My girls enjoying their Christmas presents ๐ฅฐ๐ค๐ค๐
Merry Christmas from Grey Manor ๐
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Doug and Maple enjoying some inside time, two in the house is much more manageable then 9!
I woke to a couple of escapees this morning, thatโs when you know itโs time to level up to the big outside enclosure!
Puppies were pretty active tonight so they came out for a bit of running around and family time, this age is the absolute cutest!
The milk bar is open and lip- smackingly good!
Needs sound ๐
Luna is my worst walker on lead but loves a good off leash walk.
We made it to the top of Cooleman Ridge the other evening. Beautiful views + a gorgeous black lab ๐ค
Working 9 to 5!
Thereโs always a lot of cleaning to be done when puppies are around.
Lunch - enrichment feed. Puppies learn so much at this age and thereโs a lot of confidence building that happens. We like to encourage exploration and play through the positive reinforcement of a Labradors favourite thing - food. This also stops meal times from being boring! As Labradors are so good driven,
It can be used in different way to encourage the kind of behaviours we want. For example, let the โbig girlsโ out to help clean up and to break down any food aggression. This also gets our pups used to sharing and feeding along side other dogs. We use go slow bowls, foraging, hide and seek to get our dogs thinking and curious.
** poop alert
But a great example of progress. I came home today to a relatively clean inside space and all poop outside!! It really doesnโt take long for Labradors to catch on ๐๐ฉ
Admittedly, Iโm still getting mess overnight inside as they seem a little precious about doing their business outside in the dark - which is fair enough!
All puppies have caught on to the dog door ๐
Itโs always a wonder to see how small they come into the world and how quickly they grow.
Labradors generally double their birth weight within the first week, and continue to double their weight each week after that.
We try not to intervene with the nursing schedule that mama establishes but we do weigh each puppy daily for the first 10 to 14 days to ensure everyone is gaining nicely.
What happens if a puppy loses weight?
We put them on a priority feeding schedule, this means we give them a little uninterrupted time with mum and when all pups are feeding, we put them on one of the โbig boobsโ to ensure they get a good milk flow.
We also make sure mama is eating and drinking weโll herself, we give her lots of extra food, love and support - her happiness rubs off on the puppies!
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Iโm not sure how our beautiful mama to be is getting any sleep with all this wiggling and jiggling going on inside!
Not long to go now!
4x dogs v 1x ball ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ๐พ
The bog of eternal stench!
Happy girls ๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐
I love how chilled Ella is in this clip as chaos happens around her ๐
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Note: no girls were in season, no naughty business happened ๐
Chase and Lola bumping into each other at puppy pre-school ๐ฅฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ถ๐ค
The labs being crazy and Tilly being a lady ๐
How gorgeous is Jessie with her pups!
The temperament of our mums is vitally important as it flows down to the temperament of our pups.
Jessie is happy and relaxed with her puppies. She is content to sit, feed, play and watch over them. She checks in when their play gets too rambunctious and wonders around the garden keeping an eye on them exploring.
If she was growling and guarding the toys, the puppies would learn this behaviour. If she was unhappy and barked at every visitor who came to the house, got nervous at loud noises then the pups would also learn to react in this way.
But our girls are relaxed, happy, well rounded mamas which is vitally important to us and our breeding program.