First day at home (part 2.)

Before they went to school the kids took some old socks that they had been wearing and stuffed a small teddy into each one. We put these in Buddy's bed so that he would feel snug, like he did sleeping surrounded by his mum and littermates. He would also get used to the smells of our family.

This seemed to work, and he didn't wake us up at all the first night. He didn't really wake us during the night with crying at all. The first few nights he was a bit fretful when we put him to bed, and he took a while to settle. But once he got to sleep he stayed in his bed until about 6am.

The pick of the litter

Butterscotch is one month old in this photo. He has that look on his face like he is just about to speak ...

You can see he is a really robust and healthy little guy. He is slightly bigger than his siblings, but Annie told us that they usually all grow to about the same size as adult, around 8 kg although Buddy might be slightly bigger.

The cavoodles are a great sized dog for our family. They aren't so small that they would get trampled on by our very active kids, and they aren't too big either.

Big dogs make bigger messes, I remember the Labrador and the Alsatians that our family had when I was a kid, they were much harder work to take care of.

Butterscotch's first photo

14th January 2007

One day old Butterscotch with his siblings Jack, Toby and Lucy. Butterscotch, or Buddy for short, is the one on the left of the photo with the cute white stripe.

Buddy was a bit bigger than the others at first, but Annie the breeder told us that usually they grow to roughly the same size. Most of them will be around 8 kg as adults.