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12/08/2024

Happy happy 1st birthday to Daisy and Mossy’s puppies: Teddy, Olive, Maple, Nova, and Rupert! 🥳 Tell your humans to post some pics here so we can see what you look like all grown up! 😍

02/08/2024

Millie and Alfie’s puppies are celebrating their first birthdays around the country today!! 🤩🥳

Here’s what they looked like at six weeks old, and they’re still this teeny in my head! 🥹😅

Mya, Teddy, Cookie, Bubbles, Maisy, and Lola - show us what you look like now! 😍

06/07/2024

The last of our puppies have settled into their new homes! 🥳

We’re back down to the usual crew….and the usual amount of noise and cleaning. 😉😮‍💨😅

No more puppies for 2024, but watch this space - I will be expecting our next litter around this time next year, all going well! 🥰

22/06/2024

Looks like we are all sorted!!! 🤩
Thanks so much everybody who shared this - really appreciate it!! Egg will be winging his way to Wellington on the 4th! 🥰

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Hello everybody!
Egg has found a wonderful home in Wellington, but we need to get him there! It’s very expensive to fly a puppy unaccompanied, so we’re trying to avoid that, and use the power of the internet to find somebody for him to fly with!

Is anybody out there flying from Dunedin to Wellington at the start of July? Preference would be for Wed 3rd or Thurs 4th from Dunedin, or else from Christchurch to Wellington on Sat 6th or Sun 7th?! 😅

Please message me if that’s you! It’s a VERY easy job - you basically just add him to your ticket and I will do all the rest. We can even be your airport shuttle at both ends! 😃 You don’t get to take Egg on the plane with you, unfortunately, but you can cuddle him at the airport before you go - if you can convince the airport staff to give you a turn! 😉😂🥰

LET’S GET EGG TO WELLINGTON!! 🥳

(Egg is the one at the front in this photo. Hot Cross Bun is behind him, and he’s still looking for his forever home! 🥺 I’ll do a wee feature on him later! 😁)

21/06/2024

UPDATE: We have potentially found an amazing home for Bunny already!! Thanks to everybody who shared, and sorry to anybody who might be disappointed! I will let you know if this doesn’t work out, but for now let’s consider Bunny on hold. 😊

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Something we guarantee when you adopt one of our puppies is that we will help you with rehoming your puppy, should the need arise. We know that life is unpredictable and that--as much as you love your puppy--sometimes it turns out that the timing is just not right. There's no judgement here - in fact, we think it's very brave and selfless to realise that you're not in a position to be the best person your dog needs right now and to want the best for it. 🩷

Bunny flew to Auckland a month ago to a very loving home, but now we need to find her a new home! This could be an AMAZING opportunity for any of our followers who live up that way! Please note, Bunny won’t be free, but she has already had her second lot of vaccinations and comes with all sorts of accessories (crate, pen, food, toys, etc). All of this (as well as the transport costs to get her up there) adds up to well over $600, so that is a huge help to someone starting out.

Please get in touch if you'd love Bunny to be part of your family. She doesn't have to go to a North Island family, but it is certainly easier and cheaper than flying her back down here. And if you're based in the South, we still have Hot Cross Bun available!! 😀 More on him coming soon. 😉

14/06/2024

I had an interesting start to my day!

A woman in England contacted me - she was looking at a dog to rehome (in England) and became suspicious that it was a scam, so did a reverse image search and believes they have used photos of one of our Daisy & Ted dogs!! 😲😡

This is a wee reminder to be very careful - there are a lot of dodgy people out there, and thank goodness this lady thought to check. Please thoroughly investigate any dog you’re looking into to make sure the seller is reputable and the dog actually exists!! If you cannot meet the dog in person before putting any money down, see if a friend can visit on your behalf, or do a video call. Ask lots of questions and make sure you are satisfied with the answers. MASSIVE red flag if the seller will not let you see a dog in person or doesn’t engage with you and spend time talking with you.

