My in-laws have a four-year-old standard poodle they raised since he was a puppy. This dog gets between 3-6 walks a day. There's a good reason for this. As my father-in-law likes to say, "You need to give poodles projects, or else they come up with their own."

Poodle projects …

The wheels began to fall off somewhere around Thanksgiving, if memory serves. Omicron had just made it's debut and people were starting to have second thoughts bout the upcoming holiday parties they’d been invited to. I was no different. The further we got into December, the less I looked …