My sister used to have a couple of poodles called 'Poppet' and 'Chico'. Poppet was a small miniature poodle and Chico was a large toy poodle. They were very lively dogs.
I was also reading about a little poodle called Dandy, who in the mid 1940's lived with his owner, a woman called Virginia Copeland, who was an actress by profession, at number 13, Gay Street in Greenwich Village, New York. In the basement apartment below her lived Virginia's friend, the author Elizabeth Byrd.
They use a Ouija board to find a new husband for Virginia as her first one was awful and basically Dandy the dog welcomes a ghost like-stranger and gets covered in lilac which doesn't grow in their garden.
Virginia holds a cocktail party and a man turns up who Dandy jumps in to the arms of and he drops his gift of lilac. The man is called 'Cappy' or Major Capostosto. Virginia marries him and goes to live in Manilla, Philippines, as predicted by the Ouija board. I did look them up and found evidence of their son still being very active at a yacht club in Manilla. Virginia appears to have had ties with a theatre in Manilla too.
Dandy the poodle went with them to Manilla and was buried there. Elizabeth Byrd went back to her old Greenwich village address at 13 Gay street around 1964 and meets another lady now living in her old basement apartment - an actress with a poodle this time called Misty. They go to see the woman upstairs who lives in Virginia's old apartment and find that the woman who now lives there says nothing at all will grow in the building or the shared garden, except a plant native to the Philippines. so I think the gist of this was meant to be that Dandy was still around somewhere....