A good breeder will:
🔸 be happy for you to meet a dog or puppy you are interested in, and for you to see the environment it is being raised in
🔸 be knowledgeable and transparent about the health of the dogs, the breeds they are dealing with, and good breeding practices
🔸 have DNA tested their breeding lines to provide certainty that their puppies cannot develop any heritable diseases the breeds may be susceptible to. A health check from the vet is good but is not the same thing. Knowing you have clear genetics from the start can minimise costs and heartache down the line.
🔸 answer all your questions, and also have questions for YOU, as they will care deeply about their puppies and want to know about the homes they are going to.
🔸 support you through the adoption process and afterwards, as you navigate life with a baby dinosaur! 😄

If you’re getting a bad feeling about a breeder/seller, don’t rush into anything! Do your homework, or pass on that puppy, even if it is the cutest little thing you have ever laid eyes on. There will be another equally adorable one just around the corner, I promise! 🩷

10/06/2024

Quick wee pupdate from me - I know it’s been AGES since I’ve posted anything!! 🙈

It’s been a big week - Bunny has flown off to her new life in Auckland, and Marshmallow has also been snapped up, and is staying in Dunedin! 🤩

This means we only have the wee boys (Egg and Hot Cross Bun) left! Right from the start I predicted Egg would be the most popular one, because of his gorgeous colouring and cute wee eyebrows, but so far nobody has enquired about him at all! 🥲 I’m really surprised! (My sister said, “do you think it could be because of his name?” 🤣)

I have had a LOT (so many!!!! 😲) of people asking if I’ll be doing another litter before the end of the year, and unfortunately the answer to that is no. 😞 Daisy is my only breeding dog at the moment, and although she will come on heat again before the end of the year, I’m going to give her a rest, and then do one more litter from her next year. All going well, these ones will be born around the middle of the year. We also have our up and coming mumma Bonnie, who will hopefully be having her first litter next year, likely towards the end of the year. So if you’re after a Daisy and Ted pup this year, Egg and Hot Cross Bun will be your only chance!

The other thing is, several people have mentioned that they would love one of these dogs but the timing is not good because they’re going away in the near future. If this is you, don’t let this stop you! Let’s have a chat - there’s a good chance I can have your puppy here while you’re away. I’m not going anywhere! ☺️

I’ll try to get some more photos of our wee boys tonight. It’s hard now - they run so fast!! 😅
In the meantime, here’s the little Eggy boy, plotting his escape from the pen! 😁

26/05/2024

These days it’s either silent while everybody sleeps, or CHAOS when they play! 😂

You might not be able to tell in this wee video, but we’re down to four puppies - Button left us yesterday! She’s now called Pepper (😍), and has gone to live her best life in the Queenstown Lakes District with an old school friend of mine! 🥹🥰

16/05/2024

Sorry it has been a bit silent around here!! I’ve had a wee bit going on. 😮‍💨

Here’s a two minute video of the puppies playing to make up for it. 😊

They got a significant accommodation upgrade a couple of weeks ago and are now living in their mega play pen! Here they get heaps of stimulation - they have different combinations of toys swapped in and out every day, and they also get little age-appropriate challenges. Today’s wee challenge was this box that their food arrived in - it’s about the same height as them and I thought I’d see how they went with climbing on it. They were VERY into it, and some of them got a bit bold and started really leaping off it!! 😱🤭 I had to take it off them pretty quickly because it’s not very good for their wee joints to jump like that at this age!
They take themselves off to bed in their crate and come out to go to the toilet (yes, this is something they have to learn how to do!), and they’re enjoying exploring around the garden and meeting lots of different people. They are all VERY social wee critters!!
They’re also having lots of baths and learning to be ok with the hairdryer. Because they don’t shed, they need to be regularly groomed, and it’s important we start the process of getting them used to it right from the start. The next step will be running an electric toothbrush over them (to practice for the clippers) and brushing them, and before they go to their families they will have their first little mini groom. ☺️

07/05/2024

The puppies had their professional photo shoot in the weekend! 🤩 (Enormous thanks once again to Kimberley Cheyne Photography!)

They had the time of their lives exploring the garden - MUCH braver than their previous experience outdoors! 😆

BUNNY (girl) - Bunny is quite dark chocolate-coloured, but with streaks of lots of different shades in her fur. She is almost completely brown, with just a tiny little white streak on her chest. She's very sweet and gentle, and loves a cuddle. She's also the most relaxed in the bath!

EGG (boy) - Egg is parti-coloured, with three main colours in the mix: largely white with big dark brown patches, but he has little light brown patches in some places - most notably his cute wee eyebrows! He plays hard and sleeps hard!

