hi everybody Claire here from vanayya labradoodles and we're with the blonde
brownies litter of multi generation Australian labradoodles and this is your
one week update these puppies were born on October the 20th and they're a
rainbow litter and last week we talked about their colors this week we're going
to talk a bit about what they've done over the past week how spirits managing
and also give you a bit of information on choosing a trainer and a vet so we
hope you've enjoyed the video be sure to like it subscribe to our Channel and put
any comments you have below so let's get started with the video first of all
you'll see today the difference is we have all the puppies but we have no
spirit spirit is quite content now after one week that she's okay to be out of
the nest and leave the babies for a good 15 20 minutes now she knows that they're
doing well and she's quite secure in the knowledge that they're warm comfortable
and she knows they're safe where we have them located as you may remember from
last week the maternity room has glass doors on it so the wind spirit is in the
maternity room she's able to see out and hear what's going on in the house but
the dogs the rest of the dogs who live in the house they can't get in and
disturb the puppies so that gives her a large level of security so she's right
now out in the doodle den with all the other dogs and she's enjoying a treat we
give her lots of extra bones right now to enjoy so that she has more calories
from the bones and she also has a little bit of relief from her puppies she also
gets lots of calcium from eating the bones too so that's an added benefit so
we're still feeding her extra she's at about 300 percent of her regular diet
she is on a fully raw diet and that consists of beef lamb lamb tripe and
some chicken and there's lots of fresh bones and organ meat included in there
and then we do a little bit of extra home cooking for her to spirits a real
fan of the rotisserie chicken so we make her some whole chicken every week and
then we chop it up for her and put it in there to give her a little bit of an
extra-special added incentive to eat lost it's hard
for her to to eat as much as she needs to and it's important she keeps her
calories up then on top of that she has lots of dried sardines sardines also
give her much-needed oils and calcium as well so those are sprinkled throughout
her food and she just adores them the other dogs get a bit jealous that they
don't have as many treats as she does so now for the puppies this week they're
still in their neonatal stage they stay in their neonatal stage until they're
about three weeks old they really are basically without any senses other than
their ability to smell they still can't hear anything they still can't hear
anything and as you watch them hear sleeping you'll see from time to time
that they they jerk you can see them and it looks like maybe they're dreaming and
they're running in their dreams but what that's really all about is the puppies
building muscle this is Nature's Way of having the puppies sort of exercise even
while they're not able to really move about so now what has happened is their
front legs have developed enough strength and coordination that they're
able to crawl fairly well so if one of the puppies is a considerable distance
from Spirit when she comes in and they want to nurse at the milk bar they
they're able now to crawl quite rapidly over to her they use their noses of
course to know that she's here because they can't hear that she's arrived and
they can't see that she's arrived but they can definitely smell when she
arrives so they all rush over like mad and they all have very well-developed
voices last week in our video I told you that mister green collar here was the
talker of the group he and Miss gray collar here the black phantom it's funny
they're the two black ones and they're the two mousy once that's changed though
grey collar girl is now quite quiet we don't hear her voice hardly ever so
let's take a look at mr. green collar for this week mr. green collars you'll
remember is our little black boy with the beautiful right chest and the
beautiful beautiful white paws he's so cute he's a little bit worried
picked him up and there is a good example of his voice so we'll put him
back he doesn't want to have a cuddle right now so you can see he's still
quite vocal and he's quite able to tell us when he doesn't like something
they're all gonna start moving around now next to him is Miss peach collar
beech is our little darling little brown and white girl middle bebe she's quite
quiet she's pretty much in the middle of the pack she uses her brains quite a bit
to find a good spot at the milk bar as she said doing very well in terms of her
weight gain they've all doubled their birth weights pretty much now doing
fantastic experience we're really doing well with keeping them nice and plump
then mr. blue collar here mr. blue is our chocolate sable with the really dark
face and mr. blue collar he too is pretty easygoing you can hear
him talking a little bit but he doesn't do the great big shrieks like mr. mr. a
green collar Oh made a liar out of me he can but he said we don't hear him very
often he's pretty middle of the pack I'm
pretty easygoing that's blue collar then we have mr. or miss rather yellow color
here and Miss yellow collar was such a sweetie pie she's very quiet oh she's
got a great big yawn there she's very easygoing very quiet really soft gentle
little girl never pushy but she still gets her fair share at the milk bar then
over here is our little black phantom girl we were talking about grey collar
girl gray collar used to be quite the talker whenever she needed something and
