Renovatichi Miniature Poodles and Cocker Spaniels

27/02/2025

25/02/2025

At all times of the year, but especially during the current period with sheep either heavily pregnant or with lamb at foot, it is essential that you keep your dog on a short lead irrespective of how well they normally behave around livestock.

For more information:
https://nationalsheep.org.uk/for-the-public/culture/sheep-worrying/sheep-worrying/


National Sheep Association NFU - National Farmers' Union

22/02/2025

A busy day for the Poodles! Starting with Lottie Biscotti visiting our local care home, followed by training practice at Chambers Farm Wood where they all did really well! There's always lots of play and rewards in our training sessions to ensure the dogs are having fun as they learn :-)

19/02/2025

There’s a huge amount of arguments between different training methods and dogs around sheep.
I won’t get involved with that, as regardless of how the dog is trained they should not be allowed to roam loosely around sheep. Any strange dog can cause worry and sadly the ewe to abort even if they don’t chase…
This post is about please be respectful of our farmers, their livestock and their livelihoods.
Not just in lambing season but all year round…keep them on lead or just simply walk somewhere else 😊
The farmers have every right to shoot!!

17/02/2025

We just enjoyed a weekend away in Northumberland in our camper van with the dogs, we did some really nice walks and saw an abundance of wild birds. We also had the opportunity to practice some training, with distractions, in a Country Park car park in readiness for our upcoming Kennel Club Good Citizen Assessments which the Poodles will soon be doing.

15/02/2025

ARE YOU WORTH COMING BACK TO?

I’m often horrified when I watch people trying to get their dogs to come back to them when they call.

They call and call and get increasingly angry and frustrated as their dog keeps ignoring them.

When their dog eventually comes back, or has been chased and "captured” by the now really angry person, they get screamed at, yanked about, or punished in some way for taking so long and not listening.

Why on earth would a dog want to return to someone who does this to them!

The most common reason dogs don’t come back when we call is because it’s not a positive experience.

A new environment is generally far more rewarding, stimulating and exciting than coming back to us.
An exciting scent or seeing something to chase can all override a response to recall.

Make coming back to you well worth it by always making it a rewarding experience and keep practicing this throughout a dog’s life.

Have a little patience if it takes longer than you would like, let your dog finish what they’re doing before calling them, practice in different locations and environments and never reprimand or punish them for coming back.

There is never a guarantee of a perfect recall each and every time, but making it a rewarding experience will greatly improve the rate of success.

15/02/2025

11/02/2025

**** Beginners Scentwork Class ***
Bardney & Potter Dog Club are kindly hosting me to offer scent classes.
The first 6 week course for beginners starts Thursday 6th March at 6.30pm
Potterhanworth Village Hall LN4 2EA

This course will introduce the dog to a scent,
how to spot that they recognise and identify the scent through their body language…
Introducing a passive indication…
Building searches to suit each individual team…with lots of rewards and play!

To book please contact Naomi Evans by text: 07791 770 771
Email: [email protected]

11/02/2025

This is such an important point when it comes to teaching our dogs new things.

Think back to when you were at school. What helped you to learn better - the teacher who just told you when you had got something wrong but with no explanation of what or why, or the teacher who praised you when you got something right? I'm willing to bet that the second teacher made you feel a whole lot better and more willing to learn more!

The things we'll like our dogs to be able to do when asked may not seem obvious to them, but setting up the training scenario to give them the best opportunity to succeed or make a move in the right direction gives us a student who is likely to be keen and engaged and wanting to keep learning with us, because they're enjoying the process.

04/02/2025

Hello everyone!

I thought I would post some more information about our only planned litter for 2025, in terms of timescale, which I hope will prove helpful to those of you who are hoping to add one of our Miniature Poodles to their families this year .

Our planned Mum is due in season towards the end of March, once her season starts I will post an update and she will then visit the stud dog. After the mating has taken place I will post another update which will have an approximate “due date” which will be 63 days after the mating takes place. Once born, the puppies stay with us for 8 weeks.

These dates are all approximate as Mother Nature is very much "The Boss" of these things!

Here is our planned Mum with her Son and Daughter from last year, these two youngsters are sired by the same stud dog we plan to use this year.

