Field Trip to Home Depot

 We took the puppies for a ride in the car today.  It was quite the adventure to load 14 puppies into the car and head off to the local Home Depot.  They love to have us bring the puppies into the store and give the customers and staff an opportunity to love on the puppies.  We enjoy the time with folks as they meet our dogs.  There are always lots of questions about the dogs and about breeding.  We have gotten to know the staff at the store and they always look forward to when we have litters to socialize.

 Once again the puppies were a huge hit.  I didn't make it past the front entry way before staff and customers alike were petting the dogs and holding them.  The puppies were great and were very calm as people touched them, held them, and loved on them.  This is such a good experience for these little guys.  Oregon is a dog lover's state and each of the people who stopped were talking about the dogs they have at home, as well as asking about our breeding program.

Providing new experiences, meeting new people, having new sites and smells and sounds is great to help the puppies feel comfortable as they adjust to unfamiliar experiences in the future.  As you take your puppy home I encourage you to do the same: take your puppy with you on car rides, and introduce them to as many new places and people as you can while keeping them safe.  Bring treats for people to give them so that they associate new experiences with rewards!

 After spending some time in the new settings the puppies were worn out and took a long nap.

They are also enjoying our puppy run now that the weather is cooperative and we aren't having rain.  They love to cuddle together in the dog house and then go out to run and play.  These two litters are adjusting well to life.  Soon we will be getting them ready to go to their new homes.  We are already lining up trips on airlines to deliver them to Sacramento, Washington DC, Boston, and New Jersey.  Other puppies will be going to new homes closer to us.  So many new experiences for them to enjoy.

We still have four puppies from these litters available, so if you want a wonderful puppy, contact us quickly!

Puppies are growing!!

I have been enjoying the two litters we have at our house these past weeks.  Scarlett's puppies are a little over four weeks old now, and Bella's puppies are five and a half weeks.  They are playing together through the day, and get along very well.  We have them in the family room/kitchen area with us for at least a few hours a day.  They play, chew on our socks, and fill our laps.  They also do a great job filling our hearts.  

As soon as we sit on the floor they swamp us.  These puppies are very people friendly.  Their tails wag, it seems like their eyes twinkle, and I am sure they have a smile on their faces.  They come running up to us and jump into our laps.  After they spend some time with us they go off to find a comfortable place to lay down and do their second favorite thing--nap.  While they nap we clean up their pens, and get them ready for the evening.  

Yesterday and today we introduced the puppies to the back yard.  They were not sure about the grass because it was still wet (this is Oregon in winter after all) and a little cool.  They did a great job figuring out that it is fun to run around and explore the new smells and textures.  I think exploring may be a rival for them with napping.  They still love time with people more than either of those.  As we got down on the grass with them they once again swarmed our laps and decided that the grass is a great place to be with us.  

Soon we will take the puppies on longer car rides and introduce them to places like Home Depot where they can meet all sorts of new people and get new sites, sounds smells, and textures to add to their variety of experiences.  We are starting to work on delivery dates, transportation decisions, etc. as we prepare these puppies for their transition to their forever homes.  This weekend we will have folks over for the Superbowl (the Ravens are playing and we are die hard fans relocated from Baltimore) and those folks will have an opportunity to help the puppies with new people as well.  

Please keep checking back to follow up on these litters.  I will post more stories soon.

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14 Puppies at Home!!!

We have 14 puppies at home now that we have picked up Bella's litter from her guardian in Sisters, Oregon.   Scarlett's six puppies are thriving up in my bedroom as we take care of them.  You can see from the pictures that they have opened their eyes and ears.  They wake me up at night with their barking and yelling.  It is so funny!  They love to snuggle with each other, with momma, and with us.  We sit in their pen at different times and they come up to us to smell us and see if we can feed them.  This week we will begin feeding Scarlett's puppies a mix of ground kibble and goat's milk.  After that we will be moving them to kibble and water.  They really need to have the nutrients that the kibble provides.
We also have begun treating the puppies with preventative medications for worms.  At three, five, and seven weeks we treat the puppies to prevent any worms that they may come into contact with.  We weighed the two litters, trimmed their claws, and gave them medicine.  They were all troopers!  You can see the range of colors in the puppies from these pictures.  Scarlett's litter is darker.  They are all dark apricot to red in color.  Bella's litter has more of a range and has one that is a very light apricot and goes all the way to dark red.  Bella's litter is a little older and you can begin to see the wavy fleece coats that they will have.
All of these puppies have great conformation and the boxy noses and faces that we are breeding toward.  At this point it is too early to know how their little bodies are developing, but they all look like outstanding examples of the Australian Labradoodle breed!
We are taking deposits on these puppies and have a few left, but if you want to get one of these puppies it is important to contact us quickly at:
Steve@evergreenmanorlabradoodles.com.

