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- Hi, everybody, Claire here, from Van Isle Labradoodles,
and we're here today with some really exciting news,
this is the first video for the Razzle Dazzle litter.
And, you'll see that this is a litter of just four puppies,
but it is a pretty spectacular litter.
It was a bit of a marathon litter too.
Ripple, even though these are just mini labradoodles,
thought she'd take a long time
to actually produce the puppies.
She wasn't actually in labor for very long at all,
but she was in the pre stages of labor,
for just about 14 hours,
it wasn't even four hours in total that she was in labor.
so less than an hour per puppy,
and if you'll remember from the Cafe Noir litter,
those are medium Australian Labradoodle puppies,
and Oceana was in labor for nine hours
to have nine puppies, so about an hour a puppy.
So Ripple was close to the same amount of time,
but she did keep us up for 41 hours in total.
Cause we started our regular day,
and she started her pre labor late in that evening.
We stayed up with her all night,
kept expecting them to arrive at any moment,
and then they finally made their appearance
just around seven pm on Monday, January the 21st.
So they're all happy, healthy, beautiful
mini Australian Labradoodle puppies.
Now one of the things we talked about
in the Blond Brownie's litter,
was patterns and colors.
So today we're gonna introduce you to each of the puppies,
we're gonna talk a little bit about
their very unique colors,
cause these puppies do have unique patterns in them.
And then we're gonna do the weighing,
tell you what color their collars will be.
We're not gonna actually put their collars on,
because they are so brand new,
they're not even 24 hours old yet.
So just taking their weight is enough stress for them today,
and then we'll put their collars on them sometime tomorrow.
So we'll do that,
we'll talk a little bit about how Ripple's doing
and what's going on and then
we'll conclude the video for the day.
So, lets get started.
First of all, these are, as I said,
mini Australian Labradoodle puppies,
Ripple, herself is a mini, and she weighs 18, 19 pounds,
and the husband of this litter is Mack.
And Mack is from Alpine Labradoodles,
and Mack, himself is maybe about 19 or 20 pound,
Ripple and Mack are almost the same size.
Now, Ripple, as you can see, is a parti.
Now, parti, if you don't know refers to two colors in a dog.
So you can see her puppies are all parti,
they're all black and white.
Mack is a black and white tri,
and we're gonna talk a little bit
more about what tri is in a moment.
Ripple, herself is a sable,
but she also is able to produce black,
obviously as you can see,
so all these puppies are black
because black is always the most dominant color.
And one of the most exciting thing about
Australian Labradoodles is that they come in
so many different sizes
and so many different patterns and colors.
So we're excited to show you this litter
and some very unique features of them.
The Cafe Noir litter, as you know
if you subscribe to our YouTube channel
and have been following along on the updates for that,
is a beautiful all one color litter.
Those are all chocolate labradoodles.
Those puppies are medium sized labradoodles.
The litter before that,
that we have all the updates for on YouTube
is the Blonde Brownies litter.
That litter was what we refer to as a rainbow litter.
There were different patterns,
there were different colors,
there was all sorts of things in that litter with Spirit.
So, you can tell just in three litters,
how much variation there is
amongst the breed of labradoodles,
and it is one of the most unique qualities,
and one of the most fun ones.
So these puppies are going to weigh considerably less
than what Oceana's did at birth.
And, we have two boys and two girls,
so we have a totally even split there,
which was very kind of Ripple to do,
very accommodating of her,
and you can see Ripple's doing really well,
she's entirely relaxed, she's not even panting,
despite it being very warm in here.
We have the heat turned up to
about 23 and a half degrees Celsius
to keep the puppies warm.
You'll see how they're spread out,
they're not huddled,
so that means they're quite happy at this temperature,
if they were all huddled together in a little group,
then it would be telling us its a bit too cool for them,
and if they were much more spread out,
we would know that they are too hot.
We don't overheat the room,
because we don't want our moms to be uncomfortable.
We try to keep it so its tolerable for them,
we also don't mind if it is a bit warm though,
to encourage them to drink.
