Individual pictures of the puppies, 3wks 5days

Davina weighed in at 2#12oz (little sleepy this warm afternoon)

Dandy is personable, he looks up and runs to you

weighed in at 2#15oz

Demi has white on her chin, little bit on her chest, little bit of white on her back two feet on her toes, weighed in at 3#

Daniella has a lime collar, she weighed 2#11oz

Dmitry has the red collar, he's a cream puppy, weighed in at 3#5oz

D'Angelo is black with white on chin, chest and back toes, weighed in at 2#14oz

Drummer is a calm sweet little guy, 3#3oz



Duet, 2#15oz, she's the darkest cream, small and petite

Puppies eating

puppies 3 weeks 5 days

lime collared girl is Daniella, to her right is Dandy, his right Duet, then Drummer, to his right is black boy D'Angelo, then Dmitry, black girl is Demi, then Davina between Demi and Daniella.

... and they are cleaning each other's faces

Volhard Aptitude Testing

see  http://www.volhard.com/  for testing explanation


as a sample of the testing, following is Everad's and Tigre's testing, the other poodles did not have theirs done at 49 days old.  The previous puppies got their testing results when they go home to their new families.

Hilde's puppies will be tested on May 22nd, I will let the people with a reservation for this litter know time and location so they can attend.


Scoring system and Everad's results when he was 49 days old.
Social Attraction  Everad's Score 3
instructions:  place the puppy in testing area about four feet from the tester, tester kneels, leans backwards and coaxes the pup to them by clapping hands gently.
purpose:  degree of social attraction to people, confidence or dependence.  Pack drive.
score:  (1) came readily, tail up, jumped bit at hands, (2) came readily, tail up, pawed, licked at hands, (3) Came readily, tail up, (4) came readily tail down, (5) came hesitantly, tail down.

Following  Everad's Score 3
instructions:  the tester stands up and slowly walks away encouraging the puppy to follow.  Make sure puppy sees you walk away.  Coax puppy to follow by talking to it and attracting its attention
purpose:  Willingness to follow a person.  Pack Drive
(1) followed readily, tail up, got underfoot, bit at feet, (2) follwed readily, tail up, and got underfoot, (3) followed readility, tail up, (4) followed hesitantly, tail down, (5) followed hesitantly, tail down, (6) did not follow or went away.

Restraint Everad's Score 3
instructions:  tester crouches down and gently rolls the puppy onto its back and holds down with light pressure with one hand for 30 seconds.
purpose:  Degree of dominance or submissive tendency and ease of handling in difficult situations. 
Fight or Flight Drive
(1) struggled fiercely, flailed, bit, (2) struggled fiercely, flailed, (3) settled, struggled and finally settled with some eye contact, (4) struggled then settled, (5) no struggle, no eye contact, (6) no struggle, straining to avoid eye contact.

Social Dominance  Everad's Score 3-2
instructions:  puppy sits or stands on crouching tester's left side as tester gently strokes puppy from head to back, continue stroking until a recognizable behavior is established.
purpose:  Degree of acceptance of social dominance by a person.  Pack Drive.
(1) jumped, pawed, bit growled, (2) jumped, pawed, (3) cuddled up to tester and tried to lick face, (4) squirmed, licked at hands, (5) rolled over, licked at hands, (6) went away and stayed away.

Elevation Dominance  Everad's Score 4
instructions:  the tester cradles the pup under its chest with both hands fingers interlaced, palms up and gently lifts puppy two feet off of the ground, holding it there for 30 seconds.
purpose:  Degree of accepting dominance while in position of no control.  Fight or

Flight Drive

(1) struggled fiercely, tried to bite, (2) struggled fiercely, (3) struggled, settled, struggled and settled, (4) no struggle, relaxed, (5) no struggle, body stiff, (6) no struggle, froze.

Retreiving Everad's Score 4
instructions:  tester crouches besieds the pup and attracts its attention with a crumpled up piece of paper.  Then the pup shows some interest, the tester toesses the paper (no more than four feet) in front of the puppy, encouraging it to retreive the paper.
purpose:  Degree of willingness to do something for you.  Together with social attraction and following, a key indicator for ease or difficulty in training.  Prey Drive
(1) chased object, picked it up and ran away, (2) chased object, stood over it, did not return, (3) chased object, picked it up and returned with it to tester, (4) Chased object and returned w/o the object to tester, (5) started to chase object, lost interest, (6) did not chase object.