wanted to get help to get attention paid to her and she's quieted down quite a
bit now she's very very interested in being with the other dogs she gets a
great comfort from being in there with everyone and getting all snuggled up
she's a real cuddler and then oh you can see yellow collar here she's decided to
plonk herself on top of black collar boy I'll take mr. black collar boy up next
he's still the biggest in the litter and he's our beautiful handsome black and
white party he's the most independent out of all of the puppies he doesn't
mind if he's off by himself as he frequently is he's very very well able
to find himself the prime spot at the milk bar but he doesn't mind if he's not
in the number one position he's quite happy to be anywhere at the milk bar and
he's also very happy to be lying off by himself and doesn't feel the need to be
in the group as much as some of the other ones do particularly gray collar
girl she's a real group girl a groupie put her over there him rather and then
here we have mr. brown collar mr. brown collar is very quiet boy he's the
chocolate sable hey buddy he's very very very quiet you hardly even know that
he's in the litter no complaining no fussing if he's not at the best spot he
just goes okay you can have my place and he goes on and finds his own place so
he's a very retiring guy at this point keep in mind that all these explanations
and descriptions I'm giving you up their personalities right now those are likely
to change every week these puppies are changing rapidly and don't forget in the
eight weeks we have them they're ready to go home to you so it's a lot of
change in one in eight weeks and this is miss purple collar girl our solid little
chocolate girl he can be a bit of a squawk her sometimes but she mostly
enjoys being with the group she loves to be extra warm and you usually find her
underneath somebody she's a very sweet and happy little girl so that's pretty
much all that the puppies have done this week in terms of development next week
we're going to have a big change and we'll have some open eyes if not all of
the eyes open so that's always a big event so now what I want to talk to you
about is choosing a vet and choosing a trainer
it may seem early to start doing that but it takes a while to get the right
one especially the right vet so the first thing I want you to do is get some
recommendations from friends and family members who live near you
than who they've enjoyed as a vet and and why what was that they liked about
that particular vet a great resource for all of you is to go on the van Isle
doodle owners Facebook page that's our private group for face for
van Isle doodle puppy owners and ask them for recommendations tell people
where you live what area you're in and they'll be happy to help you out and the
other thing I suggest that you do is get a list of questions ready and then make
an appointment with the vet and pay for that appointment go in and ask for a
consultation you can get a good idea a good starting point for vets if you go
on their websites and you can get a feel for the sort of clinic that they run how
they approach things so if holistic medicine is important to
you for instance look for a vet that makes mention of natural ways of dealing
with things if you're more of a traditional type person then that won't
be as important to you but if it is something that matters to you then how
that is one of your questions ask them what their protocol is so if you come in
and you have a dog that has an ear infection is the first course line of
defense for them going to be an antibiotic or are they going to suggest
something else are they going to give you recommendations in the future for
how to avoid getting ear infections in your dog so that's one thing that you're
going to want to consider the other thing that matters to me in particular
is what's their emergency policy is it those vets that are on call is there a
number that you call is it a dispatch center is it a shared emergency or do
they make you go to the emergency clinic I'm not a big fan of emergency clinics
of course they they have a very important role but if you can have your
own vet or abet with in your own clinic available after hours if you have an
emergency to me that's just better they already know your dog you know them
everybody's comfortable with one another some clinics aren't set up to be able to
have dogs as emergency so that they don't have overnight care available so
it doesn't mean that it's not a good vet it's just something you need to be aware
of the other thing you want to ask the vet is how familiar are they with
labradoodles see if they know they Prinze between a multi generation
Labradoodle in an early gen if they know the difference between an Australian
Labradoodle and a Labradoodle these are all things that you've learned you've
learned those from your meetings with me already and you want your vet to know
those things again if they don't and they're open to being hearing about it
from you and being taught great but if they are not really particularly
interested in labradoodles overall that might not be your best choice many vets
are actually purebred show dog breeders and some of them have an aversion to
hybrids such as labradoodles those are the kinds of ones I'd say you might want
to avoid then the other thing you want to ask them is their familiarity with
ESM ESN is early spay neuter or Pediatrics baya neuter your puppies are
all going to be spayed and neutered before they go home to you so you want a
vet who knows what that is understands it and is at least not
opposed to it some vets have strong opinions and and don't favor it
