With a lot of hair and some clippers ... Sandy Blackburn, author of The Everything Dog Grooming Book, started with black poodle rescued off Petfinder.com, but now has Jasmine, who is white ...

Several generations of dogs in — about 80 black, white and brown poodles — he said he saw the dogs picking up a husky-like drive to dash through the snow, while retaining their poodle essence.