Kenobi You are my only hope !!

A few months after we got Jedi our 112 pound poodle(presently that is) who was by this time starting to look less like a little ape and more poodle-ish I convinced my wife to bring Jedi along on a family trip from MD to North Carolina to see my inlaws. So again she gave in to me and all five of us including Jedi hopped into our SUV and headed north. This was always a highlight in the year for me being that I really liked my inlaws (go figure). No really they were all I could ask for in an inlaw both father and mother. By the way my mother inlaw could put her foot in some food( or in more accepted terms she cooked up a storm). Well anyway we were there injoying life even Jedi because as is the case with many southern homes I saw they had a few dogs of their own many just pups themselves. Which bring me to the point of this story. One of the pups was a really friendly and extremely cute Chow mix the had named Ice Cube. Now the reason we opted to get a poodle in the first place aside from the fact that my wife had herself a poodle when growing up, but also because one of our kids was allergic to long hair dogs. Poodles have what more resembles human hair than fur so the don't tend to shed and are easy on the lungs. Well back to Ice Cube once again I pushed my wife to see if we could bring him home with us to be a buddy for Jedi especially as he require so much playing and chewing on daddy time (Kenobi you are my only hope!). And again she caved (10 yrs later I can't get her to let me win now for anything). One of the first thing we did was meet with the kids and have a naming meeting and thus was born our new pup Kenobi.

Who could have known?

In mid 2000 June or July I think it was, my wife and I decided after long discussion that it was time to go to a poodle breeder that she had been hearing good things about somewhere in Greenbelt MD. So we got in the car and took the 40min ride. Pulling up to the home we could see a small pen with some pups inside and I thought to myself oh no we didn't come all this way for these things. They were not what I expected as I made a few faces my wife explained they were golden doodles, no not what we came for. The pure breed standard poodle pups were inside. So inside we went proceeding to the back of the house we came across a litter of eight pups. My wife asked if we could test their reactions to us outside the cardboard box that they were all trying to escape from anyway. My wife found the one she wanted it was the runt of the group who as soon as he was released from the box made his way to her. She explained that such behavior showed signs of its being submissive and eager to please. Obviously she was the one with more experience when it came to dog shopping. I however had my eye on another pup on the opposite side of the spectrum. He was the biggest of the group and paid both my wife and I no attention whatsoever. My wife insisted that getting him would be a mistake and that she wanted the little guy. I fought back and she seceded. We talked briefly about getting both but budget wouldn't have it. We paid our 500 dollars and left. This pup that resembled a small ape more than a poodle had real issues with riding in a car, his throwing up a few times on the way to his new home. So we finally get him home gather the two children a girl 13 and boy 8 at the time so they could help name the new family member. The children some what with our leading finally settled on the name Jedi (yeah from star wars) . Some eight years later we tend to think Darth Vader or Maul would have fit him better as he proved to be the terror my wife warned of for at least three of his early years. He even now can still be a hand full all 112 pounds of him(no not fat, hes longer and taller than any poodles we yet to hear of or come across to date).Who could have known. I would really like too hear of any poodle to match or break my Jedi's record.