All puppies are settling in to thier new homes, and look very comfortable. Below are a few pictures sent of the first few days we will add and up date pictures as they arrive and grow. 

We are in the final week before the puppies start to go to their new homes, this week they have had their first vaccination so the puppies will leave us and go into there new environment with some immunity. All puppies are very forward and we are extremely pleased how the litter has turned out. We have really benefited by bringing Rudy into our breeding program as you can see he has given the puppies so much more structure in their head, chest and ears.  Amber is in fantastic shape after rearing and giving so much to her offspring, she has even managed to get two days off to go picking-up. It will be nice for us to see how they grow and develop within their first year.

This a hard time for us as a family to let this litter go as we all have put a lot of time and energy into them and have been watching  them grow from day one. We all have our individual favourites and will be doing our best to hide them away when the time comes for them to leave!  

Well, we’re on week seven with our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Puppies and as you can see they are growing pretty fast and exploring their environment with excitement!

Congratulations to our stud dog George who has sired another healthy litter of 7 chocolate Labradors.

Coco (Mum also a chocolate Labrador) is doing really well after a long labour, there were 2 girls and 5 boys.

The girls weighed an average of 12oz at birth and the boys 15oz. All puppies are a good dark chocolate at present.

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Breeze is now 10 weeks old and we have been socialising her within our family environment getting her use to family life and finding her place within the pecking order. Breeze is very bright and extremely laid back, she is excellent with the children who are very hands on.

At this early stage of training it should be done within play drive with no pressure. Everything should be easy for her to achieve and made enjoyable. We are talking to her all the time in play training giving her plenty of encouragement.

The main steps at this moment in time are her retrieving and recall, her recall at present is fantastic, as soon as you call her name she comes back to you, or when you are play retrieving she also comes straight back to you, but we are never to quick to take the ball or sock off of her, as we don’t want her to get into the habit of dropping the retrieve.

 We are also starting to lead train her, we put a collar on and attach a lead then let her run around the house. We will occasionally tread on the lead so she gets use to sudden pressure. We also let the children walk/pull her around to get her use to walking on the lead.

So many owners teach a dog to walk with a lead but not on a lead!

Toller Puppies at 5 weeks old!

Puppies have now reached four weeks of age and are very alert and responsive.

They have under gone their second course of worming and have also been micro-chipped which is a permanent form of identification for each puppy. This is painlessly inserted under the skin between the shoulder blades. The microchip contains a unique 10-digit identification number. Micro-chipping can reduce the premium of some dog insurances.

On a note of dog insurance we recommend the kennel clubs own insurance, when our puppies go to their new homes the puppies will come with 6 weeks free insurance from the kennel club which can be activated from day one.

As the puppies grow, their nutritional needs are changing. The puppies are no longer being fed weetabix and goats milk but are being fed Master Eclipse Puppy Food which is a complete and balanced diet along side mums milk and a fresh supply of water.

This morning at 06.00am we collected a puppy out of our yellow Labrador retriever stud dog, Moss who we had in exchange for a stud fee. We have christened her Breeze, she is a very outgoing yellow Labrador bitch.

 The breeders Neil & Alison Parkin have done a fantastic job of rearing her in the first 8 weeks of puppy-hood. Our plan with Breeze is to do a step by step guide of how we introduce one of our puppies to a working life as a gundog.

This will give all an opportunity to follow our step by step guide for their own use, but also for others to give us advice  if we were to come across any stumbling blocks along the way which they may have already encountered.  Watch this space!

A new video of the Toller Pups at three Weeks Old!