generally because they aren't aware of what is involved and you can tell them
that your puppy is not going to be over 40 pounds and that usually puts their
mind at ease the only time there's any concern is if you're dealing with a
large breed and a dog who's going to mature to over 60 pounds and then the
other thing that we like to ask vets is what about tighter testing part of your
health warranty with Van Isle doodles is going to be that you tighter test your
dog as opposed to giving them boosters there's a lot of reasons for that we'll
go into that in another video session but ask your vet do you do tighter
testing are you in favor of tighter testing that's something that I would
really find important for a vet that I was going to be working with most vets
do do it now but you just want to double check for that and the other final thing
I would question them on is raw food your puppies are going to be weaned to
raw food and our recommendation is for you to follow with that all our dogs are
fed raw food and again that'll be the subject of another video but get the
best opinion on that you don't really want to deal with one who's entirely
again raw-food titers labradoodles ESN and
everything that your puppy is going to be in and half so it's a good starting
point those questions and of course you'll have your own now the other thing
you need to get lined up is a trainer part of your purchase contract and your
health warranty requires that you take your puppy to puppy socialization
classes and to training right away so you're going to want to get signed up
for those trainers that are well regarded and have good puppy programs
are usually booked quite far in advance the best puppy classes that we can
recommend for you is communique nine operating out near Brentwood Bay that's
Darcy you can contact me if you want her information other than that again go on
the Facebook owners page ask them who did you have as your trainer I live in I
live in Vancouver I live in North Van I live in Burnaby Squamish wherever you're
located ask the people that are in that area for recommendations that's usually
your best bet of all Darcy from communique nine is in Victoria so not
handy if you happen to be living in Pemberton or Whistler or somewhere
that's not on the island here or if you're in Port Hardy or
or Campbell River but ask ask again on the owners page we have puppies already
pretty much everywhere and also ask your friends if you've seen a dog that you
think is very well trained and well socialized ask them where did you go to
when your dog was a puppy those are usually your best sources of information
then again check the website look at the field see what it if it appeals to you
or not if it's the type of training that you think you would enjoy doing it's
really important that you work well with the trainer now something to keep in
mind is labradoodles are very what we call soft breed their temperaments are
gentle and easygoing and that's why everybody loves them so much so you need
to find a trainer who recognizes that and knows that that's how you work with
these dogs you also want to ask them if they use luring luring is when we train
with a treat if you've read the books I've recommended to you in dunbar
civilian Yola found out quite a bit about luring already and the other
method is called shaping and that's more of more a newer approach I guess you
would say or you wait for the puppy to do the behavior you are asking them to
learn and then reward them so if you want them to sit you encourage a
situation where they will sit but you don't use the treat to lure them into
the sit then when they sit you give them the treat
whereas luring you use the treat to encourage them even more to do the
behavior that you're looking for I like to do a combination of both myself but
if I had to choose a trainer I would choose one that does luring as opposed
to shaping and you also want to check to make sure that your trainer is certified
anybody can say they're a dog trainer with no certification whatsoever now if
you live near us there were all the ways into Victorian and I'm all Taylor who
works for us has positive results and she is a wonderful puppy trainer she's
happy to travel and again you can ask me and I will forward you her contact
information so those are your two things to start working on for this week it's
good to have these things set up also remember you are picking your puppy up
on December 27th it is during the holidays in a busy period your health
warranty does require you take your puppy in for a wellness exam within
three days of getting your puppy so I would suggest making the appointment
fairly soon do your vet interviews soon pick your vet and then get your
appointment in there so you don't run into problems over the holiday season so
again here's another little glimpse at the kids you can see mr. green collar is
just as I said he's still talking away and moving away and being a bit of a
fussbudget again don't don't beat him with a brush of thinking old he's going
to be a difficult puppy he'll probably end up being the easiest going and
quietest one of the bunch since he started off this way but they're all
doing great as I said they've all almost doubled their birth weights
they're strong very content and spirit is just being a fabulous mom to her
babies she gets that from her mama Bijou who was always our best mummy so we hope
you enjoyed the video and seeing all of the puppies and if you have any
questions be sure to post them below I'm happy to answer them all and we hope
you'll subscribe to our Channel thanks so much and we'll see you next
week with our next update
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