alright when i was 5 or something i wanted to get my ears pierced, and so naturally i went to claires. i survived my encounter and for some reason they gave me this prize..thing? it was a little poodle figurine that youd put on a cake or something. i dont really know why they gave it to me. but from then on out my fate was sealed. i really liked poodles. here's a photo of some poodles from my childhood. there were.... way more poodles. most of them have been lost to time.

so when it came time to make the man himself, i just kinda drew a poodle guy and went. yeah, him. it all comes full circle. im shocked it took so long to make a poodle character but to be honest, tony and dean were the first furry characters i made where i told myself i could be as indulgent as i wanted to be and boy did it pay off. still rotating them in my head like a rotisserie chicken to this day