Puppy Care
​Welcome Your New Puppy Home with Confidence
Puppy Care: Essential Tips
To ensure a seamless and joyful transition for both you and your puppy, prepare your home and refresh your puppy care skills. Our resource page is designed to support you every step of the way.
Our puppies are generally easy-going, but keep these key guidelines in mind:​ ​​
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Balance exercise and rest: Provide regular physical activity, but don't overdo it in the first few months.
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Socialize frequently: Help your puppy interact with people, places, and experiences.
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Prioritize rest: Schedule daily naps to ensure your puppy gets plenty of sleep.
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To avoid physical stress, Limit stair climbing and standing on concrete surfaces for long periods of time during the formative years.​
By following these simple tips, you'll set your puppy up for a happy, healthy start in life.
Puppy Nutrition
Our Favorite Dog Food
We highly recommend Life's Abundance for your Puppy's nutritional needs. We've tried most of the high-quality dog food companies on the market, and we can confidently say this is the best we've found. Once we switched our parent dogs and puppies over to Lifes's Abundance we quickly noticed healthier coats and our older overweight dogs slimed down and looked years younger.
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Life's Abundance stands out for its organic preservative-free formula. This conscious choice avoids common gastrointestinal issues linked to preservatives in other dog food. We hope you will continue feeding this premium All Life Stages Dog Food to your puppy. At first glance, it might seem expensive but it's not like your typical food with fillers and artificial preservatives. You will notice that your dog actually eats less of it because it is so nutrient-dense. Health starts with nutrition so this a great way to invest in the wellness of your pup
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Life's Abundance operates on a direct-to-consumer model, with batch-fresh products shipped right to your door.

How Much Should I Feed My Puppy?
When you come to J+A Family Doodles Farm to pick up your Goldendoodle puppy, we will provide you with a puppy starter pack that includes a small bag of Life's Abundance food, which should be sufficient for a few days. We find that puppies won't eat a lot the first few days as they transition to life in their new home. Don't be alarmed they are just dealing with the stress of being in a new place. You will often find that they drink ungodly amounts of water, this is also normal and will subside after the first few days.
We suggest you feed your puppy 1/2 cup of Life's Abundance 2 to 3 times a day. It is important not to overfeed as it can be a leading cause of digestive issues for puppies. A 40 lb bag of Life's Abundance should last you about 12 weeks with your puppy eating a 1/2 cup 3 times a day. Please purchase food before you bring your Goldendoodle home for a seamless transition. Leave 2-3 days for Life's Abundance to the shipped to your door.
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If you choose to go with a different food for your Goldendoodle start mixing in 1 part new food with 3 parts Life's Abundance. Remember, puppies have delicate stomachs and are experiencing significant changes so to minimize stress gradually increase the portion of new food over the course of 2 weeks.
Puppy Vitamins
Our Favorite Vitamins
This is the number one thing we recommend to any dog owner! You wouldn't believe the difference we have seen in our dogs since we started with NuVet. These supplements are given to each of our puppies as they are weaned from their mother. Puppies' immune systems are vulnerable. We encourage folks to keep their puppy on this supplement for optimal health. Our dogs love them and we keep them on them for their lifespan. To order the vitamins that we use at J + A Family Doodles
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Why We Choose NuVet Plus?
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On the forefront of pet health since 1997
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Manufactured in a U.S. human pharmaceutical FDA-registered laboratory
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Natural, human-grade ingredients
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Strict adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
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Loaded with antioxidants, amino acids, herbs, vitamins, minerals, and more
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Cold-processed using a patented paddle-drying process to retain the rich nutrients found in each ingredient
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Safe for dogs and cats of all ages, including pregnant females

Use order code 91207
Recommended Puppy Products
Check out the links below for our favorite products available on Amazon. With so many options it can be overwhelming! Please use these as a starting point and let me know if you find anything you love!
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Please note that Goldendoodles will need grooming products specific to cleaning their ears and brushing their coats. Nails can be clipped by their groomer and/or vet. We find with puppies we need to clip them more often than those visits but if you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself you can always bring them into the vet.