While there are many fanatic Poodle & Golden Retriever breeders and owners out there who put down any type of hybrids, the truth of the matter is that the Goldendoodle is the BEST KEPT SECRET FOR A FAMILY PET! This wonderful hybrid is the best mix anyone could have ever asked for and to this day, their popularity continues to increase. Perhaps it is out of fear that the lovely Goldendoodle will take over and out-rank the Golden Retriever when all is said and done.
Although the Goldendoodle is very adorable, cute, playful and silly....
The Goldendoodle is a first hybrid crossing between a Golden Retriever and a Standard Poodle. This hybrid was first created in Australia. The Goldendoodle hybrid has only been in the United States since 1997. The entire reason for this creation was to provide those who were physically challenged, a service dog that had extremely low shedding. Such a canine was needed for those who needed an assistant dog but had allergies that prevented them from being able to own one. Although there is some debate as to whether the Labradoodle or the Goldendoodle was created first, it really doesn't matter.
With some extensive searching over the internet, there are some nice websites based in Australia regarding both hybrids. Naysayers can be enraged and fuss all they want about hybrids...... the fact is...THE GOLDENDOODLE AND THE LABRADOODLE and any other Poodle hybrid, IS HERE TO STAY!!! As of Aug. 2006...there are some who are writing books with regards to the Goldendoodle. Remember you read the facts here first! We are actually one of the original Goldendoodle creators in the United States.
There will be many who argue that hybrids are "NOTHING BUT MUTTS" who fill up animal shelters annually. The facts are, EVERY PUREBRED DOG OF TODAY started out as a MIXED BREED DOG and there are just as many purebred dogs in shelters as there are mixed or hybrid dogs. Other than the Maltese, every dog in existence began as a mixed breed dog with plenty of inbreeding, back-breeding and line-breeding. After many, many years of refinement by breeders, over time.... kennel clubs were formed by groups of people who favored a selected breed of dog....advertised and sold the particular breed to the point that eventually caught the attention of the American Kennel Club. The American Kennel Club is all about money and is NOT the first Kennel Club to have ever began. They are more highly recognized because they have millions of dollars to advertise themselves. Every show that is placed on television and every show breeder who wins, has been paid for by YOU.....the dog owner who just had to have an AKC registered dog because you bought into the notion that AKC produces quality dogs. NOT SO! They don't produce anything. The breeders produce the dogs.
The only thing AKC produces is pedigree (background) infomation. The very first Kennel Club was formed in 1873 and was called "KENNEL CLUB"...ie...KC. This club was formed in England. To unify different methods of classifying dog breeds, an international organization called "FCI...INTERNATIONAL CYNOLOGICAL FEDERATION was formed.While the FCI recognizes many breeds not recognized by KC or AKC. There are kennel clubs that do recognize rare breeds or different breeds to include hybrids and they are CKC, ARBA , UKC and UKCI. The real truth behind the American Kennel Club is that their organization DID NOT come up with standards for the dogs they recognize in their club. They adopted standards created by the kennel clubs that were formed and they tweaked and refined the standards to fit their own shoes. The American Kennel Club is not stupid where money is concerned. As soon as a particular dog looks promising and rises so high in popularity where they see the dollar signs for their own club, they jump on the band wagon and "recognize" a breed and allow it into their kennel club. SOME CLUBS do NOT desire their breeds to be recognized by AKC and they DO NOT PARTICIPATE with AKC. Perhaps AKC loves to believe they created everything in the beginning of time, but the fact is, they DID NOT. The millions of dollars pouring into their kennel club annually comes from the General Public who are not well educated about other wonderful Kennel Clubs available WORDWIDE and who believe that AKC sets the standards for canine in general, when in fact, they do not. AKC laughs all the way to the bank! Show breeders who compete and win the AKC dog show competitions can thank each and every single person who purchased an AKC registered puppy from a breeder who participates with the American Kennel Club. Their thousand dollar prizes come from AKC who take in millions of dollars annually from people who believe that only an AKC registered puppy or dog is a canine worthy or purchasing. This is a sad trap that millions of people fall into and AKC is only too happy to oblige.
