We give our puppies
the best start in life we can, when we have a litter of puppies we make sure we
fit our lifestyle around the puppies to ensure they receive 24 hour care and
companionship. They start life in the bedroom then when they are beginning to
explore the whelping box they are moved into the dining room, the 4 sided pen
grows with the puppies until it takes over the kitchen giving them plenty of
room for a bed at one end and toilet area at the other near the outside doors.
they spend short periods of time playing in the outdoor puppy pen always
supervised and gradually built up to longer periods, this gives them the
experience of meeting their older relatives and importantly getting used to
hearing the sometimes scary everyday outdoor sounds that we take for granted.
Our children spend their free time playing with the young puppies and we
encourage friends and family of different ages to visit the puppies, even the
postman and the lollipop lady play their part and are willing to meet them.
When the puppies are
5 weeks old they are introduced to the grooming table and to begin with a
couple of minutes with a very soft brush building up the time as they grow,
also Jane uses the hairdryer on her own hair near to the pen and the puppies
soon come to explore what the new game is all about. We play the sounds scary
CD at different intervals throughout the day to accustom them to everyday and
new sounds, when they are playing and getting too rough they are corrected. At
6 weeks the puppies are introduced to wearing soft collars and later when the
leads are attached they tug between themselves accustoming them to gentle
restraint eventually they are only to pleased to wear a collar and lead.
Beardies are very clever and soon want to be housetrained we begin this when
they are ready to learn and soon find they are only too pleased to head for the
door when they need to go. We take them out in the car regularly usually 2 at a
time on short distances.
when you take home
one of our puppies you don’t leave with just a sheet of paper and a wave,
you will have a bag of food, chews, grooming equipment including shampoo,
grooming spray, thornits ear powder, toothbrush & paste, toys, bedding,
worming record, pedigree and registration papers will be included in your file
consisting of pages of useful information on caring, feeding, training,
socialising, grooming, whether this is your first or sixth Beardie all the
information is there for you to read at your leisure, not condensed into 10
minutes the day you pick up your puppy.
We encourage new
owners to visit their puppy when ever they can, if you've travelled far then an
initial meeting and again when you pick your puppy up is fine but from 2 of our
litters. The lucky puppy was staying close by and the new owners came to visit
every week from 3 weeks until they took the puppy home which was nice. we like
to hear all about the puppies when they leave us and if possible try to meet up
with the puppies within the first year from our experience owners are only too
pleased to update us on the puppies progress, the wonderful owners that choose
to keep in touch will receive every year a birthday/Christmas card and present
for the puppy.
Ending note
Our first litter is
as important as the next we aim never to become complacent about breeding we
are proud of our puppies and their owners and thank them all for giving our
babies such loving homes see our feedback page for information, and finally
thank you for taking time to read this.