Touch Sensitivity  Everad's Score 1
instructions:  tester locates the webbing of one of the puppy's front paws and presses lightly between his index finger and thumb.  Tester gradulally increases pressure while counting to 10 and stops the pressure when the puppy pulls away or shows discomfort.  (do not pierce with fingernail).
purpose:  Degree of sensitivity to touch and a key indicator to the type of training equipment required.
before response:  (1) 8-10 counts, (2) 6-7 counts, (3) 5-6 counts, (4) 2-4 counts, (5) 2-3 counts

Sound Sensitivity  Everad's Score 4-3
instructions:  the puppy is placed in the center of the testing area and an assistant stationed at the perimeter makes a sharp noise, such as banging a metal spoon on the bottom of a metal pan (loudly).
purpose:  Degree of sensitivity to sound (also a rudimentary tet for deafness).  Prey Drive.
(1)  listened, located sound, walked toward it, barking, (2) listened, located, barked, (3) listened, lcoated, showed curiosity and walked toward sound, (4) listened, located the sound, (5) cringed, backed off and hid, (6) ignored sound, showed no curiosity.

Sight Senstiviity  Everad's Score 3
instructions:  the puppy is placed in the center of the testing area.  The tester ties a string around a bath towel and jerks it across the floor two feet away from puppy.
purpose:  Degree of response to a moving object, such as chasing bicycles, children or squirrels.  Prey Drive
(1) looked, attacked and bit, (2) looked, barked with tail up, (3) looked curiously, attempted to investigate, (4) looked, barked, tail-tucked, (5) ran away, hid.

Stability  Everad's Score 1
instructions.  an umbrella is opened about five feet from the puppy and gently placed on the ground.
purpose  Degree of startle response to a strange object, Fight and Flight Drive
(1) looked and ran to the umbrella, mouthting or biting it, (2) looked and walked to the umbrella, smelling it cautiously, (3) looked and went to investigate, (4) Sat and looked, but did not move toward the umbrella, (5) ran way from the umbrella, (6) showed no interest.

Structure (conformation)  Everad's Score Good +
instructions:  the puppy is gently set and held in a natural stance and evaluated for structure in the following categories:
*  straight front
*  straight rear
*  shoulder lay back
*  front angulation
*  croup angulation
*  rear angulation
purpose:  Degree of structural soundness.  Good structure is necessary.
(1) good, the puppy is correct in structure, (2) the puppy has a slight fault or deviation, (3) the puppy has an extreme fault or deviation.
(first published in the AKC Gazette, March 1979, an article by Melissa Bartlett)

comparitively for testing results, "Tigre's" testing.
Social Attraction:  Score 4
Following, Score 3
Restraint, Score 5
Social Dominance, 6
Retreiving, 5
Touch Sensitivity, 3
Sound Sensitivity, 4
Sight Sensitivity, 2

two 3's, two 5's, a 2, 4 and 6.
the test says she will be outgoing, friendly and will adjust well in situations, flexible temperament, the 5s say she is submissive and bonds closely to owners but is aloof from the score of 6 with one 2 as being dominant and self-assured.  (she does not challenge dominance but she's not a push over either.  She readily submits to Grace with Grace being the eldest female, but Tigre' doesn't leave it alone either, she will submit to Grace but will wait and come back to being friendly, she does not cower from Grace or anyone, she's a peacemaker, a protector and loves to be hunged and play catch, she's a perfect combination for a standard poodle with a great personality)

She is outgoing, friendly, wagging tail that clears tables, she is everybody's best friend.  She does dominant with a big bark with someone coming towards the yard or house, we are her priority, she's a total sweetheart.  When there's discord in the house amongst the canine (over a bone, otherwise never), she is the peacemaker.  She's a perfect girl around the house, stays out of the crate at night without any trouble, never distructive.  Tigre's love is to play catch, retrieve, catch, retrieve ... for as long as you will play, it's her passion, her most favorite things are laying around rassling with Joaquin on the floor, plays with Hilde endlessly and rough housing, plays with and submits to Everad and Grace.  She is a wonderful balance of a sweet and loving poodle.

Puppy Development

Puppy development is right on schedule, they are eating a puppy gruel in the mornings, their eye teeth are in and momma is not interested in nursing them for very long at a time.  Their personalities are distinctive enough to know which puppy they are, but there's always the growth splurt that can throw off even the me.

