Sound Habituation Starts with Classical Music

For the next 14 days, we will do these five exercises 1 x a day with each exercise lasting only about 3-5 seconds: 1) Puppy held upright in secure hold 2) Puppy held upside down in secure hold 3) Puppy tickled between toes with Q-tip 4) Puppy laid on its back (Of course this is…

Yesterday’s round of bird exposure and first exposure to unfenced area outside of puppy pen. This time we put the kick cage with a live chucker out in our bigger, unfenced side yard and brought out two pups at a time. Our interest was to see their boldness/independence to explore as well as bird interest,…

2 1/2 weeks and our eyes are open! Photos are shot in low light due to eyes just opening and safer for the babes for now to not face the light or have a flash right now, but here’s a good look at what these beautiful 11 look like at 2.5 weeks.

We are half way to meeting the family who will love us for our forever! But in the meantime…there are new experiences every day and going outside was a definitely a new adventure!

In this session we took each of the pups out individually. We are looking for their desire to “look around” and how well they respond to the chukar wing on a string and toy on a string. If you dangle something on a string in front of a puppy, he/she will want to play with…