It's really important that Ripple
has lots of water right now,
as she's busy feeding all of them,
and for good milk production,
its necessary for her to also have good fluid intake.
she's back to eating,
she didn't eat at all for about 28 hours
before the puppies were born,
but she's got her appetite back now.
She's had about a pound, pound and a half so far today,
of her raw food, and we won't overload her today,
to try to get her system back to normal.
But you can see she's spotless,
she hasn't lost any weight,
you can see she's not skinny,
and she is so content and relaxed, which is really great.
We go to great lengths to make sure our moms
are as comfortable as they can be.
So lets start with each of the puppies,
we're gonna start with this little girl over here,
and you can see that she is a black and white parti.
Now what I'm hoping is that some of her other markings
are gonna show up on the camera as well.
Now if you watch our videos regularly,
you'll know that all puppies are born blind,
deaf and unable to eliminate on their own.
So you'll hear me talking to the puppies,
I always talk to them,
even though they can't hear a word
that I'm saying right now.
But when I have the puppies,
I take time to hold them right up close to my neck,
this helps them get used to my scent,
and become familiar with me,
and learn that people are good,
and she can also feel the vibrations
in my chest when I talk.
So all of those things are great starting points
for each of the puppies.
As soon as they open their eyes,
from the first memory they have,
anything to do with people is a good one.
So we make sure that,
they always associate people
with something that's really pleasant.
So this little lady is, as I said, a black and white parti.
You can see that she has a really gorgeous face.
She has a lot of white on her face,
which is really quite unique.
And if you can see just inside her ear here,
she has copper markings, those are called tan points,
that means that she has some sable,
Ripple herself is a sable.
So this girl is a parti, she is not a tri color,
she is just a parti,
she doesn't have any other colored markings,
other than the little smidge of color that's in her ears.
Now as she matures and gets a little bit older,
we may see more of those sable markings make an appearance.
We may see some come on the side of her face,
that's what happened with Big Mack,
the boy in the litter from the Blonde Brownies,
he was black and white.
And at first he was just like her,
all black and white,
with just a little hint of that copper in his ears.
But by the time he was six weeks old,
he had quite a bit more of those tan markings,
and tan points.
So we're gonna make this little open faced girl,
she is gonna be red collar, and like I said,
we're not gonna put the collars on right now,
but that will be her color.
So there we've got the scale sorted out,
and she weighs 218 grams.
And she does not enjoy being in the box
away from her mom and away from her siblings,
of course, as you know, she's not even 24 hours old,
so that's quite a bit of stress for her in the day,
and more than enough.
So, we're gonna put her right back with Ripple,
and Ripple's gonna make sure everything's okay.
She's gonna give her some extra comfort there,
give her an extra little kiss and a little lick.
And, we'll move on to this puppy here.
This puppy is a boy,
and you'll see on this one,
he still has some of his umbilical cord,
one of the others has quite a long umbilical cord
still on there.
So this puppy is not only a parti, as you can see,
cause he's a gorgous black and white,
and he has a lot of heavy black marking on him.
But if you'll see on the side of his face here,
his very handsome face, you can see his tan markings,
those are phantom markings,
he also has the same markings right under his bum,
which he doesn't really want to show you.
And you can also see his eyebrows are the same tan points.
Ripple's getting a little bit worried
that I'm holding him up like that,
so I'm just gonna have him closer to her,
so she can be comforted that everything's okay with him.
So looks like this baby is gonna be a tri,
now a tri is very unique in labradoodle world,
not seen very often, so we're pretty excited about that.
So, we'll just put our scale back on here,
and we'll get a weight on him.
We'll just put him in the box here.
Here we go, its okay Ripple.
And he weighs 265 grams, now here you go.
We don't like to have Ripple too anxious about things,
but its really good, as you can see,
that she does get worried when
I take the puppies away from her,
so that's a great thing,
cause that makes us very confident that
she's being a very attentive mom,
and looking after her puppies well.
And for that puppy we just did,
we'll make him blue collar boy.
Now we'll go over here, and we'll take this little one here,
just cause she happens to be closest to me, oh no he.
And this is the one I was saying has the
quite long string left on his umbilical cord.