We will soon be taking the puppies on car rides, introducing them to new places and people.  One of our favorites is to take them to Home Depot and let them get to know the workers there who love to hold them!  It is so good for them to be in new places, have new sites and sounds, and to meet new people.  Stay tuned for more updates!

Scarlett's puppies are here!!

Scarlett and Bentley have produced a wonderful litter of six puppies!  These beauties were born on January 2, 2013 and have brought joy to our lives in these past three days.  We have three boys and three girls.  They are all apricot to red in color and will have a beautiful fleece coat.  They will be medium size when mature (about 35 pounds and 20 inches at the shoulder).  

Right now these puppies are just getting familiar with their world.  They are smelling their way to momma, finding her to suckle, and crying when they are cold or hungry.  Mom is doing a great job taking care of them and we love watching Scarlett care for her puppies.  

The babies will be ready to go home in March and we are still taking applications for them.  We have two of the six already spoken for, but still have four available.  To apply for this litter go to our on line application on our web page (www.evergreenmanorlabradoodles.com) and send us a completed application.  Once we have reviewed your application we will talk with you to cover any questions we have and then you can send in your deposit to hold your place on the puppy list.  

Two Upcoming Breeders

We have received the results from the health tests on our Seattle's Sundance and Evergreen's Tank.  Both dogs have passed their breeding health tests with flying colors!  We will be bringing these two dogs in as breeders as soon as they are mature.

Sundance is a cream colored, fleece coated medium and she will be about 19 inches at her shoulder when she reaches maturity.  She will be around 32-38 pounds.  She loves to play with people and other dogs.  When people come to visit our puppies and they meet Sundance and Tank, they almost always ask if the are available.  The good news is that now that they have passed their health tests, we are looking for a guardian home for both Sundance and Tank.  We are looking for families or individuals who live within a short distance from our home in Newberg, Oregon.  Guardians will need to provide a safe home environment and loving attention to our dogs.  All reproductive vet care is covered by us, and regular vet care is covered by the guardians.  We ask that you feed high quality food and provide lots of love and socialization.

Evergreen's Tank is a male who is standard in size and will be about 23-25 inches at the shoulder when mature.  He will weigh over 50 pounds.  He is our gentle giant.  He loves to play with people and dogs.  He has a deep red fleece coat.  When people visit our puppies they ask if they can get a puppy with a coat "that color" and point to Tank.  He loves to lie down at our feet, unless our granddaughter, Annalee, has come over to play.  If Annalee is here Tank wants to play with her and give her kisses.  

We love both these dogs, and feel the bittersweet of placing them in other homes.  We want to have them around us, and yet we know they need to have homes of their own.  

You can check out our application on the web page (www.EvergreenManorLabradoodles.com) and go to the Guardian Home page.  You can also call us at 301-335-5920.  

Two Growing Litters

 Scarlett's litter continues to grow into small dogs, and they are having a blast in the puppy run we have built for them, as well as in our fenced field where they can play with us and chase each other.  They are eating, playing, meeting new people, and having a wonderful life.  You can see from the pictures below that they are loving life.

 We also have been giving the puppies their medicines to make sure they stay healthy.  We have given them two doses of de-worming medicine, and their first immunizations.  They will have one last dose of de-worming medicine before they go home to their new families.  

