Mr fluffy powder puff Arthur
Less than a week to go Mr Arthur until you are in your new home. We have some of you on ice for our future cream babies and I know you are going to be in a wonderful home with a neat family. Tomorrow you have a clip down as this level of floof is not for the faint hearted!
The Golden Retriever babies Ernie, Baxter, Benny, Pippin, Walter and Finlay really enjoyed meeting you today and thought you were very snazzy!
Darling Finnegan practicing next level of bond gaze. Good boy my love 😍
Darling Finnegan practicing next level of bond gaze. Good boy my love 😍
Ruby Joy you are the biggest teddy lover out. Always a huge waggy bum. Only one and a bit weeks darling until we meet Finnegan and your babies 😇
As much as he runs around with puppies he is also calm with them to teach them to be quiet and how to relax.
The more relaxed and quiet you are with your puppy and dog the more relaxed your furkid will be.
Cupcake tea parties and puppies. Louis you love life so much
Cupcake tea parties and puppies. Louis you love life so much
Off on a jet plane and a disappointed Louis who recovered quickly with Daisy love in the car.
Louis rather disappointed the babies are going one by one. He perked up back at the car as Daisy was there to greet him and take him to school 🥹
He is so lucky to have this life experience we feel to learn the importance of not keeping the pups and enjoying our own dogs. I have never felt tempted to keep them. Sometimes we will grow a puppy on - once, with Percy so we can continue to work with that dog for a time. I know who our team are and I keep that team tight so we have the time necessary to love them within our family.
Keira and Purple white collar girls arrive to their Wellington and Palmerston North families later today xx
Recall and redirecting play without treats and using toys and praise.
Recall and redirecting play without treats and using toys and praise.
It’s something that we pride ourselves on. Working with puppies without treats and have them less treat driven and more praise and toy focused.
Learning to play as a constructive group by distraction and return to group play - then back to focus on us … and repeating this helps your puppy with recall.
It’s one thing for a puppy to follow but we teach to follow, then independent play then follow again. Louis does this with a game he calls tauganuaght (his own made up name 😂) which is all part of a puppy learning the foundation of hide and seek too.
Pippin playtime! Such a gorgeous boy who loves balls big time!
Pippin playtime! Such a gorgeous boy who loves balls big time!
One of Olives darling babies who is everybody’s friend and such a pretty peach cream and white colour.
He has such an adorable waggy butt and loves to be up front and centre with his brothers in the garden. So so adorable ☺️
That Baxter absolutely loves the velocity dryer 😂. This is a typical morning routine for us with damp days.
They love to play around in the garden and then move to the patio zones and one by one dried off to play inside.
They have their breakfast half an hour after vigorous play. This is important with puppies to avoid tummy discomfort.
Morning Goldendoodle babies!
Morning puppers!!! It’s adorable waking up to them. They slept through and did their toilets on their mats. Such clever babies for almost 7 weeks old. 🐾💓
Heidi and Vincent babies 🐾🥰🥰🥰🥰👼
The quad of gorgeousness here Zeb, Michelles baby, Hattie and Jet.
Really sad to share that as much as we tried with yellow collar boy he unfortunately passed away last night.
The Vet had prescribed antibiotics which he was still on and special recovery food mixed with his Black Hawk biscuits however he just would not grow. He tottered around happily in his neonatal pen right next to his siblings and with his heat discs, heater and teddy bears. He just hasn’t made it sadly.
We have kept his siblings with him (not directly with him or they were rough as they obviously knew he wasn’t well). He was never alone though.
When I fed Snowy her 2am pre travel feed he was still with us. Today we were to go back to the vet however at 6.30am when I got up he had already crossed the rainbow 🌈. His siblings so so much bigger than he was.
I know it can happen and we always seek Vet advice if our babies become unwell. Their immune systems so tiny not all make it sadly. Sending love today to Heidi and Vincent. Yellow collar my little bee you were a happy lad. 🐾
Snowy is off
Snowy is on her way!
Snowy and Keira flight crate training ready for Snowy to leave tomorrow morning
Snowy getting settled in for the second half of the night in a flight crate with sister Keira.
Snowy leaves us tomorrow morning to be with her mountaineering Mum and Dad and live a wonderful life in Queenstown. They visited us four weeks ago and met Snowy. She will look so different to them when they arrive here again tomorrow to collect her in the morning.
Daddy Finnegan is sleeping overnight too; as is Poppy which is really nice as they do love the puppies. It is very sweet.
Both Finnegan and Poppy have had their Penn hip scores done this week so are on their last overnight of crate rest and lead walking around the garden together tomorrow. When dogs are hip scored (with Penn hip scores) their is a significant recovery period because of the manipulation done under general anaesthetic. Pain killers and rest without long running gait is required for the first several days to allow everything to settle down again.
I will be back in an hour at 2am to give Snowy her very last feed so she is not car sick when driving - nor hypoglycaemic by having a too long past dinner period and missing breakfast feed.
My pups that fly like Snowy, Keira and some of the other siblings all have flight crate training. As you can see they are not distressed as it is something familiar since they have had so much practice this last week and a half.
This is a retired crate that sits in their playroom right from when they are 3 weeks old so they are very used to going in and out of it. It’s handy to use these retired crates with leaving ready pups. Just that little bit of extra training I do with your babies that makes a big difference to their confidence.
Snowy one on one time with the room changing up. Today the ball play shell inside.
Confident alone zone training of the Goldendoodles is such an important preparation for a puppy. Pink collar girl here practicing today and already knows that she can sit and get praise. Well done babies! You are all doing so well 💓
Time on their own is made more interesting with boxes that have hidden treats, toys and kibble in them. Paper is another play item pups love.
Our patio is divided into two areas so pups learning to be next to each other and then graduating to being alone and happy in their own space.
Such gorgeous babies.
Stunning English Cream babies of Olive, Willow and Finnegan. Having a cute play with toys in the sun and since it’s already so hot here some welcome shade play too. ❤️🐾💓
Stunning English Cream babies of Olive, Willow and Finnegan. Having a cute play with toys in the sun and since it’s already so hot here some welcome shade play too. ❤️🐾💓
Goldendoodles having a run before dinner and a wee intro of each one 💓🐾
Goldendoodles having a run before dinner and a wee intro of each one 💓🐾
When they are in a big group together having a blast we let them run and move like a little river of fluff 😝
Rosa has finished her one week past her final vaccination and off for a trip to check out the new pet isle at Bunnings after the school drop off.
Everyone needs Donuts 🍩. The perfect lead and collar set for my sweet girl.
Thanks Bunnings Warehouse New Zealand
One on one grooming, sit voice marking and lead training. This is done with all of our puppies from when they are 7 weeks old. And today they are 7 weeks old! Wow that time has zoomed by! Lovely Kahlua working with me 💓.
One on one grooming, sit voice marking and lead training. This is done with all of our puppies from when they are 7 weeks old.
And today they are 7 weeks old! Wow that time has zoomed by!
Lovely Kahlua working with me 💓.
Because she’s not food/treat driven like her Nana then I spend the session playing and praise. Marking her with ‘yes’ and naming the correct action she is doing.
Darling English Cream pups of Olive and Willow all health checked and vaccinated. Such a pleasure having have had the opportunity to raise you guys. They start leaving from next week. Time has flown by!
Darling English Cream pups of Olive and Willow all health checked and vaccinated.
Such a pleasure having have had the opportunity to raise you guys.
They start leaving from next week. Time has flown by!
