Sunday, October 31, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
As Keeper of the Puppies
I have to say this is the best litter ever! Today must be about 65, clear and warm for an October. Puppies are perfectly using the potty park, everypoo is now on one of the grasses. The resevoir has to be emptied three times a day to rid of the piddles, wow, this is amazingly more effecient and less expensive than having a stack of newspapers and blue plastic pads on hand.
Puppies are eating softened kibble with Stage 2 puppy formula, much better on the runny poo
they can go outside throught the doggy door
Courtney was the first to come back through the doggy door to come inside,
(I taped up the door so they all can come in when they want)
They are poo'ing outside in the side yard were they are contained by 6' x (?) 40' area
As keeper of the puppies, the potty park is marvelous! I can't believe I had litters without this awesome convenience as a breeder.
Puppies have learned to not poo or pee on their beloved pink pillow, the stuffed bear or the large mini-mouse, they don't even wee on their blue non-skid pad that's over blankets and pillows to make it soft and comfy.
these are awesome puppies!
and, I will never be without a potty park again. A word of advise, the large for small klein puppies, is a little too tall, they have to jump up or down from the potty park and will opt to use the grass laying on the floor instead. Now that they are all almost 6 wks, jumping up and down from the potty park is fun thing to do and catching 99% of the wee. They are well behaved and clean puppies, you will see that will be a big deal as they grow up and keep themselves clean.
Puppies are eating softened kibble with Stage 2 puppy formula, much better on the runny poo
they can go outside throught the doggy door
Courtney was the first to come back through the doggy door to come inside,
(I taped up the door so they all can come in when they want)
They are poo'ing outside in the side yard were they are contained by 6' x (?) 40' area
As keeper of the puppies, the potty park is marvelous! I can't believe I had litters without this awesome convenience as a breeder.
Puppies have learned to not poo or pee on their beloved pink pillow, the stuffed bear or the large mini-mouse, they don't even wee on their blue non-skid pad that's over blankets and pillows to make it soft and comfy.
these are awesome puppies!
and, I will never be without a potty park again. A word of advise, the large for small klein puppies, is a little too tall, they have to jump up or down from the potty park and will opt to use the grass laying on the floor instead. Now that they are all almost 6 wks, jumping up and down from the potty park is fun thing to do and catching 99% of the wee. They are well behaved and clean puppies, you will see that will be a big deal as they grow up and keep themselves clean.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
What size will my puppy be?
this litter (Grace+Everad) at birth were:
10.8oz 11.1oz 11.2oz 12.2oz 12.6oz 13.7oz 15.7oz 15oz 13.5oz 13.4oz
at 5 wks old puppies are:
2#10oz 2#15 3.7oz 2#8oz 2#13oz 3#12oz 3#11oz 3#12oz 3#4oz 3#11oz
Grace's first litter (Drake+Grace) were eating kibble by 5 wks old, this litter prefers it softened.
Her first litter's sire was a 21" small standard poodle.
at birth they were:
12.8oz 14.5oz 1#1oz 15.6oz 1# .05oz
at five weeks, they were
4.5# 4.5# 5.5# 5# 5#
at 7 wks:
8# 8# 7.5# 8# 9.5#
It occurred to me last night that the size from the small standard/standard litter and this litter of kleins/small standards is markably different. I guess I was hoping for the size in this litter but wasn't as convinced until now that we acheived it. We usually have 5# puppies at this age. The combination of G+E has really made some intelligent, smart puppies. Jim got home yesterday he says "I hope these owners can keep them contained (paraphrasing) these guys are just looking to get into things!"
This morning I found Courtney climbing up the exercise pen where one rung was loose, pushing her face through the bars to get out. I stepped into the exercsie pen, and there she was --stuck-- little face and two front feet just like the pictures below. She stopped and waited, no problem she knew I'd come and get her.
Carly got out this morning too (before I found the weak link of the exercsie pen), she was just walking down the hallway toward the front room, wiggling and saying hi to the other poodles, tootsie doodling down the way, no problem, just happy to be walking around like the other poodles.
