24/04/2026
Day 5 - poodles 🐩
I’ve been obsessed with poodles since I was about 5 and we got our standard poodle Sammy. He arrived as a small bundle of fluff and I adored him, but he kept growing and I wanted “a little poodle”.
I asked mum and dad every day for about 6 years if I could please have a little poodle. On my 11th birthday they caved and got my Bobby - a miniature poodle (medium-sized). He was my soul-dog until he died when I was in my early 20s.
I then had a few years of no poodles and they were dark years. Eventually I got myself Rosie & Rhubarb for my 30th birthday gift to myself, and they were my babies, infinitely more spoilt than my human children when they later came along. Losing them to old age is still incredibly painful, a grief you can only really understand if you have truly worshipped and adored your fur babies.
Right now I have these three idiots 😆 all pre-loved and a right handful. But I just love them, I feel naked without poodles in my life. I will always have poodles, they’re just my thing.
Do you have a favourite dog?