Our Puppies

Our puppies are handled frequently from birth so they quickly become acclimated to the smell & touch of humans.

We add early neural stimulation into our program day 3 through day 16 to help acclimate our puppies to small stresses. Our puppies are continually exposed to an environment of soothing music from late gestation until 3 weeks age.

At 3 weeks age, the puppies are introduced to noises such as thunderstorms at very low but slowly increasing levels so that by 4 weeks age the puppies are accustomed to full-blown thunderstorms with lightning strikes. At this age the puppies are allowed to leave the whelping pen & play in new controlled environments together.

At 4 weeks age, small physical challenges are incorporated into the group playtime such as tunnels, small obstacles, mazes, etc. to help the puppies gain confidence & life experiences. At this time our puppies are also introduced to other small animals in order to boost their social skills and manners around small family pets.

By 5 weeks age, we begin to introduce and acclimate the puppies to city traffic, gunfire, barking, trains, sirens, pots & pans, etc.

At 6 weeks age, we begin daily individual training sessions with each of our puppies, in which we use positive reward clicker training for teaching basic "look", "sit" & "down" on a training table.

By 8 weeks age, the puppies are comfortable with many different historically troublesome noises. Our adaptable, confident & social puppies are now ready to go to their new homes. Redbush puppies are both highly motivated & capable of succeeding in dog sport, search & rescue, drug/explosive detection, police work, medical assistance and family defense.