For Carrie: our new puppy!

Jazi is a three month old, female Havanese. She is very smart, makes good eye contact, listens, is an escape artist, has chewed up two lamp cords, already does tricks for me, is accepting leash training and drags one around, so we can control her better. She finds our miniature poodle irresistible and refuses him any peace, so we have to step on the leash to keep her away from him. She is asking to go outside for potty, gets car sick, and will start puppy school as soon as the vet releases her for exposure to the world...end of November. I'm thrilled how easily she learns tricks, because at one year old I will start her training for the READ Program in our local schools. Children will read to her, then she will do tricks for them. Our poodle was a certified pet therapy dog for nine years, and he and I visited patients in hospitals and assisted living facilities. Very rewarding to do this type of work with a beloved fur kid! Yes, we have grown to love the little trickster.
Oh, she has a cute tail that curls up over her back.

[Jenise]

Oh my god is she cute. What great color! I'm envious.

Oh my god is she cute. What great color! I'm envious.

She also has that sable color running down the backs of both hind legs, and up the underside of her tail. So when her tail is flipped up over her back, the black part blends in with her black hair, (yes hair, Havenese don't shed) and the sable part looks like she has a stripe up her back, like a skunk. She is the funniest little thing, when she wants to go poop, she zips around like some sort of motorized rodent looking for just the right spot. When she finds it, she backs up to it to do her duty. We call her our little rat mole!

Wow - That's about as cute as they get!

I'm trying to figure out what this has to do with the Food Forum. I hope this has nothing to do with Korean cuisine.

Karen, thank you! This made my morning.
Havanese make great dogs. You chose a wonderful breed. Some friends of ours have a Havanese named Lola and we fell in love with her immediately upon meeting her. Sounds like Jazi has quite the personality already. That's wonderful she will work with kids. My best friend takes her therapy dog (a long-haired Akita) to the schools to work with special needs teens. I've been thinking of getting our new lab rescue, "Princess" certified to go to nursing homes, as she seems to have a way with the elderly. Here's a photo of her with Len's Mom this summer.
Karen, thanks again for sharing. You and Gene will have a ball with her.

Mom and Princess - cropped and compressed.jpg

[Jenise]

and the sable part looks like she has a stripe up her back, like a skunk.

I've only met two Havenese before, both white, so I am unaware of the other colors available in the breed. Jazi's color is irresistable--wish I could have one. Alas, I'm allergic to Havanese.

I've only met two Havenese before, both white, so I am unaware of the other colors available in the breed. Jazi's color is irresistable--wish I could have one. Alas, I'm allergic to Havanese.

Really..what about Pooldles, Bichons? Any dog that does not shed has hair (like ours) not fur, and are great for people with allergies. The felines don't bother you?

I'm trying to figure out what this has to do with the Food Forum. I hope this has nothing to do with Korean cuisine.

It has nothing to do with food, but sometimes folks get curious, and a little variation is what makes life interesting and fun, don't you agree?

There is a Friends and Fun Forum. Duh...

It has nothing to do with food, but sometimes folks get curious, and a little variation is what makes life interesting and fun, don't you agree?

Karen-
I agree. You clearly titled the post so any casual reader should have realized it was not food related. Easy enough to avoid.
Bill

[Jenise]

Really..what about Pooldles, Bichons? Any dog that does not shed has hair (like ours) not fur, and are great for people with allergies.

That's the commonly held belief but in fact it's not true. The only breed I'm apparently not allergic to is papillons. I react to everything else including poodles and bichons, albeit less quickly than I'll react to dogs with the short oily coats like pugs, jack russells, beagles, dachsunds, bloodhounds. The Chinese wrinkly dogs are by far the worst, absolutely lethal--the antihistimine hasn't been invented that would make it safe for me to be locked in a room for an hour with one. Over a weekend I'd be dead.

And no, no problem at all with cats. Very rare to only be allergic to dogs, but that's me.

I'm trying to figure out what this has to do with the Food Forum. I hope this has nothing to do with Korean cuisine.

I was expecting a recipe, Bernard.

Really..what about Pooldles, Bichons? Any dog that does not shed has hair (like ours) not fur, and are great for people with allergies.

That's the commonly held belief but in fact it's not true. The only breed I'm apparently not allergic to is papillons. I react to everything else including poodles and bichons, albeit less quickly than I'll react to dogs with the short oily coats like pugs, jack russells, beagles, dachsunds, bloodhounds. The Chinese wrinkly dogs are by far the worst, absolutely lethal--the antihistimine hasn't been invented that would make it safe for me to be locked in a room for an hour with one. Over a weekend I'd be dead.

And no, no problem at all with cats. Very rare to only be allergic to dogs, but that's me.

It sounds like your allergist did a stellar job with the diagnosis of your allergies. When Dillan, my poodle and I were visiting patients, I'd occasionally have patients ask that I not come into their room with my partner, who had a beagle, but the poodle was OK. Then at times, allergic patients did not want any interaction with either of the dogs. I can certainly understand that. It must be worrisome for you to enter a new home and not know what type of pet lives there. Do you ask prior to going, about pets?

There is a Friends and Fun Forum. Duh...

The question was asked on this forum Bernard, therefore I respectfully answered Carrie on this forum.

There is a Friends and Fun Forum. Duh...

The question was asked on this forum Bernard, therefore I respectfully answered Carrie on this forum.

And I very much appreciated it.

[Robin Garr]

And I very much appreciated it.

I just assumed that you wanted to share with your Kitchen friends in particular. I'm not sure what put the burr under Bernie's saddle, but I'm sure he didn't mean that to be as rude as it sounded.

[Jenise]

It sounds like your allergist did a stellar job with the diagnosis of your allergies. When Dillan, my poodle and I were visiting patients, I'd occasionally have patients ask that I not come into their room with my partner, who had a beagle, but the poodle was OK. Then at times, allergic patients did not want any interaction with either of the dogs. I can certainly understand that. It must be worrisome for you to enter a new home and not know what type of pet lives there. Do you ask prior to going, about pets?

No allergist involved here, it's just a matter of keeping track of which dogs I react to. My friend Anne has a papillon and we're at each other's houses all the time, she even brings Skippy here. Before Skippy, another friend had a girlfriend with a papillon that wasn't a problem either--could spend the evening at their house symptom free. Then Bob broke up with the papillon owner and met Linda, and in moved the bloodhound: asthma in 20 minutes. Ditto Pat and Jim's border collie. Pat and Jim have a friend with a Havanese, and even visiting that dog outdoors I react quite quickly to her. I had to stop seeing hairdresser whose pug was always with him at the shop. I can be around my friend Linda's two bichons for about two hours before I have a reaction, but react I will eventually. And as for poodles it was my father's wife's poodle that made me aware that I'd acquired an allergy to dogs in the first place. It's a breed by breed thing, and though it's generally the case that hair dogs are less toxic than the others, they are by no means completely benign.