BUTTON (girl) - Button is the darkest of the three chocolate pups, but she has a large-ish white patch on her chest, a tiny little white goatee, and white toes on her back feet. She is also very sweet and cuddly!

HOT CROSS BUN (boy) - HCB is parti like his brother Egg, but he only has two colours - predominantly white, with very dark brown spots (they probably look black in some photos, but I can assure you they are brown). I had actually pegged HCB as a bit of a whiny baby (🙊😂) but he really came into his own out in the garden, and proved that he was VERY brave and curious, and full of beans!!

MARSHMALLOW (girl) - Marshmallow is the lightest brown one, and she has a white chest and white toes on her back feet, like Button. She's the most reserved of the bunch - often just sitting quietly at the back of the group. She's VERY gentle, and very very cuddly.

Bunny and Button have found wonderful homes, but Marshmallow, Hot Cross Bun, and Egg are still available, so please do get in touch if you're thinking about adding a pup to your family! 🥰

05/05/2024

A little note about coats!

These puppies are SPOODLES, which is a cross between cocker spaniels and poodles (known as cockerpoos in North America and the UK). One of the main reasons people cross all sorts of dogs with poodles is because of the huge benefits of the poodle coat - it does not shed, and is hypoallergenic (less likely to cause allergies). Most “oodles” will have wavy or curly non-shedding fur. Sometimes one with a straighter, shedding coat will sneak through, usually in a first generation mix. This “first generation”, known as “F1”, is the offspring of a purebred dog, such as a cocker spaniel, and a poodle. In this case the genetics passed on are a bit less predictable. Often breeders will “backcross” the next generation, so breed an oodle with a poodle again, resulting in more poodle in the mix, and a much more reliable “teddy bear” look, with non-shedding, hypoallergenic fur.

There are three types of coat oodles have: hair, fleece, or wool.
HAIR is straighter and coarser, and likely to shed.
FLEECE is wavy or big soft curls, and won’t shed.
WOOL is tight curls, and won’t shed.

Daisy is an F1b toy spoodle: her mum was an F1 (first generation) spoodle, and her dad was a toy poodle. Alfie is a purebred toy poodle. This makes their babies F1bb spoodles (backcrossed twice to the poodle) - meaning they are actually 7/8ths poodle. Both Daisy and Alfie have fleece coats, and the puppies all do too. This means I can confidently guarantee they will not be shedding dogs, and they won’t have much of a doggy smell. 😊 Personally I think this is a huge benefit, but please be aware that that means they require brushing and regular grooming, which is a bit of extra work/cost to factor in. Please also note that hypoallergenic does not mean non-allergenic, it means LOWER. If you’re allergic to other dogs, there’s a good chance an oodle will work for you, but please do meet the puppy before you commit to it, to be sure. 😊

Thank you for coming to my (Daisy and) Ted Talk!! 😄 The next one will be on colour genetics! 😉😁

03/05/2024

Feeding time! (Again!)
(Daisy is not actually allowed in there while they are eating, but she was quicker than I was this time and I let her away with it. 🙊)

The wee pups are five weeks old and they’re AWESOME at eating their food now! They have experienced a few different textures and flavours, and approach them all with gusto! 😋
They’re also playing with toys, and they’re sleeping less and wanting to be interacted with more. They’re basically in a routine of sleep ➡️ eat ➡️ play (and poo everywhere) ➡️ repeat. 🔄

(Sound on if you want to hear their little eating noises! 🥰)

28/04/2024

First time outside today! They took a LONG time to be brave enough to come out of the crate, and then they really just wanted to climb straight into my lap. 😆 We’ll try again another day! 😅 At least they’ve had the experience: felt the breeze, touched the grass, heard a variety of traffic noises, etc. It’s all good practice for being out in the real world! 😊
(Button and Bunny at the front are so cute in this wee video, but I am aware Hot Cross Bun has a REALLY pooey bum!! 🙈 He’s had a bath now!! 😂👍)

25/04/2024

The puppies are four weeks old! Here’s a little round up of photos from the last few days. (Check out the last two, where you can see how much they’ve grown in the last four weeks. 😁)

I absolutely love this fourth week, because like magic they suddenly turn from quite helpless little slug-puppies into proper tiny little dogs. 😄

They’re finally aware of the world around them: they get excited when they see me, they explore novel objects they encounter, and they’re playing with each other (and with big brother Rupert!). They’ve also started doing all sorts of other things proper dogs do, like wagging their tails, squatting to poo, and licking me and each other. Their walking is getting so much stronger - they’re even starting to try running now! They’ve had their first bath (and all of them coped very well 🥰) and they’re starting to learn how to eat solids (not doing very well at that quite yet 😆). Now that their hair is longer and fluffier, you can see a wee wave starting to come in.

