March 17, 2025 – Sadie and Tucker’s puppies are home with their forever families now and we’re hearing great reports. We know each pup went to a wonderful, loving family and we pray the pups will live happily ever after! Due to this litter and these families that chose us, we are able to give $1,800 to a few organizations that are working hard to find, rescue and feed children. We have decided to give $900.00 to the Tim Tebow Foundation and $900.00 to Our Rescue organizations to help children that are in desperate need. Thank you to all of you! Here are the pictures of puppy pickup day!
March 5, 2025 – Tomorrow is puppy selection day! Sadie and Tucker’s puppies are on the home stretch and doing very well. They had their vet exams today, and all pups are very healthy, just as we expect. They are doing wonderful with crate training, and spend time each day in their crates and they’ve learned to settle down in their pretty quickly. This is so vital, it effects their overall temperament, and we’re doing our best to make things easier for the transition away from us, and trying to ease the adjustment in their new homes. It’s so important that they learn to quiet down in a crate and learn to be content all by themselves. They’re also doing really well on leash. They were temperament tested this week and all scored well, each and every pup is socialized, intelligent, confident and conditioned to new sights and scary sounds. If you want to learn more about their temperaments and personalities, read on below. Here are the pictures we took of them at seven weeks old. They’re beautiful pups!
All of the pups scored well on their temperament testing, as we expected. Over all the years that we’ve done the testing, we find that they score so similar! We mainly use it for us, to determine that we haven’t missed anything. It can help us hone in on an area the pup needs a little more attention during their final week with us. We saw that every single pup has completed their conditioning here! Experts say that the temperament testing we do secures that we’ve laid an excellent foundation, but is not necessarily an indicator for their overall temperaments as adults. We always tell our families that they will also play a key role in the personalities and temperaments as they raise their pups into adulthood. Being consistent, calm, and rewarding good behaviors, along with following through on socialization and crate training throughout puppyhood is vital. Protecting them from trauma as they go in and out of fear stages over the upcoming weeks and months is important. A good balance of human time, mixed with naps and night time in crates will be important.
The consistent scoring these pups revealed is that all of them are very adaptable, social, loving and intelligent. All of the pups track us humans (watching us and willingly following us). They thrive on being held and long for human interaction. This makes them easy to train, and their tracking, following and social skills make them ready to progress for training to do service or therapy work, if desired. Their overall scoring (every one of them) shows them to be good with people and other animals. They are all rather quiet at this stage. They seem eager to learn and to please us. They yelp when they’re overly excited or hungry, which is very normal at this young age. All of the pups love to play, but we’re not seeing any in this litter that are excessively energetic. None of the pups show timidity. All of the pups are pretty used to the leash now and leash time with them is consistent and each is doing well on leash. All good! Here’s a bit more that we have noted….
Sage – Sage is really good at fetching/retrieving already. She is pretty chilled out. Not the alpha, more of a follower. She prefers to observe and let others lead. Though just as confident as the others. Based on Sage’s current weight, our best guess is that she’ll grow to be around 45 lbs.
Stella – Stella is more of a leader. She’s been very confident and likes to go first. Very confident, but perhaps not quite as relaxed as her sister. Stella as of this week is the smallest in the litter, by weight. She’s not necessarily shorter, but more then and leggy. She will probably be around 40 lbs. full grown. But perhaps on the taller side. This is hard to say! She’s just not as bulky as her sister.
Sullivan – Sullivan is the biggest pup, slightly ahead on confidence and a pretty relaxed pup. He’s one of the first to settle down and when we started working on manding-sitting, he was typically the first to fall in line. He is focused and maybe less distractible then the others. He is a big boy, and he will probably be 50-55 lbs. Sullivan and Sage do the best on leash and sitting at this point. This might be indicative of their focus and demeanor, perhaps slightly ahead in maturity.
Simon – Simon seems distracted and some situations make him a little shy, but other times he seems like the most relaxed, chilled out pup in the group! He is so calm and was even completely nonreactive when he got his microchip shot from the vet (those hurt!). I think he is really laid back! He is a little smaller than Sullivan, and our guess is he’ll be around 50 lbs.
Saylor – Saylor is a little more sensitive than the others. Perhaps still maturing in some areas. He’s a little less confident, and definitely a follower, not dominant or alpha in any way. I think he’ll grow in areas of confidence with new sights and experiences over the next week or two. He’s definitely not shy of people in any way! He is very social just like the rest. We only see his lack of confidence come out when he’s taken to a new room or to the patio and he seems more hesitant than the others. He takes a little longer to settle down in the crate by himself. Just some examples that he is a little less sure of himself. He’ll get there though! We expect him to be around 40-45 lbs.
Sawyer – Sawyer has grown in size and in confidence even since the open house! He had a growth spurt and he is no longer the smallest pup as he had always been. He is more sure of himself everyday. He gets a little distracted on leash, curious and loses focus. But they’re all developing at slightly different paces, as every litter always does. He’s not the more sensitive little guy that he was a week ago. He will probably be 40-45 lbs.
Last, here’s a picture of Sadie when she was a pup. Kinda helpful I think, to see how they might turn out!