Julie said that Carly has a good looking little body... how about that?!
Cova is famous of getting out and away from the litter and then realize how far away she is. She's probably the most adventurous and independent, but ya know, she's still a poodle and she will chirp-chirp-chirp, where did everybody go? I'm all alone and this world is big.
Jim enjoys Claudia, Carly and Conner sitting on his lap watching TV at night, he pets them and they just relax. Cova and Cara like to sit inbetween the pillows of the couch and Jim, so Jim has started to have one puppy on his chest with either Cova or Cara tucked in between the couch and Jim. Courtney, Claire and Collette are walking all over his head when he's holding one of them, he's laughing .. look at this puppy as they crawl around his head.
Cory's has his head up listening and looking at the front room with sounds and the other dogs. He's a boy, he's figuring out his place in the pack.
Colby when you pet him, he melts into your chest and will stay there when your hand isn't petting him. He likes to be very close to his people.
Carly and Cory don't whin to get attention but they look straight up at us with eye contact, "Pick Me Up"
The leading joke around here is Everad (from his personality testing at 49 days old) is socially dominant, meaning, he absolutely will get a hug from anyone that comes to the house, AND he will give a thousand kisses in 30 seconds with 2 second intervals. Try to put Everad where he can't see company? oh my, there's whinning and whimpering ... socially dominant. Only thing that hushes him is persistence to make him mind (and he does, he's almost two and a wonderful boy) or a juicy new bone to keep away from the others.
Colby? if he doesn't think he's had enough huggin' there will be some whinning! not a threat, just a fact ... socially dominant. He's calmer than Everad,
Cory? he's got the longer legs and busy-ness as Everad. He will probably be 18-20" he's a joy, has a more refined face than Everad and Colby, he will probably look like his uncle Zachary (see picture pedigree below).
Conner has a tail that will wiggle off his body. He's large like Grace, sweet and kind and loves people like his dad. Probably not socially dominant, just wants to be with you to get and give hugs.
I didn't list everybody, but there's more personality notes in earlier posts,
ok, I can't resist talking about these great little puppies.
Claire holds your eye contact, she's very affectionate in a sweet manner.
Claudia is calm and lean, she has Grace's personality, she's not saying yet, but she will, she will know what she wants and will let you know like her momma.
Carly is busy but not like Everad but more busy than Grace, she has things to search out.
Collette is also into everything, searching to get to her people. When you pick her up, she's all kisses and wiggles. She's the snuggle bug.
Cova instead of whins, she play barks, no whinning for this girl, she knows what she wants and she's verbal about it.
Courtney is so much like Collette, she has petite bones and small, perfectly proportioned, Julie says she's the gal to breed out of the litter, she wiggles and kisses too. She's so pleased to be with the humans.
Cara is the small quiet one - most of the time. She has the frog belly, that will thin out once she's away from the litter and not challenged to be sure she gets enough to eat. She's adventurous and refined, but she's a winner no mistake on that. There's a calm determination with this little girl. She's the purple collared girl just in case we get mixed up with Carly.
Carly and Cara's persaonalities are simillar, Cara is much smaller than Carly but they both have a quiet deterination. Cara and Carly have Grace's beautiful chest but on a smaller scale.
enjoy all of the talk about the puppies. New owners, congratulations on your almost home puppies. These are beautiful puppies all over them. Those who are waiting for the personality testing to pick out their puppy, luck to you, I know you are eager to know who's yours, I will send the info after the testing or early Saturday morning. I'm sure we can get it all figured out so no one has to wait any longer than Saturday afternoon.
Available puppies?
Carly is available, one of the unchosen "klein" females and one of the boys are available.
One of the two mid-sized boys are available (Cory or Colby), won't know which one until after the personality and grading on October 29th. Same with the "klein" girl (either Cova, Cara, Claire, Collette or Courtney).
Looking forward to the personality testing and conformation grading. Will tell us all what these puppies are like by new eyes.