They’re all completely adorable, and will be ready to go to their families in just one more month! Check out our website and get in touch if you’re interested in adding one of these babies to your life. 🥰

20/04/2024

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18/04/2024

The puppies are now three weeks old, and getting cuter by the day! 🤩 They are learning to walk, and are practicing making a variety of noises. Their eyes and ears are properly open and they’re starting to engage more with the world and with each other. Within the next week we’ll start gently exposing them to some new experiences, including their first taste of puppy food!

This video was taken a couple of nights ago, and they have since graduated out of the whelping box and into a crate and pen, where they have more room to stretch their legs. The first dog you see come to tend to them is not actually Daisy, it’s big brother Rupert! Rupert is 8 months old, from Daisy’s litter last year, and he absolutely LOVES the babies. 🥰 He is constantly checking on them and licking them, and he has even brought them presents a couple of times! 🥹 He’s very gentle with them, and Daisy is mostly very happy for him to interact with them (although she does get a wee bit growly at the end of this video!).

12/04/2024

The puppies are two weeks old!! 🤩

They’re growing HEAPS and developing so quickly - all of their eyes are at least partially open, and they’re all starting to push themselves up on their wee legs to walk around!! It’s incredible. I’ll get a video in the weekend! 😊

From top to bottom:
Egg
Marshmallow (I think)
Bunny (I think! 😆)
Button
Hot Cross Bun
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06/04/2024

Ten days old and the puppies are thriving! Look at the size of this pile now! 😅
Eyes and ears will start opening up in the next few days. I always love it when their eyes open, it’s like “oh, there you are!” 😍

31/03/2024

HAPPY EASTER!!

Our little chocolate Easter babies are all doing very well. There’s not much to report - they’re feeding and sleeping and growing, which is everything they’re meant to be doing at the moment! 🥰

Note: No Easter eggs were consumed by any puppies in the making of this photo!! (They are not actually in a chocolate coma; they look like this all the time. 😉😂) And usual safety reminder/lesson that with all the chocolate and raisins around, both Easter and Christmas can be pretty dangerous times for our doggos. Take care out there! And enjoy your Easter Sunday. 🥰 xx

28/03/2024

Daisy and Alfie’s puppies have arrived safe and sound!!! 🤩 Five precious pups - and surprise! Look at the colours! 😍 (I’m super interested in the colour genetics and I will write another post on this soon, in case anybody else is interested. 😉) According to all my scientific predictions, half of these puppies should have been Daisy’s colouring, but chocolate has won! Which is actually very appropriate at Easter. 😉🥰

So, we have three little girls in various shades of chocolate, and two little parti boys (parti means they are more than 50% white and have patches of another colour on them; in this case chocolate).

Due to the timing and the colouring, it felt wrong to not go with an Easter theme for the names!

So, welcome to the world, from right to left:

MARSHMALLOW, CHOCOLATE BUTTON, EASTER BUNNY, HOT CROSS BUN, and EGG.

(Turns out an Easter theme is harder than you’d think, but we’re just embracing it. 😂)

If you’re interested in adding one of these babies to your life, please speak to your family/people you live with to make sure everybody is on board, have a read of the info on our website (www.daisyandted.co.nz), and then get in touch! 😊 (Please understand we will want to have a conversation with you about your living situation - e.g., whether you own your home, how well it is fenced, your experience or expections of owning a dog including ongoing costs, etc.)

Happy Easter! 🤗

17/03/2024

A little update on our pregnant mumma! 🤩

Daisy is doing super well, and despite being VERY round, she’s mostly still bouncing around as if nothing’s going on! 😆
She made her last pregnancy look so easy that I almost wondered if she didn’t even know she was pregnant 😅 - so decided she’d be ok with doing two in a row. There’s a lot of debate about whether it’s better for the dog’s health to skip a cycle or to have consecutive pregnancies. I’ve chosen to do two in a row with Daisy while she’s young and managing it so well, and we’ll skip the next cycle. This means that this will be our only litter for this year.

