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Breeding, raising and training friendly mini sheep. Cuddly and easy to handle lifestyle pets First lambs will be born 2021, very limited numbers available.
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Bex Tasker of Positively Together is a positive reinforcement animal trainer of all species. She travels around the world (in person and virtually!) teaching humans how to inspire behaviour change in their animals and deepen their relationships at the same time. Sue Austen of Bullswool Farm Park has a deep and broad expertise in the care and breeding of top quality animals of all species. She runs

a thriving farm park, with her collection of unique and friendly animals drawing visitors from all over NZ and the world. We are combining our considerable experience to produce WoolPuppies - boutique colourful mini sheep, not just tame but trained and full of cuddles and personality.

07/10/2024

Allll the snuggly lambs 🥰 nothing quite like lamb cuddles!

11/09/2024

Mabel and Magnolia enjoying a morning snooze 🥰

06/09/2024

Abomasal bloat is the leading cause of death for young bottle fed lambs. The best way to avoid it is to feed cold yoghurtised milk, in small frequent feeds.
It’s easy and it actually saves time, making the day to day feeds easier!

04/09/2024

Stealing those cuddles with the paddock puppies as often as I can… just keep the mamas busy with snacks while I kiss all the babies

04/09/2024

⏰ Tick tock… we are waiting patiently for Dora to have her babies

01/09/2024

Babies babies everywhere! We are about halfway through lambing. Some lovely colours coming through on the babydoll partbreds so far.

01/09/2024

The lambs visited Bayview Rest Home the other day, escorted by me and my 10yo son. Residents of the dementia and hospital care unit gathered in the lounge for cuddles with babies. Awhi dog buzzed around the room wagging his tail and smiling at everyone, and then showed off some of his tricks. The lambs were happy to be admired and passed around, falling asleep in the arms of whoever they were handed off to.
There were quite a few sheep farmers in the room, many of the ladies were reminiscing about their younger days when the husband would bring in boxes of newborn abandoned lambs and they’d keep them in front of the kitchen range to warm up on winter nights.
So many smiles, and we left with happy hearts 💕

29/08/2024

Nine lambs on the ground so far. Seven ewes left to lamb. If you’d like one of these little beauties in your paddock, get in touch!

24/08/2024

Have you seen newborn hooves before? They have this jelly like substance on the bottom, so their hooves don’t hurt their mama when they’re inside and being born. It quickly disappears once they’re standing and walking.

23/08/2024

Little and large! The wee brown boy is 8 days old and 1.9kg. The big black girl is 24 HOURS old and 3.5kg!

She was lifeless and floppy post-birth and mum walked away, happy with her first baby. So she’s now inside.

21/08/2024

Whopping big healthy twin girls for Sweet Mama! Meet Sprinkles and Donut 🍩 🥰
Gotta love a ewe that not only births independently but is happy for you to walk up, cuddle her babies (and spray their navels), squeeze her udder, and feed some snacks.

20/08/2024

Meet Fiddlestix! He was born Thursday (probably premature) and by Friday night it was clear he wasn’t going to manage out in the paddock with mum. So inside he came, and here I am with a needy newborn ;)
We love him already, these little guys get into your heart so quickly!

13/08/2024

Beautiful Eloise - I can’t wait to see those babies playing in the sunshine! Countdown to lambing…

15/07/2024

Hey WoolPuppies fans! Check out our cute and educational video on raising and training lambs. Share it around!

08/07/2024

26/01/2024

Our Wool Puppies on the front page of the newspaper! Baarnaby the Valais took the main photo but our purebred Babydoll lamb Chance featured also (and he is an important part of our performance team).
If you’re local, come see us perform at the Katikati A&P show on 4th Feb!
Photo: Rebecca Mauger NZME

22/01/2024

Baarnaby and the Wool Puppies get their moment in the spotlight. Click the link to read the full article!

Baarnaby and a few of their farmyard animal friends have a few tricks up their sleeve. 🐑🐔 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr3tspnn

25/10/2023

Chance is now 9 weeks old. I’ve been travelling a lot for work lately and Oliver has been feeding and training him. Today he got to take him to his first Ag Day. They came home with a 1st and a 3rd :)

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This is what a 5⭐️ Wool Puppy looks like. When I say my sheep are friendly, this is what I am aiming for! This little girl was ewe-raised in the paddock (not a pet on a bottle!) and look at her 😍 so snuggly! They aren’t ALL like this of course, some prefer their personal space a little more than Madeline here, but they all come running for treats and attention when I walk in the paddock.

Abomasal bloat is the leading cause of death for young bottle fed lambs. The best way to avoid it is to feed cold yoghurtised milk, in small frequent feeds. It’s easy and it actually saves time, making the day to day feeds easier!

Guess who's going to be at the Waihi A&P Show ? The Wool Puppies performance team (which includes our Blacknose Valais boys, plus a special Babydoll or two)! Most of our friendly Babydoll WoolPuppies are not weaned yet so the ewes and lambs have to stay home, but Chance our bottle-raised Babydoll lamb is now 10 weeks old and is busy learning tricks so he can join the big kids in the performance on the 18th November. Don't miss it!

We love performing with our Wool Puppies and showing people how clever sheep really are! We show off our tricks, teach the audience about reward-based training and share about the different breeds and personalities on our team.

Gingernut has recovered well from her C-section and her lamb Hope was very happy to be outside in the paddock for the first time today! 💨 SPROING!!

I know he’s not technically a Wool Puppy but I thought you’d enjoy this video of Baarnaby, my Blacknose Valais wether. Baarnaby lives with the Wool Puppy training flock. I am doing my professional animal training certification this year (putting the letters / certificate behind the 20 years of actually doing the work!) and for one of our assignments we had to shape a new behaviour on another species. So here’s our early attempt at going around the cones ☺️

Anyone for soccer?

Oh hai 🥰

We spent the morning bringing some new breeding ewes plus our purebred Babydoll ram, Basil, over from Bullswool Heritage Farm. Basil is going to make beautiful babies with our girls over the next 5 weeks - looking forward to lots of lambs in August/September! (Wool Puppies is a joint venture between Bex of Positively Together (that’s me) and Sue at @bullswoolheritagefarm. Doing it together means we can swap genetics and share our complimentary skill sets. It also means we have someone to brainstorm with and just “talk sheep” all day long!)

Blossom (4 months old) has a new trick! What shall we call it?? Blossom is so keen on training, she has great potential as a trick sheep! This wee girl isn’t for sale, - her career will be as a Wool Puppies breeding ewe and also will be helping me run animal training workshops.

The Wool Puppies love skritchies

I can’t stop laughing at this video 😂 This is Paige leading the icebreaker name game at the start of one of our Junior Animal Trainers classes. Dora the sheep has definite ideas about what Paige *should* be doing instead.