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Sydney’s 8 1/2 Week Old Puppies

The Boys

Mr. Light Blue-“Birdie”

Sydney's Mr. Light Blue
Sydney's Mr. Light Blue
Sydney's Mr. Light Blue

Mr. Yellow Paws-“Stone”

Sydney's Mr. Yellow
Sydney's Mr. Yellow
Sydney's Mr. Yellow

Mr. White – “Eddie”

Sydney's Mr. White
Sydney's Mr. White

Mr. Stripe – “Findlay”

Sydney's Mr. Stripe
Sydney's Mr. Stripe
Sydney's Mr. Stripe

Mr. Tan – “Rigley”

We accidentally deleted the third picture of Rigley. So sorry!!

Sydney's Mr. Tan
Sydney's Mr. Tan

The Girls

Miss Flower – “Kaia”

Sydney's Miss Flower
Sydney's Miss Flower
Sydney's Miss Flower

Miss Bubbles – “Lexi”

Sydney's Miss Bubbles
Sydney's Miss Bubbles
Sydney's Miss Bubbles

Miss Lady Bug- “Madison”

Sydney's Miss Lady Bug
Sydney's Miss Lady Bug
Sydney's Miss Lady Bug

8 1/2 Week Old Puppies: Developmental Information

By 8 1/2 weeks, training is well underway.

Meal time manners has moved from puppies merely eating in their crates to puppies learning to give eye contact and wait for a release command before eating. At this age, we are working heavily on training them to like and willingly give eye contact. This is a very important foundation for our training. We spend a whole lot of time on the basics so that the more advanced work comes easier, quicker, and more solid.

By 8 1/2 weeks, we’ve been working on the down/stay for almost two weeks. Puppies have been working on our stationary heeling exercises and finding heel position for over a week. They’ve started moving in heel position and puppies are learning to love focusing on and working with a person.

You can read about how we raise our younger puppies on our Raising Puppies page .

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We focus on breeding and training beautiful English Golden Retriever puppies with health tested champion parents, great pedigrees, and fantastic temperaments.

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