Week Three (Days 15-21)

DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUPPIES

• Teeth begin to erupt
• Puppies stand up and start walking
• Begin to lap liquids
• Defecate/urinate without stimulation
• Start becoming aware of their environment
• Start playing with littermates, rolling around chewing on each other
• Develop sense of smell, they can locate momma by smell
• Puppies will start to discriminate as to where to relieve themselves

CARE OF THE PUPPIES

• Start adding stimuli (toys) to puppies' life
• Start giving specific stresses when handling (i.e.. pinch an ear or toe gently).
• Start giving puppy mush daily, then increase as weaning from dam
• Weigh puppies 2-3 week
• Give puppies a dirty shirt of yours to play with
• Start weekly grooming sessions (brush, trim nails, look at teeth, etc.)

TO DO LIST

• Purchase milk replacer to feed puppies

Three Weeks, Two Days Pics

we are geting their "big" area ready for them to start learning the potty park and room to play as they grow, flooring goes in this week, everybody got to stand on the potty park today, lots of new things for the puppies

FOOD

three weeks today, gave them a taste of food puppy gruel -- they were naturals!

picture is blurry, momma is cleaning up the puppies

augh... back to the heat lamp and their whelping box

PICTURES 2 wks 4 days

"Dandy" he's a little more active than the other boys, weighed 2#1oz today 

"Dmitry" he's the most calm and playful boy, weighed 2#7oz today, he might be 20" tall and 30# but I doubt he'll be that big,

"Drummer" 2nd born, weighed 2#4oz today, he's thoughtful and sweet, reminds me very much like his daddy Joaquin

"D'Angelo" named after a child champion ballroom dancer, D'Angelo is thoughtful and sensitive, and adventurous, has his daddy's personality I think, weighed 1#15oz today

"Demi" she's calm and curious about the camera, a real sweetheart, she weighed 2#2oz today
her favorite sleeping position is on her back with her belly getting aired out

"Davina" she's a moving and a grooving kind of a girl, weighed 1#13oz today, 
I'm guessing she will be an active puppy (ha!)

"Duet" like her sister Davina, these two are active little girls!  
only good picture I got of Duet was of her sleeping





"Daniella" she's calm and cuddly, weighed 1#15oz today, she's a nice puppy
my computer is getting finicky getting the pictures on here, she had better pics but computer won't cooperate

Extra pictures of picture taking, weighing and neurally stimulated today




whew, that was a lot of work, Demitry

group picture with Demi interested in the camera and what's going on

cute picture of Demi with her brother D'Angelo crawling by

the little face next to the blue collar boy (Dandy) that's Davina, had to put a collar on Daniella (lime) to tell them apart, they almost weigh the same, Davina has a beautiful little face

puppies will be three weeks old on Sunday, April 30th

Two weeks old today

the only sign Tigre' is giving is she's uncomfortable and will play with the puppies,

Puppies are joining us in the family room to experience regular sounds of the household
Davina's eyes are completely open, Dmitry is calm and will roll over and chew on his siblings, all of the puppies are doing great.  I was carrying the puppies back to the sanctuary, Hilde barked and I jumped, I said, "Hilde be quiet" .. D'Angelo says .... grrrrupf.  As soon as the puppies heard D'Angelo couple others did the same grrruff!   just too cute!

see the white on these black puppies?  I'm not sure they will be blues 

I think they will be black with white on their feet, chest and chin ... they are darling!

More Pictures

Puppies will be two weeks tomorrow

with Tigre' ready to bring us her puppies, it's clean up time for the "D" litter

Puppies are outside in the shade with their first fresh air and bright sunny day

while I clean from top to bottom, under and around the whelping area

their little noses going up the side of the puppy pool

side view of dark puppy and siblings

they are now snug as a bug in their clean peaceful area

the whelping lamp is off, the window open for natural fresh air and sunlight

and might I add, they are now sleeping soundly, wow that was a lot of work for these puppies!

Puppy Pictures

One Week, Six Days 

"Daniella" another puppy jumping the walls and looking for momma,

see her eyes, they are pretty much open, all of the puppies can hear good too 

Nursing puppies, Momma will not do this, she got up I had to leave the room so she would go back and feed them.  No pictures while they're eating!  This is a private time for momma and puppies.

they are up and wobbling around, goin faster than momma can keep up, so I'm helping cleaning the puppy area several times a day.   They are so cute!

Poppa Joaquin and his new Do

This is the sire of Hilde's litter whelped 4/3/11, Joaquin

 isn't he handsome?

for conversation, this is also our moyen/klein male that keeps Joaquin in line and busy, Everad

we love our boys and are very proud of them