Meet Maddie!
Adopted
F1b medium english
Teddybear goldendoodle puppy
Female
Born 4/09/24
Ready To Go Home Now
Expected Weight 35 - 45 lbs
Meet The Mom | Meet The Dad
Training Included
$4000
Maddie has been adopted by the Lennartson family!
Maddie is a happy and gentle yet playful girl that loves to interact and stay close by our side. This pretty baby loves to snuggle and carry things around making her a perfect playmate for children or for someone wanting a comfort companion. Maddie is a lovely sweet tempered puppy that is excelling with her training, check out her cute obedience video below. She knows:
Crating Quietly For 6 - 7 hours
Climbing Steps
Walking On Leash Willingly
Come When Called
Beginning Sit
Good Impulse Control Against Jumping
Plays Nicely With Littermates
De-Sensitized To Loud Noises
Litter Box And Dog Door Trained
Daily Jeep Rides
Six Weeks Old
This has been an important week as my siblings and I had our temperament test taken and we all showed excellent response and sweet natures! On the learning front, we started using the doggie door for playtime outside and our daily crate training has lengthened with us now being in our own crates with a toy to play with! Beginning leash work has started outside and Brisa and Marisa say that we are all responding well!
Five Weeks Old
We are five weeks old and our little personalities are starting to develop! Our Teddybear coats are becoming full and we look pretty cute in the new video that Janet took of all of us.
This past week we started beginner crate conditioning with a crate buddy so that we can slowly acclimate to sleeping in our crate. Brisa and Marisa have also been holding us more, offering gentle cuddling, holding while walking around and inspecting my body/mouth examination, all preparation for handling without fear when we go to our new homes. Our trainers have also started conditioned emotional response exercises such as pulling our ears, hugging around our necks, ruffling our fur, handling and squeezing our paws and clipping our nails while eating Greek yogurt during each manipulation. We are learning to show a positive response, instead of a negative one so that we can handle the bumps and tugs that we might encounter with young children or special needs children/adults with my our new families. Brisa thinks we are doing great in preparation for our upcoming temperament test and that our new families will love our sweet and playful natures.
Our trainers have also started conditioning us to the different moving objects that we will encounter when we go to our new homes. Getting used to shopping carts, wheel chairs, walkers, strollers, canes, etc. prepares us for any direction our training will take once we join our new famlies. We have also progressed from sitting in a running vehicle to short car rides every day and daily crate training has lengthened!
Puppy choice appointments have all been scheduled, the Okefeild team will reconfirm appointments and send last minute details and instructions in preparation for puppy choice day. Individual pictures and temperament test results will be added to our pages by Wednesday evening, 5/22/24, so that families can look over all of the information before final choices are made on Thursday!
We look forward to meeting everyone!
Three Weeks Old
This has been a big week! Our eyes are now fully open and we are beginning to respond to Brisa and Marisa when they take us through our daily training. A litter box has been added to our nursery room and we are already searching it out to go potty in! We also finished up our Neurological Stimulation exercises and Brisa and Marisa have started the next phase of our training and conditioning. Holding, cuddling and walking around during this development stage helps us to learn to be secure when being carried and handled.
At 21 days our ears began to open and we can now hear. We don’t know much about science but research says that during the first week of hearing puppies have very little startle response to loud noises so Janet makes sure to take advantage of this time to begin conditioning us to accept these noises while we are eating. Doing something pleasant while we hear, startle and recover conditions us to ignore the scary noises that we will encounter in our future life. Daily sound conditioning will continue at each of our meals until we go home to our new family. We are getting used to hearing:
The sound of a running vacuum, force blow dryer and clippers
Slamming doors, gates and dropped objects
Honking horn and running car engine
CD containing noises such as thunder, wind storm, alarm clock, lawn mower, power saw, buzzers, bells, children playing, thumps, babies crying, bumps and much more
Enjoy this week’s update!
Mackenzie Yellow - Maddie Pink - McKenna Lavender
Merrilee Soft Green - Mia Orange - Mykayla Peach
Two Weeks Old
Over the past week, we have really gained a lot of healthy weight and are starting to crawl around. Brisa and Marisa are finishing up our Early Neurological Stimulation exercises and we are responding very well! Each day we accept the exercises a little bit better, giving us the perfect start towards developing a temperament that can go in whatever direction you need, whether it be for therapy, diabetic/seizure alert or as an excellent family companion. Click on the bold link to read over a more scientific description of the process and to watch a short video by author, trainer and AKC judge, Dr. Carmin Battaglia.
Our next litter update will be a video of us eating for the first time at three weeks of age. Enjoy our pictures and video showing us doing our Early Neurological Stimulation exercises, aren’t we adorable!
Mackenzie Yellow - Maddie Pink - McKenna Lavender
Merrilee Soft Green - Mia Orange - Mykayla Peach
One Week Old
We are having a great first week with our littermates and are at the milk bar quite a bit (Janet says that we are just the right weight for our size!) and we spend the rest of our time sleeping. Occasionally we crawl around to spend time under the heat lamp, we’re living the life! Brisa and Marisa are taking great care of all of us and next week Janet will show you what they have been teaching us. Until then, enjoy our new pictures!
Newborn
Molly gave birth to eight beautiful and healthy puppies, six females and two males! She had an easy delivery with Ron and Janet’s help and was given oxytocin to expel any retained afterbirth and penicillin to ward off infection. Mama is recovering nicely and so far everyone is doing great! Our next update will be added by Friday this week, enjoy the newborn pictures and videos!
Pregnancy Confirmed!
Great news, Molly and Murphey have been confirmed for pregnancy, the vet saw about eight puppies and said that everything looks great! We thought that you all might enjoy seeing the actual ultrasound so that you can watch the entire process from the very beginning.
Due around 4/14/24, we will announce the happy news of birth when the puppies are about a week old then will contact families to have each one decide whether they want to reserve a specific color/gender from Molly’s litter or to remain on the reserve list to consider the next litter. Enjoy the ultrasound video! - Janet