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ALL PUPPIES ARE SPOKEN FOR AT THIS TIME.
DOB: February 12, 2021
Sex: Males and females expected 🙂
Coat type: Anticipate curly and wavy
Colors: Expect black, black with white
Date Available for New Homes: Mid-April 2021 (after they are 8 weeks)
Health and Screenings: Before going to their new homes puppies will receive first round of vaccines, a veterinary health check, worming (if necessary), eye screening with veterinary ophthalmologist (if possible with Covid restrictions), temperament tested, microchipped, groomed and well socialized with young children, dogs, cats and people (and ready for you to keep up the great start).
eThank you for checking out the litter.
Kindle is a beautiful girl with a wonderful temperament. Kindle has beautiful angles and a wonderful front, a nice deep chest and gorgeous expression. She has a beautiful free moving gait and is true coming and going. She enjoys meeting new people, but even more, she loves doing anything or going anywhere with me. We joke that she’s my loyalist…always my shadow defying any gate meant to separate us. She’s an easy keeper and gets along with most everyone. She’s smart and eager to please.
Kindle finished her Championship from the bred-by-exhibitor class with two 5 point majors and a 3 point major. She went on to finish her Grand Championship entirely owner handled with multiple 5 point majors and an Owner Handler Working Group 2 at the highly competitive Steel Valley Cluster in Canfield, Ohio.
King is a Bronze Grand Champion and has a Canine Good Citizen. Beauty, brains and temperament!
He’s a gorgeous moderate dog with nice bone and substance and a wonderful easy going temperament. He boasts of many Best of Breeds and multiple Group placements. He enjoys hiking in the trails Washington State with his owner Janet and his dad Midas. He’s a gentleman in the family and loves the grandkids.
Thank you to Janet, King’s owner, who has been AMAZING to work with. Despite the challenges both Covid and shipping during the Christmas craze presented this litter was meant to be! We’re so looking forward to some amazing “kids!”
Inquiry about Kindle x King Litter
Hi Future Owner!
We’re excited to have you here. Owning a Portuguese Water Dog is a rewarding and magical experience. This high energy breed loves to be a part of everything you and your family does and hates to be left out (Want some PWD Pros and Cons? Click HERE!). This breed isn’t for everyone, so do your homework to make sure they are right for you. (Check out some of our FAQ’s on our puppies HERE!)
As a breeder, we know how important it is to make sure your puppy has the best start. We take this job very seriously. Each week we’ll update what’s going on with the puppies as well as include a few pictures. Enjoy!
Looking forward to meeting you,
Becky
UPDATES BELOW ARE FROM OUR 2018 LITTER
The puppies are growling, barking, hopping and have started to eat a gruel! Three times a day we blend puppy formula with dog food to create a gruel the puppies love. Right now, we feed them on large dinner plates since they are so low to the ground and easy to clean. The puppies hear the plates clattering and come running. They think the gruel is the next best thing to mom. Envy has started to distance herself from the puppies a bit as the weaning process has begun. She’s still in there cleaning and feeding them, just not as often as she previously was. We also had our first escape from the whelping box this week. Little Wavy Girl decided to take the plunge in the middle of the night. I heard a racket downstairs to find her running around barking to get back IN to the whelping area! Getting out was much easier than getting in.
This week the puppies experienced:
-The patio and the outdoors (no grass yet)”
-Lots of puppy toys! They got to play with a box, a Fitpaws bone (for balance), a skateboard (with big sister Kindle helping).
– They also played with falling leaves and some of the other dogs
– New things to hear: the blender, a blow dryer (big sister Kindle was getting ready for a show) and thunderstorm sounds at night.
-Lots of snuggles with the kids. The kids get to sit on the dog beds and snuggle puppies while we clean their area each day. The puppies LOVE the kids!
The puppies also got a new bigger area to play in and have started on potty training! Right now we’re using potty pads as they are easy to clean up. The puppies thus far have hit them about 80% of the time. Not too bad for little ones that JUST started walk two weeks ago!
Next week on to bigger and better things…maybe even grass!
Everyone’s eyes are open and they’re enjoying walking around looking at life. Many of them have started to come to the edge of the whelping box and peaking over the sides at what we’re doing. The week that they open their eyes is definitely a fun one as it means there’s so much more to life then just feeling and sniffing (which they definitely love doing!). This week the puppies got to see lots of flashing lights of the kid’s toys, have trains built around their area, experience a few different textures (carpet, wood, fleece, paper) and they get to listen to the vacuum cleaner, dog blow dryer, and LOTS of kid’s cartoons. They’ve also each received approximately 100 kisses on their heads each day. With 3 kids, they are definitely not lacking in the love and snuggles department.
The tough of the week…we lost the curly male we were supplementing. Breeding dogs is full of so much joy and so much heartache. The risk with supplementing is always that the puppy either still won’t gain the needed weight or there’s the ever looming possibility that the puppy will aspirate. Without intervention the other bossy puppies would continue to grow and push this one out for feedings. So we opted to supplement, but in the end, not every puppy is meant to be despite our best efforts and the best efforts of our veterinarians. We’ll be thinking of him now and always.
The puppies are MUCH more active. We are continuing with the neurological stimulation and they are getting more handling time. We’re starting to see little cracks in their eyes and ears which means soon they’ll be looking and listening to us!! Two of the puppies weren’t gaining as much as the rest so we have begun supplementing them with some formula to make sure they keep up with the big guys. They’ve also started their little walking like drunken sailors routines. Step, step, stumble, step, stumble, step.
The puppies were born Sunday, August 26th from 8 pm to 10 pm. They came fast and furious! Throughout the next couple of weeks we’ll be doing a lot of handling exercises with the puppies, neurological stimulation and letting them grow (you can read more about the benefits here: Early Neurological Stimulation
For week 1 we’ll be weighing them 3x daily to make sure everyone is gaining weight as they should, holding them daily in a variety of positions (side, back and while shifting weight from front to back), and trimming toenails. At this age, the eyes and ears are still closed and they rely 100% on mom to eat, drink and stay warm.
Also, after much consideration, we decided to NOT do dewclaws for this litter. For years we’ve had the front dewclaws removed, but there’s more and more research that suggests this might not be ideal for the dogs structurally later in life. Though removing the dewclaw does give the leg a clean appearance and eliminate the risk of it getting caught, keeping it allows for proper biomechanics for movement. The dewclaw serves as a point for attachment for 5 tendons and when the dewclaw is removed this leads to atrophy and potentially arthritis later down the road. So we elected to NOT do dewclaws. You can read more here: Do the Dew(claws)?