I hope this all helps 😊

02/02/2025

All groomed and trimmed ❤

31/01/2025

Reward based training is used for large and extremely dangerous animals like primates, big cats, bears and alligators to remain still for health examinations and blood draws (an unpleasant experience but necessary for their health at times). Yet apparently a Belgian Malinois is 'too much dog' for reward based training to be effective and so they need shock collars, prong collars etc?

Dogs have been shaped by human selection for thousands of years to live alongside us and work with us in a wide variety of jobs. If non-domesticated animals can be trained to willingly do things through reward based training, why would a domesticated species need harsh training and handling?

28/01/2025

Hello everyone!

It has been lovely chatting to so many of you regarding our forthcoming potential Miniature Poodle litter which will be a repeat of our beautiful 2024 litter, I thought I’d post a little information for you all about our potential new owner process.

At this stage I do not keep waiting lists, what I do firstly is chat to a potential owner privately to find out a little about the type of home they would offer a puppy. I like to know about any past dogs owned, any children in the family, if so how old, do you have a secure garden, own home or rented, do you work at all and what are your working hours, that type of information.

After this has happened, those people we feel will offer suitable homes are invited to meet us at our home. This meeting gives us all the opportunity to have a detailed chat face to face, you can meet the planned Mum, two of her puppies from our 2024 litter, see health testing documents for both planned parents, discuss pedigrees, see our sales contracts and all our paperwork first hand. You can also see where our dogs live (with us in our home) and see where the puppies are raised.

After this meeting, assuming we are all still happy with each other, those people go onto our “met and approved” list, which is like a waiting list but with far more commitment from both parties.

Once on this list you would be entitled to place a deposit on a puppy once they have been born. I try to estimate how many puppies I expect to have and have about that number of people on my list to avoid unnecessarily disappointing anyone, but obviously I cannot guarantee this as Mother Nature is in charge!
I will never take a deposit from or sell a puppy to anyone I have not met in person.

Our planned Mum has the following DNA health test results and she will also have a BVA eye examination certificate.
Osteochondrodysplasia (OCD) CLEAR
Gangliosidosis GM2 (HEXB variant) CLEAR
Degenerative myelopathy (DM) CLEAR
Von Willebrand disease I (vWD1) CLEAR
Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) progressive rod-cone degeneration (PRCD) CLEAR
Neonatal encephalopathy with seizures (NEWS) CLEAR

Our planned Mum is also DNA tested clear for over 160 conditions, this means that they do not carry any of these conditions genetically and therefore cannot pass them onto any puppies they have.

The stud dog we will be using has the same health testing in place, both parents are Kennel Club registered and the puppies will be KC registered.
Details of our 2024 litter can be seen on Champdogs https://www.champdogs.co.uk/litter/69905

Both planned parents have excellent temperaments and are lovely examples of their breed, they have been carefully selected to match each other in every respect and the pairing will have a super low COI (coefficient of inbreeding) of just 2.5%.

Puppies are raised in our home following our extensive socialisation program and leave us at 8 weeks of age to approved homes. They leave us with an extensive puppy pack which includes a bag of the food they have been raised on, a scent blanket, detailed care sheet, Kennel Club registration documents (these will have endorsements), copies of both parent’s health tests and pedigrees, 5 weeks free Kennel Club insurance, a vet health check certificate, microchip and a sales contract. I offer a lifetime of aftercare and advice for every puppy and we also have a private Facebook group for puppy owners.

We will be inviting visits for potential owners of our 2025 litter puppies sometime in the near future, but I am happy to chat with potential puppy owners anytime.
Please enjoy having a good look through the page, there are past litters documented in our photo albums and lots of videos showing how and where our puppies are raised, our previous litters were extensively documented to comply with Lucy’s Law with lots of photos and videos so please enjoy following the page to see how those litters progressed. If you have any questions about our potential planned litter or our potential new owner process please message me through the page and I will do my best to help you.

There’s absolutely no obligation to come and meet us before puppies have been born and we welcome visits once the puppies are over 4 weeks of age if you feel you would rather wait.

Rachel 😊

Photos of our 2024 litter