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Bonnie and Magic

This is Bonnie and Magic from Baileys litter. Magic stands at the same height as Baileys now and Bonnie stands at almost the same height as Steve our Stud although he is not the dad to these two.

Bonnie and Magic have brought so much laughter and fun to our lives it is hard to imagine being without them. We have the catapult race around the garden where they bounce of our willow fencing and catapult themselves across the garden. The love to fly through the air as if they were pilots out of the Red Arrows team. But when they are not playing they have the most loyal and genuine interest in what is going on around them and love to be part of the atmosphere. There is never a dull moment in the house as the two of them love to snuggle up and love to give and receive lots and lots of affection.

Bonnie and Magic are now 8months old and are maturing into little ladies very often taking over the role of mum when new puppies arrive in the house and showing them the do's and don't of a dogs life.

Important Notice

Well this is us, so you can now put our faces to our names. We are a small hobby breeder. We hope to provide dogs for service work and disabled people. Our aim is to help others who would love to have a dog bred for the purpose of helping disabled and less fortunate families than ourselves. All our dogs are our pets and have fantastic temperaments. We hope in the future to be able to produce a litter or 2 a year and hope in time we may be able move onwards and upwards.

My aim is to be able to train all our dogs to become PAT Dogs (Pets as Therapy Dogs) as I no only too well how a Pat Dog helps not only the individual but various other factors in peoples lives. I now how much my dogs have helped me regain my life and the ability to do things I would not be able to do and I would love to be able to share the experiences I have with others.

My dogs are my life and also Adams, they spend there lives having fun, and lolling around the house and garden and running down the beach. Dogs are people orientated and my aim is to make that happens and to produce High Quality genuine, loyal trustworthy family dogs that are suitable for training to high calibre for the disabled.

This doesn't happen overnight and takes time, patience and a lots of money. Any puppy that we produce will be offered to various Disabled Dog Training charites first and foremost so they can choose which dog they would like out of our litter for training purposes's. then other puppies will be sold on to recover our costs.

Our dogs live in the family home with us and are very much part of our family very often finding a wake up call with a slobery kiss or a dog laying ontop of you with big brown eyes watching you breath in the early hours of the morning, they love there cuddles and love to be involved in whatever our family are doing.

Pembrokeshire Doodles does not make a profit at this stage but in the future we hope we may do, but that is a few years off yet.

Kind Regards,

Adam, Adele and Dogs
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Serving the provide Dogs for Disabled Charities.

Daisy

Daisy has gone to a fantastic home with three children and two wonderful adults and a cat. She is a delight and an absolute angel. She is very much missed, but we no she has found the most fantastic home and is very much loved by the whole family.

She has settled in well and is being thoroughly spoilt.

We wish her all the very best. Lots of love and best wishes to Daisy's new family.

George Baileys/Ralph

George Baileys has now also found a new home and has been renamed Ralph. He is enjoying his new life and is very much loved by his very overwhelmed but happy new owner. Good luck and I no he will give you as much fun as he gave us. Good luck.

Toki

Toki, the first of our puppies has gone to his new home. he is coming on very well and has even decided to go and share a shower with his new mum. I wish Toki all the best in his new home and I no he will be very much loved and well looked after.

Newgale Beach Coastal Walk

Ok. As it was such a beautiful day, we thought while the puppies were having there well earned sleep, we would take the Adults for a good walk, the tide was too high so, we decided to take them along part of one of our beautiful coastal walks above Newgale Beach. Brandy our Golden Retriever Stud and our New Poodle Stud "Steve" and of course Baileys the bestest mum in the world. We spent a good couple of hours walking and then went back to the van and then down for some water for the dogs and meet up with some of Adams surfer dudes. A lovely morning had by all, come home and the pups had just woken up, fed and watered, the dogs fell asleep and the pups went off to play and well Adam and I finaly had some breakfast.
So here is a photo of the three dogs on the cliff path above our beautiful Newgale Beach.

We would like to dedicate this page to Brandy, very much missed and loved.

He will always be in our hearts.

This is my mum Baileys, she is taking a well earned rest. I am Bonnie and I like playing with my mum, I am a very busy girl. My owners are keeping me for use in the future so I can have puppies like my mum.

We have a special breeding program were we help disabled people, my mummy breeds a certain amount of her puppies to help others who need help around the home, so they can have a best friend and a helper. And the others our owners have to sell to help pay for the big bills we give them. Our owners love each and every one of us.

When we were born, our owners never left our side for three whole weeks, making sure we were all right and didn't get squashed, they also spent a lot of time helping our mum with her puppies and taking over when our mum got tired.

Well it has paid off because we have all grown into beautiful puppies.
We love our mum Baileys. xxxxxxxxxx

It's a Puppies life. My name is George Baileys and this is my dug out. My Auntie Kiki made it for me and I tried to help. Oh I like it here, I can see all that goes on in the garden and a cool place to rest my weary eyes.

