Welcome, Chuckie!

Mr. Charles the Poodle Finster, aka Chuckie!

Last night (October 22) we brought home our new little foster boy, Chuckie. He came with the name Charlie, but that's too common-and he needs a new beginning. He went from Charlie to Charles to Chuckie, after the Rugrat's character, Chuckie Finster.









Warning: he's SKINNY. Chuck is a neglect case, and he's been released for adoption byt the courts. He weighs 5 lbs, but should easily double that for a healthy weight. He's a milky chocolate color and stinkin' adorable. While he's not shy at all (he LOVES to be held) he especially loves guys. Why? Not sure. It's pretty weird. But he's super cool.








To understand how small Chuckie is...the pillow in the above picture is just a normal throw pillow. He's much smaller than it. But even better is the picture below.






Leland is sitting next to Chuckie...Leland's only 15.6" tall and ~20 lbs. Both boys are 3 years old!

Project Marietta

Our first weekend in a while traveling without Calvin was strange. Leland had Jett, but Jett is big and when LE gets the zoomies and jumps from bed to bed, Jett tackles him. Poor Little LE gets scared and stops playing.

BUT...we had another great weekend :D Leland went 4/4: 2 double Q's, 35 points (yay!), and...drum roll, please... PLACED FOURTH IN EXCELLENT B STANDARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of the entire class-only 5 dogs Q'd...and my little LE was in the top 4 woo hoo! It was a tough course-and Leland thought about teeter jumping (it was another scary teeter) but my boy did it!

Point count as of this weekend: 331 :) (We "only" need 419 points for MACHing in April!)
Double Q count: 16! YAY! (We only need 4 more for MACh!)


Go Leland :-) Next weekend is his recovery weekend...and time for me to celebrate! Then off to Grove City, followed by Youngstown, followed by Grove City again, followed by Cincinnatti...whew!

Cleveland

Everyone has rough weekends...Leland and I met ours last weeked in Cleveland. I worked 5-midnight and then drove home to crash for three hours before waking up to drive to Cleveland. Luckily I have the best driver (aka Mom) to drive us to Cleveland while I took a nap. She also bathed my little man and did an outstanding job fluff drying him :) THANKS, MOM!

Once in Cleveland, we took the whole gang out and unpacked. Did I forget to mention we went with Calvin, Calvin's mom, and Jett? Haha. It was truly a pack of poodles :)

Leland got spooked but the teeter saturday and it cost us the double Q and a LOT of points :(( But in jumpers he managed nine points!! Sunday we got the double Q and eleven points!! Our grand total for the weekend was twenty points...what we needed in one day. But hey, we're getting closer.

We are also getting closer and closer to that goal...which from now on will not be mentioned...we can't jynx it ;)

Calvin had a good weekend-earning his OA title finally. YAY CALVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm waay proud of him, too...he's my little little man :)