This is a topical day in the life for 10 almost 8 week old golden retriever puppies.
I raise my puppies using my own twist of the puppy culture methods.
Puppies start their day with a potty break followed by breakfast in the form of a manding/learn your name lesson. I like to wear different masks and hats to help desensitize puppies to what they may encounter in their new homes.
After breakfast puppies take a nap while I clean up their night area. After setting up their object of the day puppies have a good long play session. This session usually involves their object of the day, exposure to the sweeper, a different environment and often other playmates.
Tired from their play session puppies go in individual kennels for a nap.
On this particular day I used puppy quiet time to prepare my puppy go home bags and finish up some paperwork.
When puppies Wake from their nap they go outside for a potty break and then it's lunch time.
I usually use lunch as a training lesson, today's lesson was resource guarding prevention game.
After lunch puppies loaded up for a car ride. I do three car rides a week starting when puppies are two weeks old. This makes their car ride to their new home much less stressful for both the puppy and the new owner.
After their car ride puppies listen to their sound desensitizing CD. I like to play lots of different sounds including traffic, thunderstorms, fireworks and what's more. This hopes to sensitize puppies too noises that may be scary later on.
Throughout the day there are lots of clean up, laundry loads and puppy snuggles.

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