lucky to have gotten such a wonderful dog... Thank you so much!

Just a quick hello to send you a picture of our beautiful girl (who is growing by leaps and bounds). She is a rascal.....and so smart.

Will send more pics as time goes on.

Here is an update of our creme girl. Here are a couple of photos of Rosie. one from a Thanksgiving time grooming and a more recent one of my two girls (old and young) watching me at my desk.

Hi Judy! Nice to hear from you! Raffi's doing great- happy, healthy and HUGE! Her vet hasn't ruled out her reaching 70 lbs! She and her big sisters are a closely knit pack. When I whistle for them Raffi is usually the first to come bounding in. I'm madly in love with her.

The Apricot Poodle in the middle down below is an update of Raffi at Thanksgiving time.

he is laying on my foot as I type this . he loves the cool of the downstairs, been swimming a few times but not really that big on it yet. did some floating in the pool with mom , seemed rite up his alley. Going to download pic from our camera later will send some for you. He is very a smart dog and knows what he wants and when he is messing up, but just like all kids just can't stop himself sometimes. :) We love him he is just the kinda boy we wanted. He did have his first trip to our groamer last week and has a new puppy cut going on, all our friends think he is just the cutest thing going.

did you get the photos I sent of Santanna? He is swimming now and does a great job at it. we are teaching him where to go to get out of the pool. he has the electronic door down pat now. although he is a bit late using it sometimes but he is getting much better, almost there with the potty training. He has been out of his kennel now for 2 nights and we have had no problems with him chewing things up. He really likes to attack his uncle Mo and holds back nothing when doing so. mo is gentle with him ,I can't believe what the little guy gets away with. He made hi 1st. social visit to the ER romm where Barb works and was a big hit. Growing like a weed. (Santanna is the smaller of the two right now.)

another update:

Here is an update on Santanna this November.

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