10.8oz 11.1oz 11.2oz 12.2oz 12.6oz 13.7oz 15.7oz 15oz 13.5oz 13.4oz
at 5 wks old puppies are:
2#10oz 2#15 3.7oz 2#8oz 2#13oz 3#12oz 3#11oz 3#12oz 3#4oz 3#11oz
Grace's first litter (Drake+Grace) were eating kibble by 5 wks old, this litter prefers it softened.
Her first litter's sire was a 21" small standard poodle.
at birth they were:
12.8oz 14.5oz 1#1oz 15.6oz 1# .05oz
at five weeks, they were
4.5# 4.5# 5.5# 5# 5#
at 7 wks:
8# 8# 7.5# 8# 9.5#
It occurred to me last night that the size from the small standard/standard litter and this litter of kleins/small standards is markably different. I guess I was hoping for the size in this litter but wasn't as convinced until now that we acheived it. We usually have 5# puppies at this age. The combination of G+E has really made some intelligent, smart puppies. Jim got home yesterday he says "I hope these owners can keep them contained (paraphrasing) these guys are just looking to get into things!"
This morning I found Courtney climbing up the exercise pen where one rung was loose, pushing her face through the bars to get out. I stepped into the exercsie pen, and there she was --stuck-- little face and two front feet just like the pictures below. She stopped and waited, no problem she knew I'd come and get her.
Carly got out this morning too (before I found the weak link of the exercsie pen), she was just walking down the hallway toward the front room, wiggling and saying hi to the other poodles, tootsie doodling down the way, no problem, just happy to be walking around like the other poodles.
Julie said that Carly has a good looking little body... how about that?!
Cova is famous of getting out and away from the litter and then realize how far away she is. She's probably the most adventurous and independent, but ya know, she's still a poodle and she will chirp-chirp-chirp, where did everybody go? I'm all alone and this world is big.
Jim enjoys Claudia, Carly and Conner sitting on his lap watching TV at night, he pets them and they just relax. Cova and Cara like to sit inbetween the pillows of the couch and Jim, so Jim has started to have one puppy on his chest with either Cova or Cara tucked in between the couch and Jim. Courtney, Claire and Collette are walking all over his head when he's holding one of them, he's laughing .. look at this puppy as they crawl around his head.
Cory's has his head up listening and looking at the front room with sounds and the other dogs. He's a boy, he's figuring out his place in the pack.
Colby when you pet him, he melts into your chest and will stay there when your hand isn't petting him. He likes to be very close to his people.
Carly and Cory don't whin to get attention but they look straight up at us with eye contact, "Pick Me Up"
The leading joke around here is Everad (from his personality testing at 49 days old) is socially dominant, meaning, he absolutely will get a hug from anyone that comes to the house, AND he will give a thousand kisses in 30 seconds with 2 second intervals. Try to put Everad where he can't see company? oh my, there's whinning and whimpering ... socially dominant. Only thing that hushes him is persistence to make him mind (and he does, he's almost two and a wonderful boy) or a juicy new bone to keep away from the others.
Colby? if he doesn't think he's had enough huggin' there will be some whinning! not a threat, just a fact ... socially dominant. He's calmer than Everad,
Cory? he's got the longer legs and busy-ness as Everad. He will probably be 18-20" he's a joy, has a more refined face than Everad and Colby, he will probably look like his uncle Zachary (see picture pedigree below).
Conner has a tail that will wiggle off his body. He's large like Grace, sweet and kind and loves people like his dad. Probably not socially dominant, just wants to be with you to get and give hugs.
I didn't list everybody, but there's more personality notes in earlier posts,
ok, I can't resist talking about these great little puppies.
Claire holds your eye contact, she's very affectionate in a sweet manner.
Claudia is calm and lean, she has Grace's personality, she's not saying yet, but she will, she will know what she wants and will let you know like her momma.
Carly is busy but not like Everad but more busy than Grace, she has things to search out.
Collette is also into everything, searching to get to her people. When you pick her up, she's all kisses and wiggles. She's the snuggle bug.