The puppies are active and we can feel them moving around, and sometimes even SEE their movement! I’ll pop a little video in the comments (in case anybody is squeamish about these things!). Not too much longer now!!! 😍🥰

04/03/2024

We have exciting news…Daisy’s pregnant! 🥳😍

The father is Alfie (picture below), so these puppies will actually be half-siblings of both of the litters we had last year!

Daisy is an F1b spoodle, meaning her mum is a spoodle and her dad is a (toy) poodle, and Alfie is a toy poodle. That means these babies will be F1bb and we are confident they’ll be non-shedding and have the teddy bear look. They will most likely be chocolate coloured or somewhere on the apricot-red spectrum, and probably between 4-6kgs when fully grown (but then I thought that last time and ended up with big boy Rupert who is over 8kgs and not fully grown yet! 😅).

They are due at EASTER, but could arrive any time in the week before or after Easter - watch this space! 🥰

We don’t have waiting lists for our puppies because we don’t know in advance how many we will have, so it won’t be possible to reserve a puppy until they are born, and then it will be a case of first in, first served. If you are seriously interested in one of these pups, please read all the information on our website (www.daisyandted.co.nz) and discuss it with your family to make sure everybody is on board. You are very welcome to contact me to ask questions between now and when the babies arrive.

In the meantime, I’ll keep you updated with Daisy’s progress! Here’s her cute wee 5-week tummy! 🥰

14/02/2024

Our puppies from last year are six months old this month, so probably time for an update from us!

I’ve been sent recent photos of some of them, so you’ll be able to see how they’ve turned out now that they’re a bit more grown up. 😊

Daisy’s three little girls are all around 4kgs at six months, which is what Daisy weighed at four months, so looks like they’ll end up even smaller than her! Teddy is slightly bigger at 5kgs, and Rupert the giant is somehow a whopping 8kgs?!?! 🤯 (Daisy is only 5.8kgs fully grown! 😅)

Millie and Alfie’s teeniest baby is still teeny at 2.4kgs (🥹) and the biggest one is around 5kgs.

Coincidentally, a number of these puppies have just had their first “big kid” haircut (actually….looks like all of them except Rupert have had a recent tidy up! 😂🙈). You can really see how different they can end up looking depending on the hairstyle they have!

I’m probably a bit biased but I can’t get over how cute they all are!! 🥹🥰

01/02/2024

We’re excited to introduce BONNIE! 😍

Bonnie is the newest addition to the Daisy & Ted family. She’s a three-month-old cocker spaniel and will be part of our breeding programme when she’s old enough (late 2025, all going well!). Bonnie joined her wonderful guardian family on Tuesday, and they’re already besotted with her….even though she started digging up their garden the very next day. 🙈😅 Be a good girl, Bonnie!! 💕

01/01/2024

Happy New Year! 🥳

Could 2024 be the year you add a little dog to your life? 🤔😉

We don’t have any litters of puppies at the moment (hopefully we will closer to the middle of the year! 🤞) but right now we’re looking for a couple of special people/families to be guardians for females we’re planning on adding into our breeding programme this year - one very soon! 😃

These dogs will most likely be miniature poodles or spoodles, or possibly a cocker spaniel. (Probably 35-40cm tall at the shoulder and between 8-15kgs, when fully grown.)

If you’re interested in our guardian programme, please check out all the details on our website in the first instance, and if you think this might be a good option for you, get in touch! 🤗

https://www.daisyandted.co.nz/guardian-programme.html

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas from us here at Daisy & Ted! 🎄 🐶
Here’s Daisy (right) and her baby, Rupert - already bigger than her at 4 months! 😳
Hope you all have safe and happy holidays.
Thank you for your support in 2023, and we will look forward to sharing more puppy mayhem with you in 2024! 🤞🥰

25/10/2023

THAT’S A WRAP!!! 🥳

🤍 11 puppies,
🤍 29 rolls of paper towels,
🤍 3 bottles of floor cleaner,
🤍 8 kgs of washing powder,
🤍 51 kgs of puppy food,
🤍 112 DIFFERENT visitors 😅 (many of them more than once!),
🤍 180+ puppy baths, and
🤍 11 WONDERFUL families, who are now loving my puppies even more than I loved them. 💕 I truly couldn’t be happier knowing the babies I raised are going on to have such fantastic lives. 🥹🥰