Let's review......a Goldendoodle is a hybrid. It is a crossing between a Standard Poodle and a Golden Retriever. So, now you say....."I've heard there are Miniature Goldendoodles and Labradoodles...is this true?" While it is true there can be SMALLER Goldendoodles and Labradoodles created, hybrids do not fall into size categories like that of purebred dogs. The reason for this is because hybrids can vary in size within any given litter while most purebred dogs are consistant in their sizes within the litters. Siblings who come from purebred litters are very close in size while siblings in hybrid litters can widely vary in size. The reason for this is because hybrid dogs pick up their genes within their entire lineage whereas purebred dogs mostly pick up their genes from both parents. Most likely this comes about because purebred dogs have parents who are the same breed and hybrids come from different breed types. When breeders of hybrids use terms such as "Miniature" or "Toy" or "standard", it is the breeder's term and not the term associated with any Kennel Club. Hybrids have not been assigned any size category by any kennel club to date. Those who create Multi-generation doodles or back-breed or inbreed to create a Goldendoodle have a very small genetic pool of which the breeder can pull from, hence risking the possibility of genetic ailments and flaws. Multi-generation doodle breeders and some breeders who breed a Poodle to a Goldendoodle are making claims of less shedding and hypo-allergenic when there is no scientific evidence to prove such claims. Some breeders claim because they have doubled the Poodle genes, their hybrid pup is now a "Hypo-allergenic" dog. There is no such thing as a hypo-allergenic animal on the face of this planet. All dogs have dander and all dogs shed. That is a fact of life. Some just shed differently than others. You can reduce the amount of dander by purchasing some very good products on the market, like "Pro Derma V" ...but there are many items on the market that can help with this problem. Poodle hybrids have little dander and the least amount of shedding than any other type of dog.
Genetics are complicated but there are thousands of links on the internet to help you understand the basics in canine genetics. COLORATION of a Goldendoodle can be varied. Why is this? Because you have to remember that the Poodle is one of the parents to your doodle. The Poodle has many, many varieties of colors within their gene scope. When breeding a Poodle to a Golden Retriever or even another Poodle, all colors are possible. It all depends upon which gene is the strongest with each individual puppy during its fetal stage. We have produced every color possible for a Goldendoodle and of all sizes since 1999. We are able to relish in consistent temperaments with our doodles over 25 pounds, because our Standard Poodles share common ancestors within their lineage. Some are sisters; some are brothers; We have one whose grandfather is the other one's father and so on. None are in-bred, backbred or line-bred. Poodles have many common ancestors regardless of what country they originally come from because breeders all over the world shipped the semen of their Sires to breed with other Poodles or they even shipped their dogs all around the world for breeding to continue possible Championship genes. It is amazing to go back over 12 generations of Poodles and see the same names of Champion dogs over and over again even though they lived in different countries!!!! With our own Poodles, we were able to go back as far as 1958 through AKC's registry...however....we finally discovered some information about some of the ancestry in our Poodles' lineage going back to the 1930s via the internet. CLICK HERE to read about WYCLIFFE Poodles and how they started. Also, EATON AFFIRMED, a male standard Poodle who is in our Poodles' distant lineage, has the greatest influence in the past 20 years of all Poodles worldwide. "SNAPPER" sired 110 AKC Champions and a number of others in Canada and elsewhere...with his offspring most likely producing further champions and so on. He was a top producer during his life, handsome and charming. We also have DASSIN lineage in our Poodles, as well. Bel Tor is another common name within the lineage of our Poodles. Our poodles' ancestors came from some of the best known kennel clubs and respected breeders across the globe.