I have just had my first jab and didn't even whimper, in fact our vet Nigel said that we were all very good puppies and he loved us all. He couldn't get over how good we all were and how healthy we all were. In fact he said my Owners should be very proud of us as we were all very well behaved, he is well pleased with my owners. And as for my mum, he said she is a credit to all us puppies and she deserves a well earned rest, which she is getting, my owners have promised her a holiday with them when they go for break, my mum can come too, my mum is an Angel, I have the bestest mum and dad in the whole world.

7 Weeks

It is now, 7 weeks last Thursday that Baileys had these beautiful puppies.
They will all be leaving for their new home at the end of May onwards and we will find
it very strange to be without them. They have all given us hours of joy and laughter.
The picture you see here is of Smudge on the right and Stanley on the left.
These guys have a much curlier coat and take more after their dad.
As you can see they are finishing off the hole Baileys and her sister made earlier in the week.
Baileys is now relaxing and leaving the pups for most of the day, only interacting when needed. The pups are very independant now and tend to find their own little spaces to sleep in peace from their siblings. There is normally a fight for space under the fishtank or the coffee table.

6 Weeks has Flown

Time has flown and so have the pups.

The pups will be coming up 7 weeks on Thursday and it seems like only yesterday that they were all just little bundles of fur. Now they are giant fluffy bundles of fur, with character. The pups have been so much fun and are so well behaved, we will miss them when they go to their new homes. The first puppies will be leaving at the end of May with the last leaving us in the middle of June. Thankfully we will be keeping two little girls. Bonnie (Cream) and Magic (Black) so we will be able to keep you updated on their progress as they grow up and become mums themselves, hopefully in a couple of years time.

proper dogs now?

A snap from the weekend. As you can see, the puppies have got some poise now. They can cover the ground pretty quickly, fight and bite, all in play so far.

Now that they are eating solid food, their weight gain has increased substantially. Mum still likes to be involved at mealtime, but can be more of a distraction than a help.

We've re-arranged the house twice over the weekend to give the puppies more room. They now have 2 large cages either end of one wall, with a 6' x 4' run in the middle.

Keeping track of where the puppies have gone is another challenge, behind furniture, curtains, computers etc. and when the time is right they fall asleep wherever they stop.

Baileys is great with her babies and Brandy stays well out of their way but Blue the cat has yet to decide how he'll deal with the pups. Most of the time he is fine, very tolerant and curious, but on Sunday morning a posse of pups had him backed up under a chair and eventually he came out fighting. Puppies scattered in all directions as he let them know who was boss...

this evening

From newgale - var...

A very fine sunset at newgale this evening. The above picture is as it was taken from the camera, no touching up or tweaking the colours. The Easter rush has passed and it was good to catch up with familiar faces in the pub.

The puppies are getting more like scaled down versions of proper dogs by the day. Great fun. They're getting much bigger too. need to add more pictures to the puppy albums...

Happy Easter

Mum and pups doing well. Their eyes are open and they're getting quicker... I'd say they are walking but it's more of a drunken stumble. A definite improvement on the turtle waddle though.

Its surprising how that now they've opened their eyes they look like "real puppies". The cream ones are mini andrex puppies, and the black ones are equally stunning.

Anyone with any tips on photographing black dogs??? They see to always disappear into the background. Of all the pictures we've taken, very few show how shiny and wavy the black dogs coats are.

A beautiful weekend. The roads are busy and the beaches are full. It looks as if the tourist season is off to a flyer. A shame the surf hasn't been better, but there were a few clean little ones yesterday morning.

The next stage to look forward to is weaning the pups off mum and onto food. I understand this is going to be messy!!! All good fun.

do you think they're growing??

What a difference 12 days makes...

The picture on the top was the first pup out, the picture on the bottom, one of the litter taken 12 days later. All the pups are growing well and should be opening their eyes in the next day or so. Their personalities are just starting to emerge. Some are more vocal than others, some sleep more, some wander off on their own.

Just when you think you've got some ideas what their coats will be like, they change, although one of the black girls seems to have tight curls...

hard work this..

All seems well with the pups, they are all putting on weight and it seem that Baileys has enough milk coming through to fill them up and get them to sleep. She the has a bit of time to herself for a bit of fuss and a break from the nippers.

There are a few more pics in the gallery - click on the image below:-

Time to get ready for work.

baileys babies

The dust is starting to settle

Adele gets the prize for the best pic of the first few days... Baileys is a very proud mother and isn't happy leaving the puppies for a minute. It's wonderful to see nature at work, Baileys first litter and seems to know what to do in any situation. Nature does have a sense of humour too though, by making us worry unrealistically over the mum and pups - losing plenty of sleep as a result.

Blue, our cat, is unimpressed. Baileys and him got on well before the pups arrived, now Baileys won't let him within arms length of the puppies.

Coffee consumption has gone through the roof and the tv has hardly been on. It looks like its been the nicest weekend weather-wise this year and we've barely left the house. At the same time we wouldn't change it for anything..

There are more photos linked to the website www.pembrokeshire-doodles.co.uk , and the webcam is up and running, but won't be left on all all of the time. It's on the website but cunningly hidden - happy hunting.

It's happened! They're here!!

A snap of the first one out. A baby boy. He arrived at 13:10 this afternoon, followed by 10 brothers and sisters (brothers mostly). Fair play to Baileys, she did it all pretty much for us. The first one brought a tear to the eye and made Baileys wince, and the last one was the biggest of the lot and didn't want to come out.

