Daisy and Ted

28/06/2025

The wee fellas are getting very enthusiastic about their food now! 😍 (And are MUCH better at eating it and not walking/sitting in it. 😆) Sound on if you enjoy the wee eating noises!)

26/06/2025

The puppies are four weeks old and are doing so much now - it’s hard to know what to post!!! Facebook doesn’t let you have photos and videos in the same post on a business page for some reason, and only one video at a time. 🙃 So I’ll do a wee photo dump now and then post some videos up over the next few days. 😊

The puppies are doing a whole lot more than eating and sleeping now! They’re playing with each other, learning to eat solid food and drink water from a bowl, practising all sorts of noises, interacting with the other dogs here, and they’ve had some time out of their pen exploring the lounge. They’ve also had their first bath, and they’ve met a few visitors over the last few days! Big week for the puppies! 😍

They’re ridiculously cute and have now transformed from the funny wee slug puppies to teeny little dogs! 😆 And now that they’ve had a bath, they’re so fluffy and you can see the waves/curls coming in! 🥰 In the next few days they’re going to be upgraded to the big puppy playroom where they’ll get exposed to loads of different toys and other kinds of stimulation and challenges over the next few weeks. 😁

22/06/2025

Twenty-five days old. 🥰

Eyes open, ears open, walking, exploring, and starting to have their first experiences of food! 😊

21/06/2025

WE INTERRUPT OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING TO BRING YOU AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. 😉

This is Pippa! 💜

Pippa will (fingers crossed) be joining our breeding programme, now that Daisy is retiring. 🥰 (I’m just waiting on the results of her DNA tests to make sure she’s not carrying any dodgy genes before I can confirm that we will be using her! 🤞)

She’s almost four months old, and has secretly been with me for about six weeks. 😆 Nothing like having a little puppy at the same time as the babies! 🤪😂 She’s a LOVELY wee dog, although she does attempt to flood my kitchen every day, splashing around in her water bowl. 😑😅

The plan is actually to have her in a guardian home - where she lives with somebody else but is technically owned by me and I retain breeding rights for a few years until she retires and the ownership is transferred. This is a real win-win, as it allows us to maintain a small, ethical breeding programme while ensuring each dog has a loving, permanent home, and it also allows a person/family to have a quality dog at very low cost. I might have a home sorted for Pippa, so please don’t get too excited just yet 😉 (although I will let you know if it doesn’t work out) but if this sort of arrangement interests you, have a look at all the info in the “Guardian programme” section of our website (https://www.daisyandted.co.nz/guardian-programme.html). We’re looking to add a male toy poodle and another couple of females (probably spoodles, but not necessarily) to the breeding programme over the next couple of years. 🥰

18/06/2025

Three weeks old! And thriving! 😍

The puppies now weigh between 810g (little Chilli) and 1030g (Bluey). They’re practising their walking and getting stronger by the day! 🤩

The faces of the three little girls are developing and I don’t think it’ll be long until I can tell them apart by more than just the colour of their noses. 😄 And Bandit is such a beautiful caramel colour. 🥰

I’m not sure what’s going on with Bingo in this video - she’s all over the place! 😂

15/06/2025

This is not the MOST exciting two-minute video, but I think you’ll like it. 😉 I just caught the puppies playing with each other for the first time!! 😍 (Up until now they’ve been pretty unaware of their own and each other’s existence. 😆) Also check out their walking, and the little eyes opening up! 🥰

11/06/2025

Puppies are two weeks old today! I was going to say no eyes are open yet, but Bandit’s are JUST starting! 🤩 They’ll all be open in the next couple of days. 🥰 I LOVE this time - over the next couple of weeks their development will be RAPID. They’ll suddenly turn into teeny wee dogs, it’s quite incredible. I also caught one of the girls walking up on her legs today! 😍 The wee girls are still almost identical - the biggest difference is that they all have different coloured noses. Chilli’s is black, Bingo’s is a light pinky-brown, and Bluey’s is somewhere in the middle. Bluey and Bingo don’t have any white on them apart from a tiny bit on the bottom of their back feet, and Chilli has a tiny white spot on her chest and some of her back toes. 🥰They’re chunky little monkeys too!! Weighing in at between 660-720 grams at two weeks - MUCH bigger at this age than Daisy and Mossy’s previous litter. This is probably because of sharing resources between 4 puppies rather than 5, but it also might mean they end up a bit bigger than the 5-6kgs I was predicting! 🙊

05/06/2025

Sad to see this article in the news today, so have decided to repost something I wrote last year. Unfortunately, puppy scams seem to be very common these days! 😢 I would definitely recommend not EVER paying a deposit on a puppy you haven’t met either in person or on a video call.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/elderly-christchurch-woman-caught-puppy-scam?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4Jln3b6VUmXW5jD1m98yGix4a4Rxza9YJrj7ESI6A-xpfmOWAmiQG2TXazWw_aem_BMOpS_NAs3esHVc4L2BA4A

I had an interesting start to my day!

