How we Raise our Puppies

A healthy puppy begins with healthy parents. It is important that our parent dogs are the best examples of what a Goldendoodle should be in order to breed the best puppies.

Once puppies are born into the world at HP Doodles we begin ENS (early neurological stimulation) and ESI (early scent introduction) at 3 days old. This is performed on days 3-16, including gentle handling and daily weights. ENS is known to improve cardiovascular performance, stronger heartbeats, stronger adrenal glands, more tolerance to stress, and greater resistance to disease. ESI improves nose awareness and confidence.

At 3 weeks old we move into a more advanced curriculum with our puppies. We begin a “10 step puppy massage” every day and increase pressure weekly. We use our 10 step handling exercises to ensure our puppies are exposed to various types of touch, handling and sensation.

At 3 weeks we also begin socializing our puppies to different sounds, sights, textures, things to climb on, run through and more. We believe in empowering over enabling our puppies. We set them up to conquer physical and mental challenges every day. By doing this we build our puppies nerve strength and confidence as well as problem solving skills. Our goal is provide our puppies with a stable and enriching environment for the first 8 weeks of their lives.

At 7 weeks of age we conduct a puppy aptitude test on each individual puppy. During the test we focus on 12 important puppy temperament traits to help make sure you get a puppy that fits you, your lifestyle and your needs as well as honoring who the puppy is.

Families on our wait list are added to a private puppy family group page on Facebook. Throughout the 8 weeks we update an album in the group with multiple pictures per week, weekly individual/litter pictures, and weekly live video updates where we show each puppy and answer any and all questions our families may have.