Cova instead of whins, she play barks, no whinning for this girl, she knows what she wants and she's verbal about it.
Courtney is so much like Collette, she has petite bones and small, perfectly proportioned, Julie says she's the gal to breed out of the litter, she wiggles and kisses too. She's so pleased to be with the humans.
Cara is the small quiet one - most of the time. She has the frog belly, that will thin out once she's away from the litter and not challenged to be sure she gets enough to eat. She's adventurous and refined, but she's a winner no mistake on that. There's a calm determination with this little girl. She's the purple collared girl just in case we get mixed up with Carly.
Carly and Cara's persaonalities are simillar, Cara is much smaller than Carly but they both have a quiet deterination. Cara and Carly have Grace's beautiful chest but on a smaller scale.
enjoy all of the talk about the puppies. New owners, congratulations on your almost home puppies. These are beautiful puppies all over them. Those who are waiting for the personality testing to pick out their puppy, luck to you, I know you are eager to know who's yours, I will send the info after the testing or early Saturday morning. I'm sure we can get it all figured out so no one has to wait any longer than Saturday afternoon.
Available puppies?
Carly is available, one of the unchosen "klein" females and one of the boys are available.
One of the two mid-sized boys are available (Cory or Colby), won't know which one until after the personality and grading on October 29th. Same with the "klein" girl (either Cova, Cara, Claire, Collette or Courtney).
Looking forward to the personality testing and conformation grading. Will tell us all what these puppies are like by new eyes.
Monday, October 18, 2010
continue on with the pictures, it will be backwards, I had to save the pictures and go to the next post to get these all on here,
enjoy!
More Pictures, Oct 17th
Cory, I don't know about this bath thing ... Cory's first bath
Pictures, continued, continued, Oct 17
Pictures continued from October 17th
Pictures
Five week Update
5 wks and 3 days old, it's starting to be apparent that these darling little puppies that fill our hearts (and fill every inch of sound in the house) are quickly coming into their own (personalities, determination, attention getting) and getting very obvious they are house guests now getting ready to grow up and leave the nest.
Here's weight for the puppies, about 5 wks old they start staying their size of the kleinpudels, some still look like little frogs (namely Cova), some (like Claudia) are trim and like it that way. Cory is growing tall and Colby is slowing down in weight. Claudia is surprisingly looking small but still weighs the most. Courtney looks like a little doll perfectly square, also stays on the trim side. Claire always has eye contact. Cara is scooting around, Jim calls her the instigator. Carly is the quiet one, she's easy to misplace, she doesn't demand attention. Claudia and Conner are the most cuddly and will sit on your lap without squiggling like the others, oh my gosh, for maybe over a minute.
The best part for me? they all have happy faces and wiggly tails, all of them have great personalities, we are starting to become aware how little time we have with our sweet little house guests and how much they have stolen our hearts.
2#8 Claire
2#10 Courtney
2#13 Collette
2#15 Cova
3#4 Colby
3#7 Cara
3#11 Carly
3#11 Cory
3#12 Claudia
3#12 Conner
funny story. These puppies have been a challenge to keep enclosed today. They were able to play in the hallway this weekend with visitors and got use to having lots of attention. This morning these guys are chirping, can't seem to find what they need. I finally opened the back porch area and the bathroom so they could explore, I'm like, whew, quiet! a couple of minutes later lots of chirping (will I ever get pictures on the blog?), I go around the corner to the puppy room and there's a couple of puppies that have escaped the exercise pen. I hug them and kiss them and bend over to put the first puppy back and my eye quickly counts five puppies! oh my gosh! where's my puppies I ask Tigre'. I quickly look everywhere, no puppies to be found, my heart steps up a beat. I think, ah-ha the doggy door! sure enough four more puppies playing outside the doggy door. I count again 1-2...9, 9! where's (with a quick look) Collette, oh my gosh where is Collette? I open the side door with the doggy door, walk down the side of the house, go around the corner, and yeah, she's playing with Tigre'. [Tigre' is everywhere with these puppies, she loves the puppies, Everad will come get us when someone is out of the exercise pen, but this time he wash't around). She sees me and her tail about wiggles off of her body, [like she says] "oh I'm so glad to see you, I'm playing with Tigre' outside", I pick her up and she bathes me with kisses all the way back inside back into the safe zone. I call it the safe zone due to they are contained and won't get hurt or fall off of something or get run over by the big poodles playing, etc. But no she's just delighted with herself like jiggly jelly
Earlier Claire was the escapee but with Cory and Carly. They ease out like momma gets into the exercise pen, squishing their bodies in between the pen and the wall, pushing, pushing until they get through. My gosh these guys are quick learners.
