PROGRAM OVERVIEW
OUR PARENT DOGS
All of our parent dogs are first and foremost, our loving pets. They have been chosen for their outstanding temperaments and excellent health. They have all been rigorously health tested and only get to become a parent if the pass. We start with DNA genetic health testing via: Embark, Canine Health Check and/or PawPrint Genetics. Once they have passed genetics, we then do orthopaedic testing through: OFA and/or PennHIP. We are constantly learning and pushing for breed betterment. We then get to wait until they are over the age of two for their first puppies.
OUR BERNEDOODLE PUPPIES
We start your pups off the right way.
We set the bar high and this is just one of the differences with Rocky View Bernedoodles. We start all our neonate puppies on Fresh Frozen Plasma Serum from LifeStream Animal Blood Bank to supplement the mom’s colostrum to boost their immune systems. From the time they are born until 48 hours old (the puppy’s gut closes after 48 hours and can no longer metabolize the serum). We syringe each puppy a dose based on their body weight every 2 hours. It’s worth it to us to give up sleep because Canine Cryobank found frozen plasma to be the only natural immune booster for newborn pups. Breeders have reported that pups fed plasma in the first 48 hours show consistent weight gain and are more vigorous than previous litters.
Because the newborn’s digestive system is not completely operational for the first hours after birth, the molecular immune boosting components of the frozen plasma pass unobstructed into the pups circulation. We love everyone one of our puppies and want them to have the very best start to their beautiful lives.
So what is ENS (Early Neurological Stimulation) and ESI (Early Scent Introduction)?. ESI is a training program for our puppies designed to enhance their ability to identify and react to specific scents (Day 3 thru Day 16 – neonatal period). Each day we introduce a strong scent to each puppy for a brief interval and record the puppies reaction. The reaction is considered to be positive when the puppy shows interest in the scent – moving toward it. A negative reaction is recorded when the puppy tries to get away from the scent – turn their head away.
Finally when a puppy is neither interested or disinterested in a scent – this is a neutral reaction.
Did you know puppies can’t see or hear when they are born? However before puppies are born they can detect scent while still in the womb. They depend on scent when they are born to find their mother’s milk until their eyes open at about 2 weeks. The benefit of ESI is to build nose awareness and confidence. This is useful for hunting, tracking, service / therapy dog – eg a diabetic alert dog. Dogs have 300,000,000 olfactory receptors and the part of their brain devoted to analysing smell is 40 times larger than humans!… read more
PUPPY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Drs. Scott and Fuller documented critical periods in the development of the canine in 1953. A critical period is a specific time in the maturation process when a small amount of experience will produce a great effect on later behavior. It’s also a period when learning is easier and knowledge gained is stored in the long term memory. The difference between the amount of effort needed to produce the same effect at different periods determines just how critical the period is. There is a window of opportunity in which certain experiences need to happen at a specific time, or the window will close and the potential benefits of those experiences will be lost… read more
BAD ASS BREEDER
Puppies are raised to believe in themselves and be the best they can be through guiding emotional responses, meeting their innate needs in order, building confidence through intentional and purposeful curriculum and handling that aligns to their sensitive developmental benchmarks and lastly evaluating each puppy prior to placement to ensure their voice is heard and they are honored and respected not only with their breeder but with their new human as well… read more
BAXTER AND BELLA
We are strong advocates of puppy/dog training. Not only do we encourage training your pup, we feel it’s essential. But you have to do the work and stay committed. Being a responsible dog owner ensures that you provide a plan to train your canine companion to be well mannered, calm and the best behaved dog that you could ever want. A trained dog is less stressful, not only in the beginning, but for life.
Rocky View Bernedoodles has partnered with Baxter & Bella. With our RVB25 promo code you will receive 25% off the cost of your lifetime membership. That means for $178 (USD), you can feel confident that you are giving your pup and your family the relationship you desire for a lifetime of fun, excitement and happiness.