 We had friends over to the house last week to enjoy the evening and to spend time together.  We had about 15 people over.  All of the ladies went down into the yard to sit with Scarlett's puppies and play with them.  The puppies loved the attention and were snuggling up with the ladies.  As it got late the puppies all decided to go to sleep on the grass as they sat with the people.  We had to wake them up to take them back their pen and to make sure they were safely settled in for the night.

Meggie's puppies have just reached a milestone.  They have opened their eyes and ears.  They are barking at each other now and crawling aroud the pen.  This weekend they will get their first dose of de-worming medicine (given at 3, 5, and 7 weeks of age).  Today I gave them their first taste of goat's milk from a bowl.  They are so much fun to watch as they discover this new treat.  They smell it in the pen, and start walking around trying to find the source of that wonderful smell.  They then step into the bowl and start licking the milk off of their paws.  As they recognize this is a great food source they learn to put their faces into the bowl and lick up the milk.  Their next lesson is how to put their mouth in the bowl without putting their noses into the bowl.  They have to learn not to inhale the milk, but how to swallow it instead.  It is quite funny to watch them figure this all out.

We will keep you up to date on the progress of the puppies.  Please check back and please let your friends know about us.

Steve

Two Litters at Home

We have fifteen puppies at our home right now.  Scarlett and Seeker's eight puppies that are five weeks old, and Meggie and Seeker's puppies that are ten days old.

Scarlett's puppies are between four and six pounds and are running, playing, and very personable.  They are in a pen in our new puppy room that allows them to get used to a crate and to use the potty park (artificial grass in a plastic tray to teach them where to potty and to get them used to a grass texture) as well as a play area.

  

They are also outside in the puppy run for a chunk of the day to give them a place to explore and play so that they do not get bored.  

 

We recently took them all to Home Depot to get them used to car rides (many more coming) and to new sites, sounds, smells, and people.  We took them into the store two at a time (two people each carrying one puppy) and we never made it past the front door.  The staff wanted to hold, love, and pet each puppy.  

  The people entering the store wanted to stop and love on the puppies.  The puppies were superstars and enjoyed all the attention.  In three weeks they will be starting to go to their new homes!  All of you who have bought one of these dogs will need to talk with me about how you want to pick them up, or how you want us to get them to you.  

 Meggie's puppies are only ten days old and their eyes and ears are not yet open.  They stay in the whelping pen where we have kept them since birth.  

They have already had a car ride (they were born either at the guardian home or en route back to our house as my boys picked them up) but since their first ride they have been in our home.  This weekend their their eyes and ears  will open and after a few days we will move them down to the puppy room.  Shortly after they move down the older puppies will be making their way to their new homes!  

We are already giving the older puppies their medicine to de-worm them.  Soon they will get their first round of shots.  Those who will be spayed or neutered will have their appointment at about seven weeks.  (If you have told us you want to have a spay or neuter contract with us to do this later please confirm with me so that we can arrange for that in the bill of sale.)  We will do the last round of de-worming medicine at the seventh week.  These puppies will go home healthy and ready to fit into their new families.  

Breeders on the way

 We are excited to let you know that we have two up and coming breeders who will be joining our program after we get their test results and they continue to grow up.  The first is Seattle's Sundance who comes to us from Jan Probus.  She is the daughter of Greta and Chipotle.  She has the most amazing personality and loves everyone she meets.  She is gentle with our one year old granddaughter, Annalee, and you can see her making Annalee giggle on our You Tube video of the two of them.

You can find the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlb8IYhLbtc&feature=plcp.  Sundance is a wonderful girl who makes friends with everyone she meets.  She is a medium and has a cream with soft fleece, and has been tested.  We are waiting for the results of the hip and elbows tests.  We will begin breeding her in the winter or spring months.  

 Our other new breeder is Tank, who is growing into a standard size.  He is five months old and already is bigger than his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.  The vet saw him yesterday and thought he was a two year old.  Tank is very friendly and relaxed.  Everyone who meets him wants to take him home.  He is a red that is holding his color, and has a soft fleece coat.  He will sit down with you and soak up all the love you have to give.  Then, he gives it back.

Tank roams around the house and yard and entertains himself until he finds you, and then you are his best friend.