That’s it for us for puppies for 2023! 🎉

All going well we’ll be expecting another litter of toy spoodles from Daisy in the first half of 2024. 🥰 I’m already looking forward to it!! 😅🙈 But definitely going to enjoy having a bit of a break now. 😁

Xx

23/10/2023

Dumpling has found a home and left today! He’s now called Teddy, and is another one staying in Dunedin! 🥰 (Seven of the eleven puppies are staying here! 😲)

Just little Rupert left now! 🥹💕

Rupert is a special one for me, because I’ve decided to keep him to be an upcoming stud dog. 🤩 On Wednesday he’s going to live with a local family who will be his guardians - basically he’ll be their dog, but technically owned by me and I’ll have breeding rights for him.

I’m going to be adding two new little girls into the breeding programme over the next year, so if you’re interested in being a puppy guardian, have a look at all the info here, and feel free to get in touch! ☺️

https://www.daisyandted.co.nz/guardian-programme.html

22/10/2023

People often ask me if the mama dogs are sad when their puppies leave, and the answer is an emphatic NO. 😂
The mums do a WONDERFUL job taking care of their babies when they’re little, but by the time the puppies are 6-7.5 weeks old, the mums are well and truly weaning them off, and when that job is done they want NOTHING to do with them! 😂 (You should hear the growling if the puppies dare to approach their mother when she doesn’t want them! 🙊😅)
However, now that they’re fully weaned and aren’t trying to feed off her anymore, Daisy is actually spending a lot of time just playing with them! It’s so cute! 🥹🥰 But I would definitely say she has taken her mummy hat off. 😉☺️

We’re down to TWO puppies!! (Two is MUCH easier than eleven!! 🤣😅)

20/10/2023

Thank you for all the interest in Mayo! 🤗
Mayo has now found a wonderful home, and is another one who will be staying in Dunedin! 🤩

Just sweet little Dumpling waiting to find his people now! 🥰

Here’s Dumpling…and a little walk down memory lane of the last 11 weeks! 🥹

If you’re interested in adding Dumpling to your life, get in touch! 🥰 We can very easily arrange a video call or a visit. 💕

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Adventure pups

It’s a madhouse!

These days it’s either silent while everybody sleeps, or CHAOS when they play! 😂 You might not be able to tell in this wee video, but we’re down to four puppies - Button left us yesterday! She’s now called Pepper (😍), and has gone to live her best life in the Queenstown Lakes District with an old school friend of mine! 🥹🥰

Eight weeks of baby spoodles! 😍 It’s fun to look back to see how far they’ve come! 🥰

Puppy play time

Sorry it has been a bit silent around here!! I’ve had a wee bit going on. 😮‍💨 Here’s a two minute video of the puppies playing to make up for it. 😊 They got a significant accommodation upgrade a couple of weeks ago and are now living in their mega play pen! Here they get heaps of stimulation - they have different combinations of toys swapped in and out every day, and they also get little age-appropriate challenges. Today’s wee challenge was this box that their food arrived in - it’s about the same height as them and I thought I’d see how they went with climbing on it. They were VERY into it, and some of them got a bit bold and started really leaping off it!! 😱🤭 I had to take it off them pretty quickly because it’s not very good for their wee joints to jump like that at this age! They take themselves off to bed in their crate and come out to go to the toilet (yes, this is something they have to learn how to do!), and they’re enjoying exploring around the garden and meeting lots of different people. They are all VERY social wee critters!! They’re also having lots of baths and learning to be ok with the hairdryer. Because they don’t shed, they need to be regularly groomed, and it’s important we start the process of getting them used to it right from the start. The next step will be running an electric toothbrush over them (to practice for the clippers) and brushing them, and before they go to their families they will have their first little mini groom. ☺️

Lunch

Feeding time! (Again!) (Daisy is not actually allowed in there while they are eating, but she was quicker than I was this time and I let her away with it. 🙊) The wee pups are five weeks old and they’re AWESOME at eating their food now! They have experienced a few different textures and flavours, and approach them all with gusto! 😋 They’re also playing with toys, and they’re sleeping less and wanting to be interacted with more. They’re basically in a routine of sleep ➡️ eat ➡️ play (and poo everywhere) ➡️ repeat. 🔄 (Sound on if you want to hear their little eating noises! 🥰)