February 27, 2025 – Sadie and Tucker’s pups are growing and are starting their home stretch toward leaving us. We are so busy these days with crate training, leash training and lots of other interactions that continue to condition them and make them ready for their families and for their lives! We love each of them and are starting to see their sweet personalities come through a little bit. Stella is fun and adventurous, Sawyer is more cautious and doesn’t like to be the leader. All seem really adaptable, confident and bonded to us humans, just as we expect. They’re getting better and better at sitting. It takes some patience on our end, as they get so excited when we have their dinner tray in our hands, or approach the pen to pick one of them up. Typical labradoodles, they compete for our attention and so when their in their pack, there’s some jealousy and competing. Today, they were mostly quiet in their crates as they are learning that they have to settle down in there, learning to be content by themselves. So important for their overall long-term temperament and it will be critical for families to follow through on crate training when they come home!
Here are the pictures we took of them, now six weeks old!
February 21, 2025 – Sadie and Tucker’s pups are changing so fast at this point! They’re happy, alert much of the day, and love to play and romp. They love to be held and are fully bonding to us humans, just as we want. They still are pretty focused on mama, but they realize that good stuff comes from us humans as well. They track us and watch intently to see what we’re doing (another trait we strive for) and they love to be held or picked up. We’re starting to work on “manding” where they must sit to get any attention. They don’t fully get it yet, but they will soon. We’re teaching them that everything good in life happens when they sit nicely. They’re superstars at using their litter box, and they are loving their mixture of kibble mush and raw diet (NW Naturals dehydrated food) fed a few times a day, while mama still nurses them periodically. We pulled them each away for individual photos and here are some shots of them hanging in their puppy pen.
February 13, 2025 – Sadie and Tucker’s puppies are growing up fast! They were introduced to a litter box in their pen last week, and almost immediately all began using it. They seem a little extra smart, and that’s not a surprise. Their mama Sadie is one of the most intelligent of our mamas. Sadie can easily figure out how to open a door or gate, or open drawers and cabinets. We realized she likes to explore a little at night, so we had to move the treats to a higher level. lol She’s incredible.
The pups were introduced to mushy kibble yesterday to help supplement their meals and give mama a little break. They loved it!
Each day they are getting some play time outside of their pen in our play area. They aren’t chasing and romping yet, but they are definitely more interactive with each other and are learning to explore more.
Daily we introduce them to more and more “scary” new sounds. They listen to fireworks, thunderstorms, blenders, vacuums, traffic, airplanes and more, in the comfort and safety of their litter. This helps condition them for life and helps create anxiety-free dogs. So important! We also use a blow dryer on them after their daily baths, all for more conditioning. They’re already fairly non-reactive to all these “scary” things we introduce them to. They’re doing great and are exactly where we want them to be at this stage.
We are loving this litter! Here they are at four weeks old.
February 6, 2025 – Sadie and Tucker’s puppies are changing fast! They are learning how to play and it’s fun to watch them begin to wrestle with each other. They aren’t noticing toys yet, not ready to romp and chase yet, but it won’t be long. Today we’re going to bring them out for their first real play time outside of the pen and we’ll see how they do. Most likely, they’ll wear out after a few minutes and want to go back to sleep. They are starting to hear now, and so we’ve started their sound conditioning. This is another important step in developing nonreactive, calm temperaments!
Yesterday they listened to fireworks all day, and today we’ve been playing loud thunderstorm sounds. We’ll keep introducing them to new “scary” noises each day until they leave us. Here are the pictures we took of them today, at three weeks old!
January 30, 2025 – Sadie and Tucker’s puppies are doing very well! Their eyes opened yesterday and today, they are attempting to walk, though not very well. LOL. They stumble around, and they poop out almost immediately and go right back to sleep. They are so snuggly and we are loving the smell of puppy breath again here at our house! Mostly, they still just sleep and nurse, and they still don’t like being apart from mama for more than a couple of minutes. We pull each of them away throughout the day for baths, massages, snuggles and their biosensor steps. All so important. Here are the cutie pies at two weeks old!
January 23, 2025 – Sadie and Tucker’s pups have nearly doubled their weights and are all doing very well! Sadie continues to be a good mama, rarely leaving their side. We have to coax her to even go potty outside. She doesn’t want to leave them even for a minute. The pups are a week old, and they are well into their bio-sensor steps, something we do each and every day. Doing daily massages, running them under warm water and putting them through the bio-sensor steps, is our way of conditioning them and connecting with them at such a young age. They can’t see or hear yet, but human touch and neurological conditioning is something that is vital in their development and lifelong temperaments. They are a very quiet and happy bunch, and all they want to do at this point is eat and sleep. Mama is so attentive that they barely need to move to be cared for. We took a bunch of photos of them in their pen today. Later next week, we’ll post individual pictures of each so that you can see who’s who. Here they are!
January 17, 2025 – We’re so excited to have puppies in our home again! So happy that Sadie and Tucker‘s puppies are here. It’s been a while. Sadie went into labor in the early morning hours of January 14, and it was peaceful and uneventful. All of the pups are healthy and Sadie is doing great. Sadie is a wonderful mama. She loves motherhood and takes great care of her pups. We’re always so happy when we see pups that arrive with really good weights. And they’ve continued to gain each day since they arrived! On day four, we’ll be starting the puppies on the biosensor program to start the earlies and most important phase of their temperament conditioning. We’re excited to welcome to our world our “S” Litter: Saylor, Sullivan, Simon, Sawyer, Sage and Stella!