All the pups seem to be doing well, pretty lively and feeding, but its early days..

Will look to get some pictures together for a photo album. The snaps from today are a bit messy, so we'll give Baileys her dignity and take some more once she's cleaned up.

A very draining 12 hours. I've got the short straw and am keeping an eye on things whilst Adele gets some rest. Lots to do tomorrow - it will be difficult not to get sucked into puppy watching and not let them out of our sight.

Thanks to all who have helped so far, Tanya (a pity one didn't arrive whilst you were here!), Lisa, Fenton Vets and Gemma to name but a few.

Oh well Kizzi, your turn next...

Any time soon...

Have to feel for Baileys at the moment. She really doesn't know what to do with herself. Over the weekend we thought it was all happening (a few days early and before the supplies which were on order arrived - naturally!). Things have calmed down since then, but she's off her food, fairly restless but just gets up walks around in circles for a while and lies back down again..

The wild and wooly weather of the weekend has eased off so she's out in the garden enjoying the sunshine.

The latest project is to get a webcam up and running. At the moment we can watch what's happening downstairs from upstairs. Hopefully by the time the pups arrive we should have puppycam on the website - will see.

The waiting is draining.. come on girl, you can do it!!!

Fun, fun...

All starting to liven up with Baileys now. We're not quite sure when the puppies are due, probably from next week onwards, but there are definite changes with her. Her belly has got puppies moving around in it, she has started producing a bit of milk, and more bizarrely she has started to dig herself in, under a bush in the garden.

Now we're expecting her to start nesting, but not really in the garden. Something we'll have to keep an eye on, especially towards the end of her pregnancy.

It's a real pity she hasn't chosen the bits that need digging over. That veggie patch that Adele wanted could be half dug by now...

A quick "hello" to Annie and Kizzi. They are in the same boat - Kizzi is a beautiful Chocolate Labrador who was at stud at the same time as Baileys. So, anyone looking for labradoodles give a shout and we'll put you in touch with Annie.

Walkies..

Broad Haven at the weekend. A nice day and a short walk to keep Baileys moving. The extra weight is taking its toll, she was happy to walk along with us, no need for a ball to chase, she wasn't even particularly keen to play with other dogs...

There were 2 beautiful poodles at the beach, one black, one white, full coats and looking good.

Crufts...

Saw it on the tv last night, and depending on how things go, we might be up there on the weekend. A few days of mayhem, and a chance for the owners to show their pride and joy to the world.

The technicalities of judging are lost on me. All of the dogs are stunningly presented, although some of the breeds beg the question "why?".

If we do make it there, it will be my first visit, and it looks like it will be a very long day...

Getting bigger...

Baileys showing off her belly and parenting skills, although carrying pups by the leg probably isn't the way to go... Her belly was clipped at the vets so that they could use the ultrasound machine to check that the mother and pups were doing OK. It will also make things much easier when the pups are born - any ladies out there with hairy chests, please take note!

Around 3 weeks to go, and all seems to be going well. Baileys is happy enough, especially now she has been allowed on the bed in the mornings. It's surprising how bad her hearing becomes when she is lying down on the duvet - almost impossible to get a response from her at times...

Summer sunset at Newgale..

Sorting through more photos on the computer and though that a warming picture of the local beach with the sun going down might be just the tonic.

What was an unsurfaced carpark with a great view is now tarmac-ed and lined and will soon cost a few pounds a day to park in. Progress.

Still, a great beach any time of the year and I'll shortly put together a set of pictures of just Newgale.

More pictures of Baileys

So the weather is awful and I'm full of cold, so have been going through some photos and have put them here:- (click on the picture for the full set...)

Baileys

As you can see, she isn't camera shy... We just know that some of her cuteness will follow in her pups. Only around 3 weeks before they arrive and chaos breaks out in the house. Baileys seems to be doing fine, although carrying her belly around is slowing her down and she's developed a bit of a waddle...

Another happy snap of Baileys, taken at Freshwater West. We are now looking for potential owners for her puppies. For further details please contact doodles@baileysandblue.co.uk .

No matter which beach we go to, Baileys has to get wet. Normally we take a "flinger" along to throw a tennis ball for her, but even without this she will head to the sea and park herself in the water.

Any rockpools have to be investigated and if they are deep enough, sat in. Fortunately the van is set up for soggy dogs, with towels to dry her and fresh water for her to drink...

And now the fun begins...

This is Baileys, the confused mum-to-be. This picture was taken last weekend on a walk at Llys-y-fran reservoir.

Her belly has got loads bigger, and following the trip to the vets, her belly has been clipped.

Panic has ensued, making lists of everything that needs to be got, done, sorted and fixed before any pups arrive.

Added to the fun, there's the 6 nations coming up, so its to the pub to watch (hopefully) Ireland beat England and Wales take France... Reckon I'd get pretty long odds on that bet but we live in hope (and nostalgia) in Wales!

Its confirmed!

Just back from the vet. Seen the scan, little pockets that hold the puppies...

Everyone delighted!