First time outside. 😊

First time outside today! They took a LONG time to be brave enough to come out of the crate, and then they really just wanted to climb straight into my lap. 😆 We’ll try again another day! 😅 At least they’ve had the experience: felt the breeze, touched the grass, heard a variety of traffic noises, etc. It’s all good practice for being out in the real world! 😊 (Button and Bunny at the front are so cute in this wee video, but I am aware Hot Cross Bun has a REALLY pooey bum!! 🙈 He’s had a bath now!! 😂👍)

Three weeks old

The puppies are now three weeks old, and getting cuter by the day! 🤩 They are learning to walk, and are practicing making a variety of noises. Their eyes and ears are properly open and they’re starting to engage more with the world and with each other. Within the next week we’ll start gently exposing them to some new experiences, including their first taste of puppy food! This video was taken a couple of nights ago, and they have since graduated out of the whelping box and into a crate and pen, where they have more room to stretch their legs. The first dog you see come to tend to them is not actually Daisy, it’s big brother Rupert! Rupert is 8 months old, from Daisy’s litter last year, and he absolutely LOVES the babies. 🥰 He is constantly checking on them and licking them, and he has even brought them presents a couple of times! 🥹 He’s very gentle with them, and Daisy is mostly very happy for him to interact with them (although she does get a wee bit growly at the end of this video!).

Daisy playing with puppies

People often ask me if the mama dogs are sad when their puppies leave, and the answer is an emphatic NO. 😂 The mums do a WONDERFUL job taking care of their babies when they’re little, but by the time the puppies are 6-7.5 weeks old, the mums are well and truly weaning them off, and when that job is done they want NOTHING to do with them! 😂 (You should hear the growling if the puppies dare to approach their mother when she doesn’t want them! 🙊😅) However, now that they’re fully weaned and aren’t trying to feed off her anymore, Daisy is actually spending a lot of time just playing with them! It’s so cute! 🥹🥰 But I would definitely say she has taken her mummy hat off. 😉☺️ We’re down to TWO puppies!! (Two is MUCH easier than eleven!! 🤣😅)

It’s been a big few days here as FOUR of our puppies have made their way to their new homes!! 🥹🥰 Weetbix (now Maisy), Willow (now Nova), and Maple (still Maple! 😍) are all staying in Dunedin, woohoo!! And little Cookie (name still under family discussion) has had a big road trip to the top of the South Island. From what I hear they’re all settling in very well! 🥰 The next one to leave is Olive (also staying as Olive! 🤩) - she’s getting on a plane to fly to Auckland tonight. Seven puppies is noticeably different from eleven puppies, but it’s still mayhem around here! 😅🤪

Custard

Hello everybody! I cannot thank you enough for your enthusiasm for my puppies! 😍 I need to let you know that at this point I am marking all remaining puppies as “on hold” while I make my way through the messages and let people make their decisions in the order they have contacted me. ☺️ It is very possible that some puppies may become available again in the next few days, so please do feel free to continue to message me and I will add you to the waitlist and be in touch when I know if there are still any looking for homes! 🥰 If you miss out this time, keep your eye on this page - all going well we will have another litter of spoodle puppies next winter. 😁 In the meantime, check out this little water baby - Custard floods my floor multiple times a day. 😂🙃

Puppies getting their Sunday night thrills on their brand new wobble board. 😄 (Teaching them that life is unpredictable. 😉😅)

💕 PUPDATE! 💕 Huge week this week!! The puppies are so big and active now! The papipoos (Millie’s puppies) are almost 7 weeks old and the spoodles (Daisy’s) are just over 5 weeks. Daisy’s puppies are now big enough to play with Millie’s, and they’re all having a great time together in our puppy playroom! 🤩 In the playroom they get introduced to new toys and challenges. The “cool bag” in this video is an example of a new experience for them today - it’s a thick double layer of bubble wrap, so is quite bouncy for them to walk on, and makes a loud crinkly noise. They are continuing to be socialised to having a bath - a necessity because they’re constantly getting such pooey bums! 😅🤪 Millie’s puppies have also now experienced the hairdryer, and have had an electric toothbrush run over them to prepare them for the clippers. Millie and Daisy are both naturally weaning very well, and the puppies are getting better at eating their solid food! 😁 Daisy’s three girls have all been adopted now, to WONDERFUL families, and I am thrilled that two of them are staying in Dunedin!! 😍