I'm gonna hold him a little bit lower
to keep Ripple a little bit happier about things,
if she watches.
So this puppy too is also black and white and a parti.
And if Ripple will keep her tongue off of him,
you could see those same beautiful tan points,
on the side of his face,
and same thing under his bum as well.
I won't lift him up too high
because she does get quite worried about that.
So lets see how much this little boy weighs,
we'll just put him in here,
and he is going to weigh 256 grams,
so very, very close in weight to his brother
rather that we just weighed.
And you can see again, Ripple's up,
she's a little bit worried about
all of what's going on here.
This is the first litter that Ripple has had
where we videoed.
So she's not too sure exactly what it is
that the people are doing with her babies.
There we go, there you go, good girl.
So we will make that last puppy there,
we'll make him purple collar boy.
So we've got purple, blue, and red,
and we'll make the last little girl,
will be pink collar girl.
I just have to make sure I get the right puppy here.
There we go, whoopsie, we get that one go over there.
And, yeah this is our little girl.
So she is of course again, a black and white parti.
She has a really beautiful way her markings
have all gone together in the back there.
And just like the last puppy, you can see,
she has those phantom markings
on the side of her face and on her eyebrows,
and she has that beautiful white blaze on her forehead.
And lets see what she weighs,
just put her in there.
And she weighs 288 grams,
so she's a good size,
she's bigger than both of her brothers there.
There we go, and we'll just put her
right up here with Ripple.
So there that's all of them,
and we'll make her pink collar girl.
So we have pink, red, purple, and blue collars,
and next time when we do the one week update,
we'll be sure to have all their collars on.
But you can see it doesn't take too much
get everything upset, and Ripple mostly,
unhappy with how things are going,
and we really don't wanna do that
when they're this brand new.
We want to make sure we do everything,
so that Ripple's settled in with her family,
and that the puppies are able to nurse and do well.
Now the reason why we weigh them,
right away when they're born like this,
is so we can keep track of their weight.
Its really important for us to know
that they're gaining steadily.
If a puppy isn't gaining, or if they happen to lose,
then that means we have to pay attention,
figure out what's going on,
cause then something is wrong.
So we want to always make sure,
that we weigh them multiple times throughout the day,
for the first week and then we do it daily thereafter.
And then by the time they're three weeks,
we only weigh them about once a week.
And then by the time they are five weeks,
they don't fit on our scale anymore,
and we know that they're okay by then usually.
So you can see them all happily nursing,
they're pretty good,
we had to get up a few times during the night with them.
We are actually going to change
this whelping box with Ripple,
and put her in a smaller one,
just cause this one has too much room for
a small dog and small puppies.
We have this box out to have them born in,
just cause its easier for me to fit in with her,
and if you follow our Facebook page,
you will have seen the pictures of her in a blue tote box.
She spent about 12 hours in the blue tote box,
thinking that was where she was going to have them,
cause that was giving her lots of security,
having something really close,
and keeping her comfortable and safe.
And that's the same premise,
as to why dogs love crates,
cause its nice enclosed, small spot
where they feel perfectly safe.
So that's the video for today,
that's your Razzle Dazzle litter,
I hope you enjoyed it.
They are absolutely stunningly beautiful puppies.
We are so proud of Ripple and Mack,
they just did such a great job,
Ripple's being a wonderful mom,
just like she was last time.
And I don't think she knows,
but she's probably going to get a break from the next time.
So she probably won't be having puppies
again for another year or so.
So we hope she really enjoys these ones,
and we hope you enjoy them too.
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Ripple's sister Hazel will be joining us here on Monday.
And her due date is February the third,
so the sisters are going to have puppies,
at pretty much the same time,
and then after that, we have Breezy joining us
just a few days later.
So it will be really fun,
because we're gonna have Oceana,
who has her own puppies right now.
Oceana's being a great mom to the Cafe Noir litter,
and she's also going to become a grandma,
when Breezy has the Shake it up litter.
So I think that's the first time we've had a mom,
being a mom and a grandma at the same time,
I may be mistaken, but I think that's the first time.
I love you too baby.
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I'm still a bit tired,
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Thanks so much for watching.