Peppy the poodle

This is Butterscotch's dad, Peppy. Buddy looks heaps more like his dad than his mum.

Annie told us that Peppy and Peggy's pups are usually about 8 kg when fully grown, although sometimes one ends up a little smaller. Annie wondered if the smaller pups could mean that Peppy might have some toy poodle in his background somewhere.

When we picked up Buddy at the airport, his sister Lucy was also being picked up. She was very much smaller than Buddy, and very sweet too. She obviously takes after the poodle side of the family.

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.