Why Purchase a Redcypher Puppy

At Redcypher, we are dedicated to producing Labrador Retrievers with sound temperaments, proven working ability, and excellent health. Every litter is purposefully planned, raised with intention, and developed through a program designed to give each puppy the strongest start to life.

Purposeful, Ethical Breeding

Planned Matings With Proven Dogs

We carefully select all breeding pairs to ensure outstanding temperament, strong genetic stability, and high-quality health scores. Only dogs who have demonstrated sound behaviour, both at home and in external environments, are chosen for our program.

Behaviourally Tested Parents

Before any dog is bred, they undergo behavioural assessment outside their home environment. This ensures we are consistently producing confident, balanced, and biddable Labrador Retrievers—giving you the very best representation of the breed.

PUPPIES

A Structured Raising Program From Day One

Daily Handling & Monitoring

From birth, all puppies are weighed, handled, and closely monitored to ensure healthy growth and early human bonding.

ENS & ESI (Day 3–16)

Each puppy completes Early Neurological

Stimulation (ENS) and Early Scent Introduction (ESI) to support:

Stronger stress tolerance
Enhanced scenting ability
Better recovery from novel situations
Increased adaptability and resilience

Confidence & Environmental Exposure

Once ENS and ESI are completed, puppies begin a structured exposure curriculum including:

New surfaces and textures
Controlled noises
Interaction with animals
Environmental novelty
Confidence-building tasks

This foundation creates well-rounded, environmentally stable individuals ready for sport, work, or companionship.

Temperament Testing & Matching

Understanding Each Puppy From the Start

We temperament test every puppy at 4, 6, and 7.5 weeks. These assessments reveal each pup’s:

Natural temperament and tendencies
Confidence and resilience
Working style and drive
Sensory responses
Handler sensitivity and engagement

The Value of Multiple Tests

Behaviour evolves rapidly in early life. Testing at three developmental milestones allows us to map consistency, observe change, and confidently match each puppy to the most suitable home or working pathway.

Your Puppy Enquiry Form Matters

When you complete your enquiry form, please share as much detail as possible about the personality, lifestyle, and goals you have. We use this information—along with test results—to ensure the best possible match.

Your Role Once Your Puppy Comes Home

Our early development is only the beginning. What you do next continues shaping your puppy into the adult they will become.

Safe Socialisation & Exposure

Continue exposing your puppy to:

Different people and ages
Various uniforms and equipment
New surfaces
New environments
Controlled noises
Everyday life situations

Always prioritise safe, positive experiences.

Positive, Engaging Training

Your puppy arrives as a blank canvas. Use:

Reward-based learning
Clear boundaries
Calm, confident handling
Consistency

Avoid harshness or over-dominance, your puppy is not doing anything “wrong” on purpose. They communicate primarily through body language and rely on you to teach them the right behaviours.

Set Up for Success

Prepare your home as if bringing in a newborn:

Baby gates or pens
Crate training
Toilet training after meals, sleep, and play
Enrichment and age-appropriate play
Plenty of rest (puppies need lots of sleep!)

Who you build now is the dog you will live with forever.

Understanding the Breed’s Needs

While our dogs make exceptional companions, they are first and foremost working-bred Labrador Retrievers with natural drives and desires. When fulfilled through training, enrichment, and engagement, they are incredible family members. Without structure, they will challenge you—because they are bred to think, problem-solve, and work.

We support our puppy buyers every step of the way to ensure your Redcypher Labrador grows into the confident, capable, loving companion you envisioned.

TRAINING YOUR PUPPY
HOW & WHY

Obedience training is a simple way to build structure and clear communication with your dog. By learning and responding to cues, your dog shows understanding and trust in you.

Nearly all behavioral problems are perfectly normal canine activities that occur at the wrong place or time or are directed at the wrong thing. For example, your dog will defecate on the carpet, bark all night for no reason or chew furniture. The key to preventing dislikeable behavior is to learn and teach your dog to redirect its natural behavior in acceptable ways in domestic settings.

Obedience training provides a fundamental framework and structure for your puppy's understanding of how to act or react in a variety of situations, like teaching children good manners and behave around other people including animals.

If you feel like you need help, do not hesitate to enrol your dog in an obedience class to learn the basics. However, it is best to begin training in a familiar area for your dog and with the least amount of distraction possible. Once your dog becomes responsive to commands at home, try them in a different area. Progressively introducing distractions will eventually make your dog responsive in any context. When you choose a word for an order, stick to it. Do not say ‘No stop that’ and ‘Get off’ for the same order, as it doesn’t make any sense to your dog. Those are three different orders. Just simply use one word “NO”

Keep the obedience training sessions short and always end on a positive note. Try and integrate training into your daily routine, such as when you feed your dog.

TRAINING YOUR PUPPY

THE BASICS

REWARDS & REPRIMANDS

It is extremely important to reward your dog every time it responds to an order. You must set up situations repeatedly for it to learn. It is very easy to forget to praise your dog’s good behaviour, as it is less noticeable than bad behaviour. However, you must praise each and every piece of good behaviour from your dog. If you only punish them when they do something bad and do not remember to praise them every time they listen to you, you will thoroughly confuse your dog. Reprimands are important, but praising for good behaviour is more important still.

