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What do you recommend or not recommend regarding Puppy Shots?

We recommend that the puppies get their 6 week and 8 week Core 3 Vaccines. The core three as they are referred to are:
canine distemper virus

canine adenovirus type 2

canine parvovirus type 2,

rabies.

We have taken upon ourselves to also do the standard 6 week core 3 vaccinations that are standard by many breeders, but to make sure we know that the puppies will be fully vaccinated we are also doing the 8 week vaccinations for you.

What we personally have done to all of our dogs and continue to do, is to give them the bare minimal vaccines.

Why? Mostly because of the cancer line in the breed. We were told 25 years ago, from a seasoned Golden Retriever breeder at the time, that she gave little to no shots to her Goldens. She felt the shots were also contributing to the cancer in the breed. So, since then we decided to do the same. However, our dogs, all of them until today, have never been in a kennel or day care facility. They are not taken to local Dog Parks or any area where other dogs with diseases play. They come on vacations with us or are watched by our teenagers friend if we leave two behind. We also keep Blink cameras on at all times when we are out of the house. My son, who has the third Golden, also will watch them for us.

Noncore vaccines are those recommended for some dogs based on lifestyle, geographic location, and risk of exposure.

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DO YOU USE FLEA, TICK OR HEART WORM TREATMENTS?

What no one will tell you is you can kill fleas 100% of the time if you bath your dog. This drowns the fleas. We have never had an outbreak of fleas ever. My son just had them, and he choose to invest in $75.00 collar that not only keeps them at bay but prevents any larva from hatching new fleas. Here is the link to the site. We have had a few ticks along the way, but we find them very quickly since someone in the house is petting or laying with one of the dogs. We catch them very early so they can be removed by us and we also make sure we removed the whole tick. I think there was once over the year, we took a dog to the vet to have it removed. We would rather pay a vet fee, then pour chemicals onto our dogs. My sister has a beautiful Yellow lab. She would treat it with liquid drops and then found he was having seizures monthly. After doing her homework, she came to find many of these treatments were having the same side effects her dog was having. When we would go camping, we would for 3 days put a flee and tick collar on them when we went dense into wooded areas. I also will use essentials oils such as tea tree on them every now and then.

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Should we go out and buy a small crate and then when the puppy grows out of it, we can go buy a permanent, bigger crate?

We highly recommend crate training. Lola and Lucy still love their crates. We leave the door open now so they can come and go as they want, as well as our Boston Terrier and Bichapoo. When we leave the house, we still feel leaving them in a crate is the safest place we can keep them, especially under the age of one.

If you do happen to have a small crate from prior use, use it if you want. I would. This way you have time to look for a crate. I would also recommend you purchase a used on if you want to save some money. We have purchased many on Facebook Market place. I also recommend if you do decided to use a large crate, you must use some kind of portion in the crate. The size of the area you need to give the puppy in the large crate should only be room enough for the puppy to stand up and turn around. By nature, dogs will not go potty in the same area they sleep in. As the puppy grows and is fully housebroken, we remove any dividers I will be sending home with everyone some cut up blankets or wash clothes that we have used daily on them or have all been placed in with their litter mates. It will not be pretty, but it will have spent time with your puppy while it was in our care. Often times, I hear stories where these little tattered pieces of fabric become the puppies favorite possession. If I have the time, I will try to sew hems on them so you can continue to wash them. Or I will cut with my shearing scissors.