Our Poodles have over 400 OFA Good, Champion ancestors within their lineage. Our Goldendoodles come in every imaginable color to include parti-colors and tri-colors. The most common and desired color in a doodle is apricot. Possibly because of their name "Golden Doodle". This apricot coloration is not like the coloration of an apricot Poodle.....it is richer in color. Sort of like the lightest color in a Golden Retriever. While it is the most popular, but we enjoy seeing our doodles of color and enjoy seeing colors that are unique and different....such as our doodles with green or blue eyes or unusual markings. Let those "Naysayers" gripe all they want with regards to hybrids and mixed-breed dogs or "designer dogs" as they so love to call them....the fact of the matter is that hybrids and cross-bred dogs are much hardier, healthier dogs than their purebred counter parts and they are growing in popularity whether purebred fanatics like it or not. We are very glad to see more people wanting hybrids and mixed-breed dogs than purebred dogs, because frankly speaking...we think the PUREBRED dog is OVER-RATED!
Of course, in order to have quality Goldendoodles, a breeder must own quality purebred dogs....so, you can't rule out the purebred dog entirely! It is very important that any breeder who desires to achieve a very sound litter, research their breeding dogs' pedigrees extensively like we have done We do believe that if you are not lucky enough (like ourselves) to own many generations of your own mature breeding dogs .....to have the necessary testing done, just for your own dogs' sake. Many people believe that by testing the breeding dogs, they will never have offspring with any genetic problems. This is complete fallacy. Testing a breeding dog is not a 100% guaranteed way of saying that their offspring will never be unaffected by genetic or non-genetic diseases. While its a noble thing for a breeder to want to have their breeding dogs free of genetic issues and rid the possibility of genetic ailments in their created puppies, unless there are genetic "markers" to validate 100% whether a dog is a "carrier" of defective genes, breeders can not give a customer a 100% guarantee that a puppy purchased will be 100% free from ever getting a genetic illness or disease at some point in its life. CLICK HERE to read more on genetics and other canine issues. Many ailments in dogs can occur later in life just as it does in humans. Because genetic ailments in tested dogs can occur just as randomly as with non-tested dogs, we completely believe in DNA testing to rule out whether an ailment is definitely genetic or not. Because many vets tell their clients that their dogs' issue is "genetic", we encourage every single puppy buyer to have their vet submit a DNA sample swab to VETGEN for storage. Vetgen can store DNA for up to ten years. Should a health issue come up that a vet has claimed is genetic in nature, the DNA of the buyers' dog can then be analyzed to either rule out or prove the issue.
Goldendoodle and other hybrids are very hardy dogs providing they are not inbred, linebred or backbred. Those who breed multi-generation hybrids of any sort cause their hybrids to have the same kinds of problems purebred dogs share. Hybrids tend to be a much hardier dog when they do NOT share common lineage or ancestry. Where allergies and shedding is concerned, the fact is hybrids and all live animals DO shed. Humans shed, every living thing sheds. However..........Poodle hybrids DO shed entirely less than any other hybrid or purebred dog. It is easy to find websites over the internet claiming "hypo-allergenic", "non-shedding" doodles...but it is not true. It doesn't matter if the breeder has a smidget of Golden Retriever with mostly Poodle in the doodle........the puppy will shed and will continue to shed as an adult; All hybrids shed very little, but they shed all the same. We have had customers write to us claiming their doodles do not shed...but I believe they just don't see the shedding because it is so light. This works out great for those with allergies or who do not want a dog's hair all over their home, clothing or vehicle. There isn't a breeder on this planet who can provide a 100% allergy FREE dog! Not happening people!
Most allergy sufferers do well with a Poodle hybrid....but we can not guarantee all will be compatible. Allergy sufferers "suffer" differently and there may be some people who just can not own a dog of any type. We do, however, find that most people who have mild allergies do quite well with a Poodle hybrid.
In Goldendoodles, many websites claim that sizes will vary according to the sizes of the parents. This is a complete fallacy. Since 1999, we have witnessed a variety of sizes in any given litter regardless of the sizes of the parents.
