Thread:Dino003/@comment-35594152-20181106201038/@comment-36857645-20181107011405

Oh so you are Lina and not Sue? Okay. LOL  I thought Lina was your pen name on the wiki and Sue was your real name, since you always sign it as Sue. hmmm  Reckon I had that backwards then. LOL    I'm Val. Nice to meet you Lina. *shakes hands*   Okay, we're good now. rofl

Yes, Sugar Bear loved pampering. All my dogs I've had, all I've had to do was get the brush and/or hairdryer and they'd come running, ready to be brushed and or dried. Seriously. All my poodles in the past and then after we got Bear and Daisy, I could get my dryer out, sit on the floor and here they'd come. Hard to dry two dogs at the same time and they did not want to wait turns.

Then we got Misty Rose and Bubba, 2 more poodles. I then had all 4 crowding in for their turns. My friend took a trip up north, when she had her a poodle and another larger, poodle mix. They hated her washing and drying them. Fought her on hairdrying and brushing. Not with me. I sat on the couch to brush and dry Bear and here came her 2 dogs, wanting their turns. They got brushed every night they were with us.

She returned from her trip, her dogs all nice and purty looking. She didn't comment. (didn't expect one). But later when visiting with them, I said about her dogs enjoying brushing and drying and she didn't believe me. I said, "pass me the brush", and she gave it to me. I looked at Shultz and held up the brush, and said, "want it?" and he trotted over with the little poodle Chare' right behind. I proceeded to brush them and they just lay there enjoying it.

To say she was shocked is an understatement. :O

LOL yeah, we indulged Bear. Impossible to not do it. She loved smelling and looking pretty. She needed very little clipping, just trim up the tummy hair, clip the hair shorter behind her 4 legs (would get long like cockers are known for), and that was it. No trimming the back or the head or the ears or anywhere else. (well, I take that back.  I did trim her tail 'fronds' to keep them about 5 inches long, a nice 'fan' that curled up over her back, as in her picture.  When young, her tail was tighter curled over her back, like a full chow's is.  Was beautiful with that long silkiness of the cocker in her).

One of a kind she was. Truly, one of a kind. We chased each other around the pecan trees and bushes here on the property, and then would sit on the little hill in our yard, resting and watch the highway traffic going by. She could lay there and watch for hours on end. The neighbors across the highway, they'd see her and wave to her. She'd sit up and watch. Occasionall tilt her head back and go "ah whoo woo" at them. And sit and watch them working in the yard. NEVER attempted to go to the road. Always just sat and watched. If we were playing and chasing and she saw them out, she'd immediately just stop playing and sit and watch. They'd wave and she'd "ah whoo woo" back to them. She had a gruff, deep tone, like a bigger dog, not the normal cocker sound. If she growled, you'd swear you heard a big bad dog. Not a smaller 30 pound dog. She sounded more like a German Shepherd or the like when growling or barking. She also did not 'bark' like a cocker. She littered would "WOOF.... woof woof" then growl.

Even when just us playing... I'd say, "woof"... and she'd shake her head and say "woof woof".... then say "ah whoo woo" and "grumble"... 'exactly' like "old Grandpa Bear" on the cartoon "Hillbilly Bears". exactly like him grumbling... then shake her head. Playing. So silly.