PUPPY EXERCISE

Your puppy should not do too much exercise as its bones are still developing until around 1 year of age, so do not take them on long walks until they are well over 6 months old. Too much exercise can lead to health problems later on in life such as hip dysplasia. A puppy will get all the exercise it needs playing in the house or garden. When out with your puppy, prefer soft surfaces such as grass rather than hard surfaces such as concrete. This is much better for their developing joints.

SOCIALISATION

DO'S

• Invite friends to meet your dog and encourage your puppy to play with them.

• Bring your dog to parks, playgrounds, and other places with lots of people and plenty of activity. Start with a lead.

• Take your dog on short, frequent rides in the car. Again, some dogs, like people, are carsick and nothing can be done about it (veterinarians can prescribe anti vomiting tablets if you are going on a long trip). Never reprimand your dog for vomiting in the car, it is not the dog’s fault!

• Introduce your puppy to different sounds. Loud noises should be introduced at a distance and gradually brought closer.

• Be kind to your vet and accustom your puppy to being put on a table, brushed, bathed, inspected, having their nails clipped, mouth opened, ears cleaned, paws picked up, etc.

DONT'S

• Don’t put your puppy on the ground where unknown animals have access until fully vaccinated.

• Don’t let your dog socialise with animals that appear sick or if you don’t know them.

• Do not reward fearful behavior. Let your dog get used to things by acting calm yourself.

• Do not allow experiences to be harmful, painful or excessively frightening.

• Do not rush your puppy.

• Do not overdo it. Young puppies need a lot of sleep and tire very quickly. Older dogs may panic if they take in too much at the same time. Take things slowly and calmly.

HOUSETRAINING

• Provide constant access to a toilet area. In the beginning, your puppy will not know what it is for. It will eliminate anywhere and everywhere. Every time you see it eliminating, immediately pick it up and put it down outside in the toilet area. If you do not catch your puppy in the act but find urine or faeces on the floor. Just pick your pup up, and put it into the toilet area. Let go of the puppy and walk away. Watch puppy and encourage it to go to the toilet, I use a "que" word!

• Every time you see your puppy eliminating in the toilet area, wait until they finish, then praise it by saying whatever word you have chosen as the 'praise' (remember, you will confuse your dog if you have more than one praise). It is not necessary to give a treat every time it eliminates in the right place as this may lead to bad habits.

• When going out, if you are leaving your puppy, it is best to confine it to an area that is covered with papers or whatever your choosing so that it can only eliminate in an area that looks like the normal toilet area.

• Feed your puppy at regular times.

• Encourage your puppy to sleep in the same place. Every time your puppy lies down to sleep, coax it to the designated sleeping (crate, bed, or basket) area and stay with them, stroke them until they settle down and feel comfortable. Using a crate as a designated sleeping area is very useful if you will have to put your dog in a crate at some point in its life.

Confine them for gradually longer periods of time when you are at home in order to be able to leave it for longer periods alone if necessary in the future.

• Provide your puppy with a variety of toys to chew. Puppy teeth change between 4 and 6 months of age and can be very sore so expect a lot of chewing particularly around that age. In adult dogs, chewing is a form of occupational therapy to relieve stress and release energy. If your dog gets anxious or if you do not come home until late, they may start chewing everything in the house. It is pointless to punish this behaviour as it may just make your dog more anxious. Just spend time with your puppy playing with its toys, showing them that these are the designated things to chew and repeating the praise for good behaviour whilst playing. Praise your puppy every time you see it playing with their toys by itself. If you catch your puppy chewing on something it shouldn’t be, say ‘No’ and replace the object with one of their toys, using the praise word as soon as its starts playing with the toy.

• Be patient! Getting frustrated and angry will only confuse and scare your puppy.

DON'T

• Don’t leave food out all day and night for your puppy to eat at whim. Have set feeding times, and if the food isn’t finished after 15 minutes, take it away. Your puppy will understand this very quickly, and finish the food if it's hungry.

• Don’t allow your puppy to eliminate anywhere other than the toilet area.

• Don’t give your puppy free unattended run of the house. You are the dominant dog in the house. You tell it where it can and cannot go.

• Don’t let your puppy get used to lingering around the kitchen when you are preparing food! This will encourage them to become a thief and beg. Say ‘No’ or ‘out’ or whatever order you have associated with the dog moving away from you. Point to where you want it to go, and accompany it to the place you want it stay. If they try to follow you back in, stop, say ‘No’ firmly and walk on. Repeat this until your puppy stops following you into the kitchen.

• Don’t leave rubbish, shoes or any valuables lying around the house in reach of your puppy. Leave toys in reach and in plain view instead. Keep doors closed.

TRAINING SCHEDULE

It is very important that you have one order for each action, and that you have a word to end an order. That is to say, when you tell your dog to sit, and praise them for sitting, you need to choose a word like ‘OK, its over’ or just ‘OK’ to signal the end of every order. This is of utmost importance especially for orders like ‘Stay’, ‘Heel’ and ‘Sit’. This is because as soon as you give an order, the latter must be carried out by both you and the dog until you say the end-word signalling that the order has been carried out to the end.