Blog Posts - FIRESIDE POODLES

Puppy Treats! (Good for training your new puppy)

1/5/2020

We were recently asked what kind of treats that we recommend for training treats. So we are putting together a little post here about what we like to use with our puppies. For training we recommend only soft treats. Crunchy treats leave a mess and are too hard to chew during training sessions. Here are some of our favorites:

My favorite on the list is the meat rolls from Happy Howies. We have used the turkey, lamb and beef and just love these for our dogs to train with. We usually end up getting a larger roll and cutting them up into bite sized pieces and freezing them until needed. These rolls are great but don't have preservatives so they need to be refrigerated once opened (up to a week) or frozen. Chewy.com and Amazon also sell these rolls and some times are cheaper than the actual Happy Howie website. https://www.happyhowies.com/product-category/premium-meat-rolls/
We also use Zuke's mini all natural training treats. We love the rabbit and duck, because they give your puppy some thing a little different flavor wise for training. Petsmart, Petco, Amazon, Chewy.com all sell these treats as well. www.zukes.com/dog-treats/training/mini-naturals-rabbit-recipe
Another training treat that we like to use is Wellness Soft Puppy Bites. They have other formulations of the soft treats for adult dogs as well. Chewy and other major pet retailers carry these as well. We don't recommend the crunchy for training purposes. www.wellnesspetfood.com/natural-dog-food/snacks
Primal also has some options that may work well for you with your puppies as well. primalpetfoods.com/collections/treats

Puppy Three Week Photos!

12/3/2019

Three week photos of the puppies are up!
They have been having lots of social interaction with humans. Listening to new sounds (we play lots of different sounds like fireworks, babies crying, etc), listening to classical music, and listening to the Grinch movie!
They are all above three pounds in weight and are doing amazing.
We have also started one new experience a day with the puppies.
Puppy gruel starts later this week too, big week for these little cuties!
We still have one opening on our waitlist for these amazing little puppies!

Two Week Photos Are UP!

11/30/2019

Fireside Puppy Watch and Pupdate

11/1/2019

While we are on puppy watch this week.....The Colorado Brewery Tour Litter is a year old! Here are pictures of the puppies all grown up to a year old!

Jake (Eddyline)

Gareth (Denver)

Franklin (Grist)

Cookie (Bristol)

Jagger (Oskar)

Cody (O'Dell)

Pregnancy is confirmed.

10/2/2019

Violet's pregnancy was confirmed this morning! Vet said they looked great. We have our X-ray scheduled for November 5th to get the final puppy count before whelping!

Upcoming Litter Update

9/11/2019

Upcoming litter news here at Fireside

9/2/2019

We are excited to announce that: UKC Grand Champion WeKay's Lightning in a Bottle: Violet is going to be bred to UKC Champion Ramzees Captain Augustus Mccrae RI CA BCAT RATS FDC CGC TKN SPOT-ON VCX: Gus. Puppies should be born in November if everything is successful and ready to go home in January. This will be a parti colored litter of puppies. This should be a litter of smaller standards as Violet and Gus are both 21.5" at the withers.

The End of Summer Wrap Up

8/9/2019

Summer is winding up here in Colorado for our family, lots of fun for all was had. We hope the summer was wonderful for you all as well!
Emmy is growing up and doing well and we are planning on showing her this November for her first UKC show.
Violet is getting ready to be bred, her health testing is all done again, and we just have to wait for her to come into season.
Jagger is back with his co-owner after winning his UKC Championship.

New UKC Champion!

7/23/2019

Introducing Firesides Moves Like Jagger at Windswept NEW UKC Champion! Violet's son Jagger just completed his UKC Champion title this weekend. Jagger had two best of breeds, and went best male, best male puppy Saturday and Sunday.

Jagger showed well despite not being handled by his co-owner and this only being his second show at not even 9 months of age. We can't wait to get him into the Champion ring and start working on his Grand Championship and hopefully group placements.

Jagger is co-owned with Angela Morgan of Windswept Poodles in Colorado Springs.

Summer is hard work!

6/6/2019

Summer here at Fireside means lots of outings for our dogs with our family. Emmy is doing wonderful with puppy training and it getting lots of socialization with our family. The last week has been lots of baseball playoffs for the boys, and Emmy has been coming with us. Emmy enjoys all of the new people and the dogs she gets to meet at the games. We are also working on focusing and training out in public, she's doing an amazing job! Happy and tired puppies tend to fall asleep right when we get in the car.