Our experience over the years has taught us this: The less a puppy weighs at 8 weeks of age, the smaller the puppy will be as an adult and vice versa. Those who consider their Goldendoodles to be a Miniature size dog when their doodle weighs over 25 pounds need to do more research and studying. I personally do not consider a 30-50 pound dog to be a "Miniature" sized anything. I do consider this size dog to be a "mid-size" dog...but not a Miniature. When you consider a Miniature sized dog, you should consider the size of a Miniature Schnauzer.........a Miniature Poodle, etc; Since 1999, we have witnessed both parents weighing 48-65 pounds produce 26 pound puppies...but not all puppies in the litter will be small. One or two will be small. One or two will be medium and one or two will be large. In 2004, We produced a doodle who weighed 32 pounds at the age of 9 months. It is possible we had produced small doodles before this, but without customer feed-back, it is impossible to know for sure. This 32 pound doodle at the age of 9 months, most likely turned out to be 40-45 pounds (genetically) at the age of 1 year. In early 2005, we produced 2 litters of small doodles; By June 2005, some weighed 16 lbs. by age 5 months and by November of 2005, some were weighing 25 and 26 pounds. In 2005 we bred one of our Golden Retriever dams with one of our Toy Poodle sires who produced 9-18 lbs. goldendoodles ...but again....we saw the usual occur even in this kind of pairing. The largest male who was born last, was stillborn so we'll never know what his size could have been. The order in which a puppy is born has nothing to do with the determination of its size. We know this to be a fact.
The Golden Retriever is a notorious shedder! ALL YEAR LONG! We absolutely adore the temperament of our Goldens....but HATE the chronic shedding....as do many people who have now fallen head over heels in love with the Goldendoodle. The Poodle is listed as a "non-shedder". While we have to disagree that it is possible for any dog to be a "non-shedder" in the literal sense, we do agree that the Goldendoodle, when a first hybrid cross between a Poodle and a Golden Retriever is an extremely LOW-shedder. It is simply amazing that a dog can have all the hair that a Goldendoodle has and yet, shed so little! While many "Naysayers" believe that you may have a beautiful doodle with a rotten disposition because it was crossed with a poodle....that is far from the actual truth! Goldendoodles are extremely loving, loyal and kind to a fault. They do not have an aggressive bone in their body. Anyone who has ever claimed a doodle to be aggressive are people who have personality issues of their own and just plain poor dog owners.
Based on personal experience, we did discover that there are many Poodles out there with bad dispositions. The Poodles we now own have very loving dispositions....are kind, playful, smart and sassy but we did have to go through a few to weed out the bad from the good. Anyone interested in breeding the Goldendoodle better do alot of searching before committing to a Poodle. We were very fortunate in that we were able to personally observe the behavior & disposition of our Poodles as they grew before having to Commit to them. For the majority of people seeking a breeding dog.....they have to rely upon what the breeder tells them and accept or decline the dog at the time the dog becomes available. They may not, like we did, have the option of visiting with the dog many times over a course of 6 months or longer. In our situation, we were able to observe our sires for up to 9 months before deciding to commit. This is a rarity for many seeking breeding stock of any breed. Never can you tell with just one meeting of a Poodle puppy if that dog will make or break your future offspring or if the dog possesses whatever it is you are seeking that particular dog to sire or dam. Not even by meeting the parents of a puppy can one actually know 100% that the dog will have whatever it is you are looking for in personality or temperament. Size was not of relevance where we were concerned. Personality and gentleness was a key priority for our doodle offspring. Personally, I don't believe a person can sum up a puppy by meeting its parents. No one knows a puppy better than its breeder. To judge the parents of a puppy based on one meeting is unfair to the puppy and the parents. First of all, a one time meeting may be stressful for the dogs. You are new to them and they to you. They will be excited.....stressed out.....perhaps even bouncey (many call it hyper) when in fact, that is not how the dogs usually act at all! They are only reacting to a new situation with new people in front of them demanding some kind of "performance" test. They may even be edgy because you may have been to a different breeder before meeting with them and the parents of a particular pup smell the other dogs on your clothing. This may cause them to back-off and act cautiously and NOT want you near their puppy. Showing the parents of a puppy that you are seeking to view is very chaotic and disruptive for the breeder and their kennel and actually takes away from the puppy, which is unfair. People should never try and select a puppy based on "viewing its parents". Did these people select their spouse based on viewing his/her parents? It's silly! People use the excuse of disposition. 9 times out of 10, bad dispositions come from poor ownership. Bad dogs come from bad owners. Any dog that is prone to bite can be a "biter" from any of the above reasons. There are those fanatics who believe that "over-breeding" and "in-breeding" causes this type of behavior......I'd like to see their genetic licensing that allows them to make such bold statements. The only thing Over-breeding causes is bad health to the dog who is being overly bred!!! It can also cause poor health in the puppies, if the dam is not carefully attended to while pregnant. Female dogs are very much like human females.....they get to a certain age where having a baby of any sort is unhealthy to both mother and fetus. The older a woman becomes, the more she places her unborn child at risk for having genetic defects. A female dog is pretty much the same with regards to age and having healthy offspring. The older a dog gets, the higher at risk her puppies are for having health problems or even dying right after being born. We believe that when a female dog reaches a particular age, she should be removed from the breeders' program...the same goes for a sire. Males can continue to sire a litter for a very long time, whereas a female has only so many years to carry & conceive healthy pups. When a female dog reaches a certain age, they naturally stop producing litters entirely.
