Turtle Gardens seems to have an early batch of spring pups. Odd since we are still snow covered – but melting.  There is quite a range of pups, all very adoptable.  Puppies are cute as all heck but do come with the responsibility of providing training to raise them to be good canine citizens.  While we start all our dogs on housebreaking and they do learn quite a bit from following the older dogs outside you can expect to put in the effort to continue the right behaviours and curb the incorrect ones.  You will need to walk them often and praise them like they invented a way to turn rock into gold. 

Adopters should also plan on taking a puppy training class or two.  This is great socialization for your  pup and can provide useful tips for a lifetime of ‘good dog’. Make sure you have a sense of humour with pups, they sometimes try really, really hard to please but get it all wrong and do the wrong thing when they meant to impress you with their cleverness.  These humourous antics can include bringing you your underwear when you have company (hey you might need em), tipping the water bowl (the cat dared me), or tearing up the newspaper (maybe he disagreed with the editorial).  Try to maintain a sense of humour while guiding puppy to the right ways of doing things, eventually he will be an adult dog and so much a part of your family that you couldn’t imagine life without him.

There are 3 sheltie/poodle mixes which are low to no shedding.  They came in semi-feral but have come around.  They are quick and easily scared so quiet calm homes are needed for them.  They will be about 20 lbs when filly grown and will require regular haircuts at the groomers.  They are not suitable for children, sorry.

 

There are 5 golden crosses.  Their mother Shimmer has gone to her new home.  She has a very stable temperament, classic Golden really.  Her pups are big gold balls of fluff right now.  They will be great family dogs are they share her great temperament.  Young goldens need a lot of exercise and are a little too smart so they need obedience classes.  If you are looking for a medium to largish dog which can be a part of a active family then consider these.  4 girls, one boy.

 

Emma is a small 20lb sheltie mix with a great temperament.  She has 6 little ones to find homes.  These are much more suitable for the average family than the poodle mixes by far.  Very young children should be supervised with young pups as they can sometimes try to pick them up the wrong way and hurt the puppy.  But they are cute!

 

Rocky is going to be a fairly big boy.  He’s 26 lbs at 4 months of age.  But he is a cute little fuzzbucket.  What a face.  He loves kids/dogs whatever.  Rocky is another all round good pup for an active family.

 

Linnet is a labX and is everything anyone could want in a Lab.  Happy, confident, gentle mouthed, tries to please, she is very good with her housebreaking.  She should attend a puppy training class with her new owners, she will be class valedictorian for sure!

 

Please fill out an adoption application and email it to turtlegardens@gmail.com  Thank you.

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