Utilizing Puppy Culture

We strive to produce the most well rounded, steady going, and confident puppies and later adult dogs we can. Giving your puppy the right start to life from the very beginning helps with that. This is why we do “Puppy Culture” with all of our puppies starting from day 1.

What is Puppy Culture?

 

Decades of Experience

Puppy Culture takes the best puppy husbandry practices from over the last 150 years and formalized them into a systematic program. We have used most of these protocols, but what we like best about Puppy Culture is that it has connected each protocol to specific developmental markers. This makes is much easier and effective to not only do the right thing, but to do it at the right time for optimal results.

Some of the Protocols

  • Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS) to enhance the development of strong nervous systems

  • Barrier Challenge to instill problem-solving ability and teach the puppies frustration tolerance

  • Conditioned Emotional Responses to teach positive associations with important puppy skills, such as crate training, grooming, veterinary handling, enjoying the company of humans, and having manners

  • Manding, which is a way of teaching puppies to offer polite behaviors and asking for attention, instead of jumping, barking, etc. 

  • Attention to People to teach a puppy to be confident enough to make eye contact with humans, and to use this as a communication method 

  • Resource Guarding Prevention to help prevent the unwanted behavior of puppies or dogs guarding food, toys, people, or other valued items. 

  • Habituation to and desensitization of loud noises and new experiences, such as a vacuum, lawn mower, and roller suitcase.

The Results:

Puppies who are raised in an environment that utilizes Puppy Culture are better equipped to handle the world around them as they grow and mature throughout their lives.

They are more confident, relaxed, and outgoing. Puppy Culture helps us provide the best Golden Retrievers we possibly can.

Sources:

What are puppy culture and AVIDOG. Cosmopolitan Companion Dogs. (n.d.). Retrieved April 9, 2022, from https://www.cosmopolitandogs.com/what-are-puppy-culture-and-avidog

Must Love Dogs. (n.d.). Elite Puppies. Must Love Dogs. Retrieved April 9, 2022, from https://mustlovedoodles.com/puppy-culture