Despite the fact there are negative dog breeders and owners who believe it repulsive to even consider mixing a Golden Retriever and a Poodle together, the truth is Goldendoodles and all Poodle hybrids are extremely popular and they are here to stay. The demand for the Goldendoodle is much higher than the demand for the Labradoodle. Why, exactly, I could not say. We have seen, since 1999, many breeders popping up on every street corner to create Goldendoodles and Labradoodles and just as I predicted back in 1999, many people who have jumped on the doodle bandwagon, purchased a doodle from myself or another breeder and bred it to a Poodle and are now proclaming to be some sort of "genetic" expert with regards to their so-called "never shedding, hypo-allergenic" doodle dogs. Some of those who jumped on the doodle bandwagons are the very breeders who were extremely critical of this mixture in the very beginning and were kicking and screaming FOUL about this hybrid coming into the dog world.
Just as the purebred dogs have been ran into the ground.....this is now occurring with the Goldendoodle hybrid by people who buy a Goldendoodle and breed it with THEIR Poodle without so much as even doing any lineage research to ensure their Goldendoodle is NOT related to their Poodle. Such breeders should be completely avoided because they are doing a terrible disservice to the Goldendoodle hybrid and the worst part is they have no clue what the hell they are doing.
Over several of our pages through-out this website, we do have links with regards to genetics and the problems that can and do occur with inbreeding, line-breeding and back-breeding dogs. Some breeders are claiming they are trying to "Stabilize" the Goldendoodle by inbreeding, linebreeding and outcrossing in order to turn the Goldendoodle into a purebred dog. This downright silly and ridiculous. While some will argue that this is how the purebred dog began back in the old days....let's not forget that the entire reason the purebred dog of today has so many genetic issues is because of too much inbreeding and backbreeding!!! Breeders created the Poodle hybrid because of the shedding issue. There's not a shred of evidence to prove that a Poodle or a Poodle hybrid is a hypoallergenic dog or that by instilling more Poodle into the hybrid's genetic make up, the dog will never shed! It's absurd to even think that a breeder would try to turn the Goldendoodle into a "purebred" dog by inbreeding the hybrid so much that they are no longer an actual Goldendoodle. While it is completely okay to breed a Goldendoodle to an unrelated Poodle, a breeder should research their Poodle's pedigree on the Goldendoodle's side and their Poodle's side to ensure the dogs are not closely related before considering breeding a Goldendoodle to a Poodle. Should the Poodle that is bred to the Goldendoodle be too closely related, genetic complications can occur. The coat will also more than likely sport a very curly coat. It has been our experience that so long as the Poodle is not closely related to the Poodle in the Goldendoodle, much of the offspring will sport the same shaggy and wavey coat along with the "V" shaped beard. A few will sport loose curls in the coat. None of the doodles will have a tightly curled coat. The breeders who backbreed and inbreed Goldendoodles will claim that the curlier the coat, the less shedding. I disagree with that notion and I also would like to see documented evidence proving their claim. Evidence meaning, DNA hair strand reports proving a Poodle is a hypo-allergenic dog or that the more Poodle that is instilled into a Poodle hybrid, the less shedding. While I personally do not have an issue with a Goldendoodle being bred to a completely non-related Poodle.....I do have an issue that a breeder who does this turns around and falsely claims that the offspring are now "MINIATURE" doodles and will NEVER shed and are now "HYPO-ALLERGENIC". This is what I have an issue with. There is NO scientific proof anywhere that can back up such claims. We do know for a fact that nearly all Poodle hybrids (first generation) are low shedding