Family Labradoodles and Goldendoodles – Suggested Puppy Supplies

Crates

Can’t live without it. Airline crates work fine in a pinch but are hard to clean, hot, and your puppy’s visibility is compromised. Especially in the beginning, they need their new family-you- to be in view. Your puppy will feel isolated and frightened otherwise. Remember that they have been with mom and their brothers and sisters for comfort and love for their entire lives thus far. Being all alone is a scary new thing for them. A towel or washable crate pad is needed for the bottom. I have found washing dog beds and crate liners difficult. The bulk prohibits the stuffing materials to dry thoroughly. A great product that I happily recommend is the Wash-‘n-Zip.

Crate Type and Style

The wire type with cleanable pull-out tray bottom is ideal.
I like the 2 door style because it gives you more placement options.

Bed

Not a necessity but most puppies like the comfort and secure feeling that a bed with padded sides gives them. Your puppy has been sleeping in a bed since he was able to crawl up into its cozy fleece.

You can put it near you but removed from the activity of the family. Remember that puppies need many naps and quiet time. Here is a link to a bed that has zippered washable covers. As you can imagine, Dog Beds come in every price range, color and style. Here is just one that we like:

Essential Cleanups

There will be accidents…it’s going to happen sometime so best to be prepared with products that work! Here are our tried and trues. Click the bottle to go to the product page:

For Healthy Ears

Here are our recommended products to keep your puppy’s ears healthy.

Toys, Toys, and More Toys!

Labradoodles love their toys! Balls are mandatory but it’s those squeaky toys that carry the day. Try rotating some of the favorites out of the mix and reintroducing them later- Just like all new toys again. The talking toys are a real favorite as well. You will need to confiscate these periodically for your sanity’s sake. They do love the toys that talk back.

We highly recommend these very special toys. Click the images to go to the product pages!

House Training Aids

Short of installing a pet door for your puppy’s access to the outside, you may want to consider Bell Training. Labradoodles and Goldendoodles learn to use the bells almost immediately! I suggest you not use the bells that attach directly to your door. Place them adjacent to the door that you want them to use. There are excellent training and installation instructions included. They just require a simple hook and you’re ready to train! The “Tell Bell” is placed on the floor and works great.

Here are some products we recommend! Click the images to go to product pages!

Puppy Confinement

Remember that your puppy can find himself in harm’s way faster than you can imagine. Electrical cords, Lego pieces, socks, shoes, paper, absolutely anything that isn’t nailed down.
When someone is not able to keep an eye on your very busy puppy you may want to safely confine him without always relegating him to his crate.

Here are a few suggestions:

Baby/Pet Gates

There are so many on the market that cover nearly every configuration imaginable. Here are a few:

Exercise Pens

Again, there are a myriad of x-pens available to suit any environment, indoors, outside, play enclosures that can extend your puppy’s exercise area used in conjunction with his crate, folding types, stackable panels, travel pens, those that can accommodate additional panels if needed, plastic, mesh and metal.

All sizes and price ranges are available