Stag Valley Homestead

Week 4 🐾

If responses are delayed the next two days it's because we're drowing in the aftermath of an enormous project on the farm 🙏 myself or xhad usually checks at the start of the day, lunch and end of the day ;) Some fun updates! Their eyes are open and are crawling, turning to walking very quickly. This litter means business. Weekly pupdate will be Wednesday. Would love feedback on how i could make these more inclusive, more videos? The least favorite part of puppies is registration paperwork 🤣 heres to hoping these all get submitted and back to us before they go home 🙏 going to have a lot of fun extras to send home with this litter, too 🐾 Thanks again to everyone following along.

🐾 Week 2 🐾 Vet day hs come and gone with flying colors. Everyone is coming along great innweoght, size and development. It was a busy day as EVERYONE, including 2 barn cats, had to see the vet for this that, or the other on routineservices. It's been a long day 🤣 but we wanted to share a quick pupdate regardless. Individual puppy profiles will be updated this afternoon/evening when we've caught up with farm chores. Deposit day is tomorrow 👏 thank you to everyone who has been patiently waiting. A number of you have your deposits waiting to go through already, and our breeder portal only lets us set the date meaning as early as midnight mountain standard time. This is a forst for us to have SO many in line for pups waiting to place deposits, so this will be a quick go around! 😲 When placing your deposit, please list which pup you are aiming for. As a reminder, we match pups in order of deposit received, so if your deposit is too late for the pup of your choosing, you can absolutely choose a different pup. If no more pups are available, you are welcome to roll it over for the next litter, or it will be refunded. (Deposits are non refundable once a pup is reserved for you.) AS A REMINDER, we are planning a pairing for echo x moose to accommodate the many families who will lilely not be able to claim a pup. This pairong is planned for a late october born and a go home before the new year. If you would like to wait for that litter in order to have a better chance at selecting a pup, now is the time to have us roll your applications over to the waitlist. Otherwise, good luck and keep in mind that every person able to place a deposit today is a fellow family that has submitted an application that met our screening standards. We are so humbled to be able to place pups in some of these amazing homes. 👏

We are officially full on applicants for moose x kiwis litter with more families than we have babies! That being said, any future applicants will be offered a spot on the echo x moose waitlist 🙏 Echo has passed her pre pairing health screening, nutritional assessment, her blood pannel looks great, and she's in tip top shape for a planned pairing in September 🙌

Applications for GIRLS from Kiwi x moose are currently CLOSED :) we have room for ONE more application for a boy before this litter is full 🙌 next planned pairing is dependent on waitlist inquiries. We will not pair without 5 waitlistsers so feel free to hop on board 🐾

🐾 Week 5 pupdate 🐾 Happy Easter, everyone! This last week was a big one with tons of new experiences and adventures. So far this week, we've started on transportation training. Working up from being carried to wagon rides and soon a full car trip! We've worked on sensory exposure by smells, sounds, and sights as well as an introduction to the rest of the pack to guage social development. We had our first grooming experiences with a bath, towel dry, blow dry, teeth, and nails. We've started eating and teething and started developing our own unique personalities and playstyles. We've buddied up with our favorite siblings and started blossoming into the amazing pups we knew they'd be. This upcoming week is a busy one on the farm, and we'll be giving this opportunity to work on isolation and self soothing skills on the pups. Meaning dividing pups betwen play yards, individual crate training, and not hovering over them as much as we have been. This is beneficial to us as we get to our overdue farm projects and beneficial to them by helping them develop self entertaining and self soothing practices. All in all, we hope to see pups that are comfortable with or without us as we know that sets them up for success in households where they need to be alone sometimes without the worry for issues like separation anxiety. Stay tuned for the next update for photos videos and a brief summary of their ups and downs.

Everyone is movin' and groovin' this week, and the name of the game is EXPERIENCES. This week marks the beginning of a lot of things, outside time in the safety of the garden before the plants go in (and so we have time to disinfect, reseed grass and set up their designated puppy play area now that the weather is good), all the new smells, sights, and sounds of the outdoors, our tip toe efforts at slow and small introductions to transportation motion, time away from mom, introduction to puppy porridge, all building up to the biggest experience to come at the end of the week- first bath! Some may ask why we wait this long to bathe, and the answer is simple. Until the pup's eyes and ears become fully functional, the dominant sense is smell, which we aim to preserve as long as hygenically possible. With echo doing a fantastic job of keeping them clean, this has been no issue until the introduction of puppy porridge. As the pups start to nibble on moms food, we introduce a very soft mash for them to eat, which means our potty training race has officially begun. As this stage can be VERY messy, we want to have pups introduced to baths before the worst of it where they potentially will be getting baths twice a day on worse case days. We usually get potty training to the stage where it's typically a bath every other day, but always hope for the best and plan for the worse. At this age, starting off with a BIG experience like a bath is too drastic and an experience from the calm beginnings they've had. So, to offset that, we make a transition building to the bath that takes one of the hardest experiences and makes it flow right along with all the other changes they've taken on over a week long transition. All this week, we're going to take on new challenges, experiences, and other stimuli designed to foster the growth of each pups curiosity, thresholds, and confidence. Keep an eye on each pups individual profiles for next weeks pupdate as we hope to have some specific reports on which pups took well.or poorly to the weeks events and what our tragets are for the week ahead. 🐾 as always feel free to check out our face book group 'Stag Valley BC owners ' for more frequent videos, pics, minor pupdates and interact with other pet parents who have brought our pups home in the last few years. -Shay and Chad