This morning about 6am I'm cleaning up after their nighttime poo (on the potty park mostly but still has to be cleaned up), I leave them on the other side of the pen so I can roll up the paper and clean down to the floor. Oh here comes Cova, chirp-chirp-chirp ... but I want you she seems to say. Right behind her now on both sides of the pen here comes one puppy after another. Soon, they are all jumping up and down on my pants (important point here, where pants with small puppies) soon there are a couple outside of the pen realizing they aren't with the others and chirp-chirp-chirp, puppies have to come into the pen.
Like I always say, poodles love to play and they love to be with their people. This litter are social little cridders, maybe Everad's influence in the gene pool? These little puppies are a crack up, they want to be with their people.
Here's weight for the puppies, about 5 wks old they start staying their size of the kleinpudels, some still look like little frogs (namely Cova), some (like Claudia) are trim and like it that way. Cory is growing tall and Colby is slowing down in weight. Claudia is surprisingly looking small but still weighs the most. Courtney looks like a little doll perfectly square, also stays on the trim side. Claire always has eye contact. Cara is scooting around, Jim calls her the instigator. Carly is the quiet one, she's easy to misplace, she doesn't demand attention. Claudia and Conner are the most cuddly and will sit on your lap without squiggling like the others, oh my gosh, for maybe over a minute.
The best part for me? they all have happy faces and wiggly tails, all of them have great personalities, we are starting to become aware how little time we have with our sweet little house guests and how much they have stolen our hearts.
2#8 Claire
2#10 Courtney
2#13 Collette
2#15 Cova
3#4 Colby
3#7 Cara
3#11 Carly
3#11 Cory
3#12 Claudia
3#12 Conner
funny story. These puppies have been a challenge to keep enclosed today. They were able to play in the hallway this weekend with visitors and got use to having lots of attention. This morning these guys are chirping, can't seem to find what they need. I finally opened the back porch area and the bathroom so they could explore, I'm like, whew, quiet! a couple of minutes later lots of chirping (will I ever get pictures on the blog?), I go around the corner to the puppy room and there's a couple of puppies that have escaped the exercise pen. I hug them and kiss them and bend over to put the first puppy back and my eye quickly counts five puppies! oh my gosh! where's my puppies I ask Tigre'. I quickly look everywhere, no puppies to be found, my heart steps up a beat. I think, ah-ha the doggy door! sure enough four more puppies playing outside the doggy door. I count again 1-2...9, 9! where's (with a quick look) Collette, oh my gosh where is Collette? I open the side door with the doggy door, walk down the side of the house, go around the corner, and yeah, she's playing with Tigre'. [Tigre' is everywhere with these puppies, she loves the puppies, Everad will come get us when someone is out of the exercise pen, but this time he wash't around). She sees me and her tail about wiggles off of her body, [like she says] "oh I'm so glad to see you, I'm playing with Tigre' outside", I pick her up and she bathes me with kisses all the way back inside back into the safe zone. I call it the safe zone due to they are contained and won't get hurt or fall off of something or get run over by the big poodles playing, etc. But no she's just delighted with herself like jiggly jelly
Earlier Claire was the escapee but with Cory and Carly. They ease out like momma gets into the exercise pen, squishing their bodies in between the pen and the wall, pushing, pushing until they get through. My gosh these guys are quick learners.