Tank also gets along with all the dogs we have.  Whenever we are out and he meets another dog he has found a new friend.

If you are looking for dogs with great temperaments you want to mark these two dogs and keep an eye on when they have litters.
If you are a breeder looking for a red male Tank is a breeder to keep your eyes on.

Meggie and Seeker honeymoon

I want to let you all know that we have bred Meggie with Seeker.  We have been tracking Meggie's progesterone levels.  Monday a week ago she was at .02 and Saturday she was at 1.3.  She ovulates when her progesterone level reaches 5.  

We also watch her behavior.  Yesterday she was crying to be around our male puppy who is not mature, but is an intact male.  She followed him around the house and was "flagging" him (raising her tail and waving her rear end in his face) and trying to entice him into some romance.  I knew it was time to bring our mature male, Seeker, into the dance.  I picked Seeker up today from his guardian home and brought him home.  Meggie was very interested and the two had a "tie" almost immediately.  A tie is when the two  have a successful breeding.  This tie was very peaceful and both dogs were equally interested in each other.  This was a great breeding. 

We will follow up with another progesterone test and then follow up breedings every couple of days.  The importance of the progesterone test is to tell us that Meggie has indeed crossed the "5.0" barrier so we know that she has indeed ovulated.  Once we know when she ovulated we can gauge when the puppies will be born.  We are looking forward to this litter.  One puppy will become a breeder in North Carolina, and one will be a breeder in Holland.  Four others will be pets in other parts of the country.  

Scarlett continues to have an uneventful pregnancy.  We have he ultrasound to confirm pregnancy and number of puppies.  That test will be run on May 29th.  Once we get the results we will post that on our web page blog and will also contact all those who have put down deposits on the puppies.  It is going to be about four weeks later that we have the puppies born.  Exciting days ahead!!

Meggie is almost ready

We have had a progesterone test earlier this week to determine when Meggie is fertile and ready to breed.  She will need to hit level 5 before she has ovulated.  Once she ovulates she will have a few days before she is ready to be bred and her eggs can become fertilized.  The test she took on Tuesday placed her at .02 and so we are going to retest her this Friday to find out if she will be ready to breed over the weekend.

There is a lot of science as well as art involved in breeding great dogs.  We want to do our best to make sure that we are producing the best Australian Labradoodles we can in terms of health, temperament, and aesthetic beauty.  The puppies from this litter will be small mediums or large minis.  They should have red to apricot colored coats, and they will have beautiful fleece coats.  

Scarlett is almost ready for her ultrasound to definitively confirm her pregnancy and to give us a first sense of how many puppies she is carrying.   That will be a very exciting day for us here at Evergreen Manor Labradoodles.  We always enjoy knowing that there is evidence of the work we have done and we love to tell the families who are on the puppy list when the pregnancy is confirmed.  We have an appointment for the ultrasound on Tuesday May 29th.  Look for an email that evening if you are one of our buyers for this litter!

We will keep you all updated about where things stand with the breedings and with the ultrasounds.

Steve

Meggie is also in heat!

Great news!  We learned today that Meggie is also in heat.  She will be tested for her progesterone levels in a few days and once we know she is close to fertile we will be breeding her to Seeker.  That means that in a little over eight weeks we will have her puppies here (around the Fourth of July), and after that it will be another eight weeks before we are able to deliver them to their forever families (Labor Day Weekend?).  We have already closed the reservation list and have people who are preparing to welcome their new family members into their homes.  These puppies will be going to homes in Oregon, Washington, and even to the Netherlands!  We have two breeders coming out of this litter.  

Scarlett is doing very well and is several weeks into her pregnancy.  In a couple of weeks we will be having an ultrasound done to confirm the pregnancy and to give us an idea of how many puppies she will be having.  We have at least one family on a waiting list in case we have more puppies with Scarlett than the reservations we have already taken.  Scarlett is known for having eight to ten puppies per litter, and we may well have more puppies than the number already spoken for on our puppy list.  We may know more clearly what to expect once we have the results from the ultrasound.

Stay tuned, we are in the midst of exciting days here at Evergreen  Manor Labradoodles.