dogs and that the majority of people who have mild allergies, do very well with them. With regards to the claim that some breeders create "Miniature" Goldendoodles........I have yet to understand why so many people come to believe a 35-50 pound dog is a MINIATURE size dog. I'm completely baffled by this. I just don't get it. Am I missing something here??? Just because a breeder uses a Miniature Poodle as one of the parents in no way causes the offspring to remain 25 pounds as an adult dog. People who actually believe that a 35-50 pound dog is a Miniature sized dog need a reality check. We go by Kennel Club standards. And yes!!! Goldendoodles ARE A RECOGNIZED AND REGISTERABLE HYBRID WITH MANY REPUTABLE KENNEL CLUBS. They will never be recognized by The American Kennel Club unless AKC sees a huge bank roll in it for themselves. AKC only registers purebred dogs...not hybrids. Contact any Kennel Club with regards to standards for what constitutes a Miniature sized dog and you will find that dogs that stand no more than 15" in height and weigh no more than 25 pounds is considered to be a Miniature sized dog. Any dog weighing over 25 pounds is NOT considered to be a Miniature sized dog. I am not sure why Goldendoodle breeders came to some strange conclusion that their dogs weighing over 25 pounds were Miniature sized dogs. Further EDUCATION IS GREATLY NEEDED by those making such claims. If you are seeking a Goldendoodle that weighs OVER 25 pounds, we can accommodate you most of the time. While we do on occasion have doodles weighing less than 25 pounds, we do not call them "Miniature" sized doodles. Whatever size you are seeking...CLICK HERE to see what is available.
It has also disappointed us that sites like Wikopedia continue to allow ridiculous information to be placed with regards to Goldendoodles, on their site. While the administrator of Wikopedia tried to tell us that several breeders were trying to turn the Goldendoodle into a purebred dog and that the information with regards to the doodle on their site was accurate, I completely disagree! Not only is the admin of Wikopedia NOT a breeder......he definitely has no clue what he's talking about! If and when anyone is allowed to turn the Goldendoodle into a purebred dog, it will be a day of sadness. The Goldendoodle will then find its way down the road like its purebred counterparts and will completely destroy the main reason this hybrid was created to begin with.
You can always tell an inexperienced breeder by the terms they use on their website or through their advertisements.....here are some examples:
*FULL-BLOODED: All living animals are full of blood! Hence, they would otherwise be dead! The correct term is "PUREBRED".
*FLEECE OR WOOL OR WOOLEY COAT: Such coat terminology should refer to camels, goat and sheep...not Goldendoodles. The correct terms are "wavy coat"....."Curly coat"....."Shaggy coat"... "Flat coat".
*RARE COLORS OR RARE MARKINGS: These words are mere sales tactics! There is no such thing as a rare color or rare marking for a Poodle or a Goldendoodle or a Labradoodle or a Poodle hybrid period. The Poodle has such a wide array of colors within their lineage that all colors and all markings can occur!!! Doodles can have brown, blue, green, amber colored eyes or the combination of all these colors. While its not easy to achieve eye color other than brown.....it's not rare. We have Poodles with green eyes and Golden Retrievers with green eyes. Just like it is not common for two brown eyed parents to produce a blue eyed child, it is not rare. It occurs on occasion and that is how it occurs with our doodles who have eye color other than brown. It comes out at random and we can't selectively "breed" for it. I believe even if a breeder had two blue eyed Goldendoodles, they would have a higher percentage in offspring with blue eyes, but they would still have some with brown eyes or a combination of brown/blue. Genetics is complicated, but a breeder who desires to learn about genetics can increase their success in achieving whatever it is they set out to achieve in their doodles, hybrids and purebreds.