💛 PUPDATE (Daisy’s pups) 💛 Daisy’s puppies (Willow, Olive, Ash, Oak, and Maple) are three weeks old (10 days younger than Millie’s puppies) and have been upgraded from the whelping box to a crate. They’ve started walking in the last three or four days, and technically CAN get out of the crate, and into a much bigger area to explore and stretch their legs, but nobody has ventured out there yet! They’re still quite happy to just lie together in a pile. 😁 They’ve grown HEAPS and are starting to make little barking and growling noises, and just last night started playing with each other for the first time! 🤩 Playing at this stage mostly just consists of biting each other’s faces and tapping them with their paws, but it’s a huge jump from barely even being aware of each other’s existence a day or two ago. These wee guys are much more similar in size (and looks) than Millie’s litter! I’m starting to be able to tell them apart though. 😉 Don’t miss the update on Millie’s pups (separate post) to see how much they grow up in only ten days! 😃

⭐️ PUPDATE (Millie’s pups) ⭐️ Millie’s puppies (Cookie, Weetbix, Mayo, Custard, Dumpling, and Sprout) are now 4.5 weeks old, and have really turned into proper wee dogs since the last time I showed them to you! They are running around, very playful and interactive, wagging their little tails, barking and growling at each other, drinking water from a bowl, they have started eating real food (not the kibble here; that’s Millie’s, they just like playing with it), and are learning to leave their den to go to the toilet (they’re not very good at that part yet 🙃). They are super cute and their wee personalities are starting to come out! Mayo (the biggest) is more than twice the weight of Sprout (the smallest), so I really have no idea what size they’re going to end up when fully grown! I was predicting 4-4.5kgs based on the parents, but they might range from 3-5kgs, who knows?! Their hair is getting very long and there’s definitely some waves coming in now. ☺️ (I can only post one video at a time here, so look out for Daisy’s pupdate in a separate post!)

Daisy’s puppies are two weeks old, and weighing in much chunkier than Millie’s did at two weeks! This is not surprising - obviously there are only five of them sharing resources, not six, but also they’ll be slightly bigger dogs when they’re fully grown, because their parents are both bigger than those of the other litter. I’m going to put the spotlight on all these parents over the next few days so you can get to know all about them too! 😁 Video: Milk drunk. ☺️ The cute little shudders and twitches they do while they’re sleeping are involuntary signals the brain is sending to stimulate and strengthen their muscles, seeing as they can’t walk yet! Clever aye! (Watch to the end for a Big Stretch™️. 😉) These wee tree babies are actually starting to push up on their legs a little bit, and Olive and Oak’s eyes are starting to open. 😍 They’re basically doing everything they’re meant to be doing at two weeks of age! 😅 They’re still hard to tell apart when they’re in a pile, but it does look like some of them are going to get a little wave in their coat, and some distinguishing markings might be starting to appear. (For some reason Facebook won’t let me post photos and videos at the same time, so I’ll pop a couple of photos in the comments. 😁)

Millie’s puppies are three weeks old today! 🤩 And a lot has changed since last week. 😁 All eyes and ears are now open, and they’re starting to stand up on their wee legs and wobble around! Here’s a pretty long video of them all practising their walking (except Custard, who slept through the whole thing 😆). Sound on for grumpy little puppy noises - walking is HARD!! 😠 The first three weeks for puppies is basically dedicated to growing, and they’re really not interacting with each other or me yet, but that’s all about to change! They’ll be graduating from the whelping box to a more grown up enclosure this weekend, and will be starting on solid food soon too. 🤩 (By the way, I know I haven’t told you much about Millie, and I haven’t even mentioned the father of these puppies yet! 😂 I’m planning on doing a little feature on them both in the next few days. 😁)

We’ve got puppies!!!!!! 🤩 SIX beautiful babies, in an AMAZING range of colours! 😍 Here they are, just a couple of hours old. 🥰 Pretty much as soon as they are born they start “swimming” to find food! Millie is being a very attentive mother, and everybody seems to be doing very well. 🩷