A Bit of Background

Hi, I am Dara married to my husband Alex for over 33 years and yes I am proud of that.  We have 3 beautiful daughters, son in laws and 7 grandchildren.  Our 19-year-old baby girl Alexa is still home and my poodle partner. After realizing just how amazingly smart, comforting, and overall therapeutic the standard poodle breed is, we decided to help others add these special babies to their lives.  We feel anyone struggling with anxiety or depression could benefit from one of our furbabies.  The standard Poodle is the smartest hypoallergenic dog breed there is.
     Alexa is a cancer survivor!  At the age of three she was diagnosed with leukemia and went through 26 1/2 months of chemotherapy that consisted of a lot of medication, needles and procedures along with numerous hospital stays.  She completed chemotherapy just before her sixth birthday but yet continues to deal with long-term side effects with anxiety being one of them.  In 2014 we got Alexa a little Dachshund (our 2nd favorite breed) to get her out of our bed because she couldn’t handle sleeping by herself…it worked!  Unfortunately, we lost him in 2018 because of medical issues.   After some research and a couple of failed attempts to find another furbaby we decided to buy our first standard poodle, Muffin.  It sure did not take us long to realize this breed is amazing.  Muffin immediately showed to have good genetics and became Alexa’s best buddy.  I had also been taking care of my mother-in-law with Alzheimer’s for quite some time and was dealing with some emotional and physical struggles myself therefore a few months later I decided I would love to have my own furbaby so we got our 2nd standard poodle Biscuit.  Then along came the opportunity to get my Boy Max (this 3rd poodle was not initially planned) but never have I known a dog so goofy, lovable and loyal.  He is my shadow and his love for me is very obvious.  At that point we figured 3 poodles were enough…. Well maybe… they are addicting so we added our 4th, Paisley because she was so beautiful and smart that I could not resist.  If you need a real live cuddly lovable teddy bear….you need a standard poodle.