Bringing Puppies Home
Thank you for choosing one of our puppies. We know you will love the newest member of your family. Before you pick your puppy up, you may want to acquire the below items. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
No need to purchase a collar and leash, we send one home with you. If you would like a HARNESS, click this link to see our recommendation -
Acquire a crate (unless we are flying puppy home to you), bed, and decide where the puppy will sleep. Best crates to start with are the plastic ones - click this Link to Amazon to see our recommendation - CRATE
Acquire food and water dishes (stainless steel is best) - click this Link to Amazon to see our recommendation - DISH
Please see my link to Life’s Abundance Dog food -
Purchase NuVet Vitamins to assist with your puppies immunity. See our link for more information.
Acquire some basic grooming tools: brush, comb, nail clippers, slicker brush, and steel comb
Decide where your puppy will be potty trained outside
Find a vet
Find a good puppy training class or a trainer
As your puppy gets older, please see other recommendations that helps to make your life a bit easier!!
You will find that when your dog drinks, they drip water from their beard. The slobber stopper has helped us tremendously.
I love my elevated dog bed. They have the chew proof version and the more economical version.
Crate mats are good to have as well.
What is the best way to toilet train my puppy?
Crate training is a very successful way to train your puppy. Puppies do not like to mess in their beds. First thing in the morning take your puppy out of the crate, put him/her on a leash and take directly to the spot you have chosen for your puppy to go potty. While they are very young continue to take your puppy outside to the same spot every hour or so while he/she is out of the crate. Soon you will increase these times to longer periods. After each meal wait about 15 minutes and take puppy out to the same spot. If they do not eliminate, leave the potty spot to play, etc. and go back 10 minutes later to try again. It will not take long for puppy to go to that same spot each time she/he needs to go potty.
A good way to also train your puppy to let you know when he/she needs to potty is to place a bell on your door and each time you take him/her to potty ring it — eventually they will catch on and begin to ring it when they need to go out.
Grooming
Bathing: Australian Labradoodles do not require frequent bathing. If they get muddy they should be allowed to dry and then brushed to remove debris in their coats.
Brushing: The amount of brushing is dependant upon life style. If your labradoodle is mostly indoors you may only need to brush every couple of weeks. If your labradoodle spends a lot of time outdoors you may need to brush out weekly.
Brush to the skin, working from under the coat. Work from the feet up to the body and the tail to the head. Brush in the direction of the hair, but add small amounts of coat to each stroke. At approximately eight months old a puppy coat needs very regular brushing to strip out the puppy coat so it doesn’t tangle and get matted in the adult coat.
Eyes: Bath the eyes with clear water when needed to clean and clip away bothersome hair.
Ears: Clean ears regularly with an ear cleaner. Fill ear and gently massage to bring dirt to the surface. Use a cotton ball to wipe out cleaner and dirt. Clip hair from base of the ear.
Nails: Trim every six weeks
Sanitary areas: The hair under the tail and the belly should be shaved to prevent mattes and keep clean.
It is very important to find a good groomer that either has experience with grooming the Australian labradoodles or are willing to listen as to how to groom the Australian labradoodles.
If allergies in the family do not over bath your dog — this creates a drying of skin with non shedding dogs and can create more dander.
In addition to brushing weekly from skin out, keeping eyes clean and cleaning the ears weekly your dog may need to go to a groomer and be trimmed a couple or few times a year.
Make sure to have the groomer only scissor cut the face area — it should evenly be trimmed through the face, ears length should be cut short and layered so they don’t have the long droopy poodle look, the surfer do at the top of head should be longer (pull it down to eye level and trim there so that when you let go it springs back up) they face should still appear shaggy looking and never be cut down short or you will lose the Australian look.
The snout and beard evenly trimmed with the rest of face — never ever allow them to shave the face, snout or around the eyes.
The body can be trimmed shorter or left longer — never shorter though then a five blade — even if the body is trimmed shorter the head should be left shaggy and blended with scissors into the back of the neck.
To help eliminate knots in the movement areas such as arm and leg pits or privates you can have them trim in those spots a bit shorter.
Training Your Australian Labradoodle Puppy
Training is fun and very rewarding for both you and your puppy. Puppies have an amazing capacity to learn complex demands quickly. We have tips below and information concerning Baxter and Bella’s Online training———-please take the time to see all of the below training details!!!!!
Start Training as soon as you obtain your puppy. Puppies learn rapidly but their attention span may be short, so spend 10-15 minutes twice daily.
Training should be conducted when the puppy is not excited and when the home environment is quiet. Once the puppy has learned a response in one environment, move the training location to progressively more complex and more stimulating environments. That is, the puppy will have to be trained in each environment that you wish it to respond in.
Learning occurs more rapidly if one person trains the puppy first and then the other family members get involved. Train the puppy using one-word commands like "come", "sit", "down" and heel". Try not to use the puppy's name in association with the command, as too much verbiage is confusing and slows the learning process.
Reward appropriate behavior as soon as possible after giving the command (best within 1/2 second). Give valued rewards such as food touch and praise every time the puppy responds to a command. You will quickly learn which reward is more valued by your puppy. Once the response is learned, give the rewards intermittently. This will result in rapid learning and make the response more permanent.
If the puppy fails at any level of training, stop, don't reward and the training again at a simpler level. How consistently a puppy responds to a command is a function of the degree of training. If a puppy responds only when it feels like it or when the environment is quiet, start again and train more intensely.
Be patient, never punish. The opposite to a reward is no reward, not punishment. A punishment which causes pain or excitement does not work and generally causes problems. Punishment may also interfere with the owner/animal bond. If the puppy is doing something that is inappropriate, distract it or use the a reward for responding to a command which is incompatible with the unwanted behavior.
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Feeding Your Puppy
By the time you take your puppy home he/she will be eating dry kibble three times a day. We feed our puppies Life’s Abundance Puppy food. The amount that you feed your puppy at each feeding can be determined by your puppies weight. Please read the instructions on the bag for daily amount based on your puppies weight. Divide that amount by three and that will be your puppies portion at each meal. As your puppy grows you can increase the amount based on weight and divide his/her portions into two feeding. Typically when your puppy comes home to you they will be on an 8am, 12pm and 5pm feeding schedule so that puppy has plenty of time to eliminate before bed.
