It's probably hard for any of us to give a truthful response, though, since your description here doesn't really tell us how you're going to describe the dog, etc. Also, I nearly gave you a list of all my associations with poodles, which yes, would have included the devil, but it was hard to know which one would have been uppermost in actual reading of the actual scene!

As for your questions, um, my impressions wouldn't exactly change through 1, since I'd still be expecting the poodle to be fired, and this would be even more intensified by 2, whereas if there was a 3, I would scowl and try to dodge the falling anvil and wonder if this character who can travel between fictional words doesn't actually do any reading, himself. So, depending on his responses there, I might also take against him a bit.

It's hard, though, to try to estimate the reaction to something without knowing how it's presented! Word choices can make a huge difference.