A woman in England contacted me - she was looking at a dog to rehome (in England) and became suspicious that it was a scam, so did a reverse image search and believes they have used photos of one of our Daisy & Ted dogs!! 😲😡

This is a wee reminder to be very careful - there are a lot of dodgy people out there, and thank goodness this lady thought to check. Please thoroughly investigate any dog you’re looking into to make sure the seller is reputable and the dog actually exists!! If you cannot meet the dog in person before putting any money down, see if a friend can visit on your behalf, or do a video call. Ask lots of questions and make sure you are satisfied with the answers. MASSIVE red flag if the seller will not let you see a dog in person or doesn’t engage with you and spend time talking with you.

A good breeder will:
🔸 be happy for you to meet a dog or puppy you are interested in, and for you to see the environment it is being raised in
🔸 be knowledgeable and transparent about the health of the dogs, the breeds they are dealing with, and good breeding practices
🔸 have DNA tested their breeding lines to provide certainty that their puppies cannot develop any heritable diseases the breeds may be susceptible to. A health check from the vet is good but is not the same thing. Knowing you have clear genetics from the start can minimise costs and heartache down the line.
🔸 answer all your questions, and also have questions for YOU, as they will care deeply about their puppies and want to know about the homes they are going to.
🔸 support you through the adoption process and afterwards, as you navigate life with a baby dinosaur! 😄

If you’re getting a bad feeling about a breeder/seller, don’t rush into anything! Do your homework, or pass on that puppy, even if it is the cutest little thing you have ever laid eyes on. There will be another equally adorable one just around the corner, I promise! 🩷

04/06/2025

The puppies are one week old! 🥳
It’s remarkable how quickly they grow. Mind you, that is their full-time job at the moment!
Daisy is once again being a fantastic wee mum and all is going very well. 🥰

29/05/2025

Well, we didn’t have to wait too long! Daisy laboured through the night right after my last post, and brought four beautiful puppies into the world! 😍 One little boy (the lighter coloured one) followed by three identical little girls. (Hopefully they will develop some distinguishing features as they grow! 😄)

Introducing Bandit, Chilli, Bluey, and Bingo! 😁🥰🥳

27/05/2025

It’s a waiting game….

Daisy’s puppies are due at the end of this week, but really could come anytime from now. 🐶 🥰 How many do you think are in that wee tummy?!

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I just want to take this opportunity to explain something, before the puppies arrive and there’s a significant uptick in my posting activity! 😆

Facebook does not allow the sale of animals, and if it looks like that’s what I’m doing, this page could be shut down without warning. So just want to make it very clear that this page is simply for updates on our dogs and on the development of our puppies. That might mean that some of the wording in my posts seems a little odd, and will definitely mean I won’t say anything related to the process of buying one of these puppies here. For all the information around that, please see our website - www.daisyandted.co.nz. There is a page there about how to adopt one of our puppies. (Also, I am about to get unbelievably busy 🤪 so for my sake, PLEASE read the info on the website before you message me with questions! I am confident that everything you need to know to help with your decision-making is there, and I will very much look forward to hearing from you if you think this is the right time and the right puppy for you! 🥰)

08/05/2025

Hello! 👋🏻 Time for a very overdue update from us!! 😅

It’s been a busy couple of months! 😮‍💨 We moved house at the start of April, so now we’re back in Dunedin city, which is GREAT. The dogs are adjusting to being town dogs and getting their exercise in the bush and around the streets, instead of at the beach.

In the middle of moving, Daisy came on heat. 🙄 I whisked her up to Christchurch to mate with Mossy, and I am thrilled to finally be able to tell you that she is pregnant!! 🥳 If all goes well, we will be expecting puppies around King’s birthday weekend, and they will be ready to go to their new homes at the start of August. 🥰

These puppies will be toy spoodles - most likely around 5 kgs and 30cm tall at the shoulder when fully grown, and they will definitely be on the apricot-red colour spectrum, non-shedding, and likely soft wavy fleece, rather than tight curly wool. Please see our previous photos of Daisy and Mossy’s first litter, born August 2023, for an idea of what they’ll be like.

This will be Daisy’s third and final litter! She’s been an amazing wee mum and has produced gorgeous puppies, but I think three litters is a lot on a wee body so I don’t intend to breed any of my dogs more than that. Our next litter (if all goes according to plan 🤞) will be from Bonnie and Rupert - both first timers! I’m not sure when Bonnie will come on heat, but it’ll likely be more towards the end of the year or early next year. I’ll be sure to keep you posted! 😁

If you are interested in adding one of Daisy’s puppies to your family, please:
• read all the info on our website (www.daisyandted.co.nz) - the answers to your questions are probably there!
• talk to all the members of your household to make sure everybody is on board
• take some time to consider the time, effort, and costs involved with owning a dog to be sure this really is the right time for you
• …then get in touch! 😁