This morning about 6am I'm cleaning up after their nighttime poo (on the potty park mostly but still has to be cleaned up), I leave them on the other side of the pen so I can roll up the paper and clean down to the floor. Oh here comes Cova, chirp-chirp-chirp ... but I want you she seems to say. Right behind her now on both sides of the pen here comes one puppy after another. Soon, they are all jumping up and down on my pants (important point here, where pants with small puppies) soon there are a couple outside of the pen realizing they aren't with the others and chirp-chirp-chirp, puppies have to come into the pen.
Like I always say, poodles love to play and they love to be with their people. This litter are social little cridders, maybe Everad's influence in the gene pool? These little puppies are a crack up, they want to be with their people.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Pictures
pictures! see if we can remember by the picture who they are, much easier in person,
group photo with Tigre' watching, (Tigre' loves the puppies).
Claudia started laying on the pink pillow about two weeks ago, now everybody has to have a spot, even if they are hanging off of it, they all sleep on it, play on it day and night.
Claire and her pink tummy rolling around playing,
Claudia, originally was tagged as white collar, in person we can tell her apart, on film? wow it's tough!
Colby, where am I?
Collette, how'd that get in there? she's about two wks old
Conner, he just wags his tail, really a sweet loving boy. Can you see his face already changing color? The hair around his nose is much lighter, he has a noticeable brown hue to his coat.
Green collar is Courtney, she has Everad's round eyes like Claire. Courtney is quite a character.
you can tell it's Courtney with the extra pink around her armpits, she's a little girl, (sorry about the eye goo, it doesn't seem so much in person)
pink bracelet is Cova, she's really a small girl too, see her tiny little face? She's refined and beautiful, sweet and mischeivous.
very candid picture of Everad, the tail got messed up with my grooming skills, thank goodness poodles hair grows and grows, always can recoup the style with a little time. Everad turns two November 24th
those eyes look just like her Dad! Just sizing it up, figuring it out, little Cova gets another picture here.
FOOD! they act like they've never eaten every time we feed them. They are starvin' marvin's
Hilde and Tigre' hey how'd they get in the puppy pictures! that Tigre' she's in as many of the pictures as she can get in.
hmm, we didn't plan very well with not being able to see her collar ..... black puppy October 12th
oh yeah, that's right, guess the puppy in the picture, (shh, looks like Cova huh?)
Baby boy Cory, kind of stacked, Isn't he pretty?
they've eaten, they're tired and on the favorite pink pillow, 10/12/10
Colby, (Lil' Ev) he likes to play with the toy,
probably Courtney she doesn't hold still for very long, wiggly, squiggly Courtney
best pictures of all, a happy tail. Did you see that all of the puppies' tails are held high? Both Grace and Everad have high flying tails of happy good attitude poodles.
the puppy room. There's a large window for natural light and fresh air today, amazing. From the ceiling is a heater lamp for puppies, each litter we add on some major furniture for the puppies, soon we will have the full layette
Claire
Claudia started laying on the pink pillow about two weeks ago, now everybody has to have a spot, even if they are hanging off of it, they all sleep on it, play on it day and night.
Collette, how'd that get in there? she's about two wks old 
oh yeah, that's right, guess the puppy in the picture, (shh, looks like Cova huh?)
they've eaten, they're tired and on the favorite pink pillow, 10/12/10
Claudia, she has a great personality, calm, alert and sweet, she's got her mother's eyes.
another Conner picture
yeah! there's that food again,
sleeping area getting completely cleaned, it's covered in nonskid puppy blanket and towels, oh my gosh, don't forget the pink pillow!
videos are too long, won't load on here, will record more tomorrow,
dang - too bad, today the puppies got to be outside for the first time in the sun, they were so cute in the laundry basket. Of course Conner and Cova and Collette were the first to get out of the basket, Cova got scared, it's a big scary place out in the world, Colby didn't like it either. Conner pranced around, he's bigger and more sure of himself in the litter, but ya know, he's still a baby.
enjoy,
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