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Lilpoodles
PO Box 232
Pinckneyville, Illinois
Phone 618-713-7923
Cyndi@lilpoodles.com
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Cyndi, the owner of Lilpoodles.com, poses with her four children Lexi, Haley,
Kelsi and Noah -- and her puppies, PeeWee, Rusty, Sadie, Koda, ToTo, Daisy,
BlackTop, and Peaches.
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Cyndi, the owner of Lilpoodles.com, has 8 years experience raising and selling puppies. Her love for animals coupled with her strong desire to provide a caring environment for the birth and early development of the beloved pups in her care has been a driving force in making Lilpoodles.com such an amazing success.
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If you’re looking for an adorable toy, tiny toy, or teacup poodle -- you’ve come to the right place. Lilpoodles.com strives to provide the best poodle puppies possible, and in doing so, we take no short-cuts. We consistently go the extra mile even if it takes a little more time or costs a little more money, to insure that all of our puppies are healthy, happy, and placed in loving homes.
Prior to giving birth, our puppy moms are under regular veterinary care and monitored by a sophisticated ultrasound fetal heart rate Doppler that we have been trained to use. The fetal heart rate Doppler confirms pregnancy and monitors the well-being of developing puppies. If an unborn puppy is undergoing stress, we are able to intervene quickly with either the appropriate medication or a caesarean section before the puppy is lost.
When puppies are born, they are kept in our sterile, laboratory like maternity ward for puppies. The mom and puppies are kept in hospital quality incubators for the first three weeks of their little lives. This helps them get off to a healthy and comfortable life in a controlled atmosphere that is warm, draft free, cozy, and secure. Puppies do not develop their shivering reflex until about the third week of their lives, so it is hard to tell if they’re cold. Our puppy incubators solve the problem.
After birth, we begin the human bonding process and socialization protocol at about the second to third week -- depending on how strong, alert, and active the puppies are. We like to begin bonding as soon as they open their eyes. They are greeted several times a day with soft and gentle human voices, and they are cradled in our arms, while laying on their backs. In this position of submission, we gently rub their little puppy tummies so they can begin to build trust towards humans. It is important that a lot of time be spent with puppies at this important developmental time of their lives, so they can learn to feel secure with humans.
Most teacup poodle breeders agree that a Teacup Poodle will have a maximum weight of 4-pounds and maximum height of 8 inches tall. We use an extremely accurate (and expensive!) digital scale to verify our puppies weight from their birth until the time we place them in their adoptive homes. Correct height measurements are taken from the floor to the top of the little ridge between their shoulder blades. Technically, that area is called the “withers.” Our pups are charted every week on their height and weight. Predicting a puppy’s exact height and weight as an adult, is not an exact science, but we make an earnest attempt to use precise height and weight measurements that are predictive indicators of future size.
Many, many breeders are too casual in this important area, and can only provide guesstimates based on low-cost, inaccurate baby scales like you’d get at Wal-mart that don’t provide the fractional increments needed for weighing Teacup Poodles. For height measurements, many breeders simply use a ruler and visually guesstimate the height. To accurately measure the height of our puppies, we use a commercial angle-square to provide precise measurements. Our purpose in mentioning all of this is not to criticize the way others operate -- but rather to inform you that we do things differently, and we think better in these important areas.
Our puppies are raised in a loving home environment and in our 30’ x 50’ area we call our puppy playhouse. It is a dedicated space that is well lit and comfortable. All of our poodles live pampered lives with lots of daily playtime, exercise, excellent whole-food nutrition, and human interaction and supervison.
Raising children is my life. I have two families -- my real children and my puppy children. We’re just one big happy family. This is what I do to earn a living, and I love what I do. You’ve probably heard that old saying, “If you do what you love, you’ll never work another day in your life.” Well... I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say that raising 8-10 puppies at a time isn’t work, but I will say it is a lot of fun, very rewarding, and a labor of love for me.
I was raised to believe that when you get married and have children, it all lasts forever and you live happily ever after. When life turned in a direction I hadn’t envisioned, I found myself to be a single mom with a 15-year old step-daughter, an 11-year old daughter, an 8-year old daughter, and a 5-year old son, and no job! I decided that the best way for me to keep my family together and to be “at home” as much as possible, was to sell more of my little puppies. You might say it was my way of turning the lemons that life gave me... into lemonade.
Lilpoodles.com has enabled me to reach a lot of my goals in life, and have a lot of fun helping a lot of nice people find the perfect puppy. I feel very lucky to have had such a good opportunity come along, and I look forward to working with you.
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Lilpoodles
PO Box 232
Pinckneyville, Illinois
Phone 618-357-8020
Cyndi@lilpoodles.com
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