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| Name: |
Louise
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Age: |
Six years old
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| Gender: |
Female |
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Standard Poodle
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| Home: |
Columbia, South Carolina, USA |
Why
Lady Louise is special could be a book. Louise is a rescue poodle. She had lived in four places with her sister Thelma before she got to me at age twenty months. Those living arrangements included:
- the home of the breeder;
- the home of the woman who purchased Louise and her sister and named them Thelma and Louise. Her life became difficult and she had to give them up for adoption:
- they went to the Charlotte Humane Society where Thelma and Louise lay on the floor to die. So bereft at having been left at the shelter, they quit eating and drinking;
- Carolina Poodle Rescue - the Charlotte shelter contacted a woman active in dog rescue who took Thelma and Louise to Carolina Poodle Rescue. Thelma, now named LuLu, lives in North Carolina, with a very lovely woman with whom I regularly correspond.
A former journalist, I am the author of a children's mystery series, The
"Shandon's Ivy League" Mystery Series, that follows the adventures of a
group of pets that solve crimes. The series was inspired by another rescue
dog named Ivy. When Ivy died, I adopted Louise.
Louise goes to schools with me to promote reading and writing. The children
adore her, and she adores them. She will stand at the door after a school
"assembly" and let every child pat her and hug her. It can be 50 or 400.
Louise is patient and loving. I adopted Louise on a Saturday, and she went
with me on the next Friday for our first "book event" at a library. She was
the center of attention, of course, and she loved it! And she loves
dressing up for events, right now is March Madness of course!
Louise will have her own book later this year! Louise and I have recently
taken up canine freestyle dancing, and we visit a nursing home, too, where
my Dad lives. The residents adore her. In keeping with our desire to
promote reading, grammar, books and literacy, Louise now has a blog:
ladylouiselanguagelessons.com. She is the first Standard Poodle to have
a blog devoted to all things related to literacy. We are beginning to
introduce the blog to schools and are developing a curriculum for it! It is
becoming recognized and is fun.
Best of all, even without the books, blog or other things that we do,
Louise is adorable, sweet and loving and incredibly smart. She figured out
that she could push a chair to the refrigerator and take food off the top.
I discovered this when I came home and found a box of four small croissants
and twelve bite-size cinnabon rolls missing!
See more images of Louise!
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