Little Bear Paws Miniature Aussiedoodles

08/22/2024

5 week old mini aussiedoodle puppies.

08/21/2024

08/20/2024

5 week old mini aussiedoodle photo dump! They are going to be so fun for their families!

08/14/2024

Mini f1b aussiedoodles play

08/14/2024

Ixonia wisconsin, near Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago.

08/06/2024

Three week old puppies are getting fun! Happy kawaii mini f1b aussiedoodle puppies.

08/02/2024

08/02/2024

Just opening eyes and ears.. these little potatoes are turning into puppies right before our eyes!

07/18/2024

Introducing our kawaii litter of mini/toy f1b aussiedoodles:

07/16/2024

We welcome to the world 7 toy f1b aussiedoodles. 5 boys 2 girls! They are perfect! We can’t wait to share their journey with you. Our waitlist is open if you want one of these babies to go home with you.

05/21/2024

We cannot wait for this litter of small mini f1b aussiedoodles! The waitlist is now open to add one of these little pups to your family!

05/02/2024

Puppies go home this weekend, so tonight they got a box of their go home blankets and stuffies to get scented like their litter. Go home day is a huge transition in their little lives, and we hope that having something that smells like us helps them to adapt a little easier to their new life.

05/01/2024

04/24/2024

The last few weeks at the farm the pups have gotten into quite a routine. They spend their evenings in their big playpen and getting 1/1 attention and training and their days outside, walking, playing, exploring, and snoozing on the deck. They are doing amazing with using their potty pads in their pen at night and going p**p in the grass and not on the hard surfaces. While it’s not exactly how it will be at your home, we feel that having room to explore and not being fenced all day helps build the pups homing capacity and gives them endless enrichment so they don’t become board.

04/22/2024

The end of last week all our families got to pick their puppies! We have 8 amazing families for 8 beautiful puppies and we only have 2 left. If you have been sleeping on this litter, I’d lock one of these perfect little babies in. Temperment and health tested, raised with puppy culture protocol. Ready to go home may 3rd.

04/20/2024

We do puppy culture training with our pups. One of the things that we are currently doing with them is Manding. Manding helps to give our puppy a voice by offering them a nonverbal way to ask for things and/or signal a need. For us the cue is a calm sit with eye contact. We do not cue this behavior we just reward it with things like being let out of the pen, giving treats, or giving affection. The puppies are starting to really understand that a calm sit is much more likely to work than amped up paws up whining or barking. They are by no means perfect at this but each day they are getting better.

04/18/2024

Fear windows and why we keep our puppies for 10 weeks:

This morning we took the same walk we have been making for a couple of weeks but instead of excited puppies we had fearful pups! It took a long time to coax them away from the comfort of the deck and a couple ended up running home instead of joining our walk. This is a NORMAL part of puppy development!

Fear periods are temporary windows of developmental and cognitive change that typically occur 1-2 times during the first year of a dog's life. They often present with sudden behavioral changes that can be alarming to an unsuspecting dog owner, as they can involve the dog developing a "spookiness" or suspicion towards new things.

These periods actually serve a functional purpose in a pup's development. During these windows, your dog's brain is undergoing massive reorganization and change, and your dog's body is biologically preparing for more independence and self-sufficiency.

It's important for dogs to develop a pattern of things that are safe, and things that are to be avoided. But it's our job to ensure that those patterns aren't skewed by unpleasant experiences.

Typically puppies are sent home right about today, just as these periods are suddenly hitting a puppy. We feel that instead of such upheavals, we should help the puppies through these windows by continuing to gently and consistently asking them to stretch their capacities instead of slamming them into huge changes.

We know people can’t wait to welcome their new friend, but we promise that waiting these two more weeks is important for their lifelong resilience. Look at this video of puppies on the log today vs the ones taken just yesterday. Instead of playing and being comfortable they are whining and working hard to just regulate. What a difference a day makes!

04/18/2024

King of the hill

04/18/2024

Mini aussiedoodles play on a pile of logs

04/13/2024

Puppy 6 week photo dump

04/13/2024

Puppies had such a BIG day! They went for a long car ride to the vet and got their vaccines and a clean bill of health. They took two big walks in the woods. They played in a puddle. They met new friends and went to a friends house and learned about traffic from a safe distance. Their little brains are learning resilience and building new neural pathways.

04/10/2024

After their walk the puppies passed out. Look at these tired puppies.

04/10/2024

The puppies went on nearly 1/3 mile walk today. They stuck together and overcame the stress soo well.

04/10/2024

Part of teaching resilience to puppies is helping them to feel the pride of overcoming their fear. It is very compelling to want to pick them up when they are scared or resistant, but instead we chear on each puppy to face their fear. We never force them, we just stay with them until they succeed then give them huge snuggles and exciting new adventures. Here are the puppies first learning how to go down the stairs a huge accomplishment on their way to becoming self sufficient and amazing family pets!

04/10/2024

With puppy culture training we aim to introduce the puppies to new items daily, and rotate toys to avoid boredom. Puppies have a need for mental stimulation, novelty, scavenging, sniffing, tearing and ripping, and lots of play. Today we gave the puppies a snuffle mat to practice foraging, a new foraging toy, an egg carton to tear up, a baby toy with lights and sounds to get desensitized by, and a cat toy that sounds like a mouse. It was so fun for the puppies to play with all of these new things.

04/04/2024

Play hard rest hard.. 10 tired aussiedoodle puppies.

04/02/2024

5 week photo dump