*YELLOW....ALMOND...GOLD....BROWN...TAN: These color terms are not related to a Goldendoodle or Labradoodle. Correct colors are "CREAM, WHITE, RED, LIGHT APRICOT, DARK APRICOT, SILVER, BLACK, Silver PHANTOM, Red phantom, Black & tan, CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE PHANTOM, APRICOT WITH BLACK TIPS, any color with white markings, PARTI-COLORS or TRI-COLORS THAT COMBINE ANY OF THESE COLORS"....these are the only colors that pertain to the Goldendoodle or Labradoodle.
*NON-SHEDDING OR HYPO-ALLERGENIC: There is no such animal on the face of this earth who are truly hypo-allergenic and all living things shed to include humans. However......Goldendoodles are the lowest shedding canine and because they have low dander, they do work out very well for many allergy sufferers....but NOT ALL can attest to doing well with a Poodle hybrid regardless of breed.
*FACTUAL INFORMATION: FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR WITH DOODLES OR POODLE MIXES-
ALL OFFSPRING ARE CONSIDERED POODLE HYBRIDS IF ONE PARENT DOG IS A POODLE AND THE OTHER PARENT DOG IS NOT. ALL POODLE HYBRIDS ARE LOW SHEDDING DOGS REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENERATION.
*There are some Goldendoodle breeders out there who feel very threatened by their competition and do everything they can to try and hurt their fellow breeders by using forums of which they express their derogatory opinions and non-factual rumors. THEY DO THEIR BEST TO STEER POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS IN THEIR OWN DIRECTION TO PLACE A BUCK IN THEIR OWN POCKET. THEY USE THEIR OWN PERSONAL FORUMS AS A WAY OF MAKING THEMSELVES APPEAR TO BE BETTER THAN THEIR COMPETITORS
For those who have an issue with our policy of NOT allowing contact with our puppies just so they can "visit" or "see what a goldendoodle looks like" .......Our policy is what it is because we've suffered losses in the past due to people handling puppies from various places before visiting with us. Such people are those who feel they must meet and greet as many puppies in a single day as possible while on their search for their perfect family pet. As innocent as it may seem to do this, you have no idea how devastating it is to lose a puppy or many puppies to parvo or distemper by careless people who have come into contact with pups from pet stores, shelters, kennels or other breeders all in the same day and have nothing invested into the puppies they just contaminated. It means very little to the people who have nothing invested, yet to the breeder who has spent weeks or months with their puppies, working around the clock with them, it's a huge financial and emotional loss. Not to mention the people who may lose a puppy too, if they had a deposit placed and was waiting for their puppy to become ready to leave for its new home. It's completely devastating to many people, all the way around. While Yes, our pups are vaccinated on schedule, NO....one or two vaccines does NOT protect young puppies and if you handle a puppy and decide you don't want it for whatever reason, it must be returned to the living quarters where other pups are too young for a vaccine also live. It's a careless action that people who hop from one breeder to the next, continue to do and we simply had our fill with these careless people. We also got tired of people wasting our time. Making appointments and Not showing up when they said they were coming out; Not bothering to call to cancel an appointment; or simply coming out to handle and browse through our puppies and then claim they "had to speak with Joe Blow" before making a decision. After years of dealing with inconsiderate people, enough was enough. Our policy was changed in late 2004 for many, many reasons! Before our policy change, we'd been scammed, taken advantage of, had pups stolen by people who wrote worthless checks, had pups stolen by people using a credit card and then doing a "charge back" or having used a stolen credit card, etc; Our updated policy now protects both the buyer and the seller. We want everyone to purchase from us if they are seeking a beautiful, well rounded, quality puppy as a family pet. We protect personal information provided to us by those who complete our canine application. Never will we share, sell or give out anyone's personal information to include telephone numbers to the general public. We definitely will NOT share any personal information to anyone seeking "references". Regardless of whether you believe this is what a breeder should do or not, we absolutely WILL NOT give out any of our customers' personal info such as email addresses or phone numbers for any reason what so ever unless they specifically given this permission in writing for us to do so. Anyone can contact the Universal Kennel Club of which we are affiliated with if they desire a "breeder" reference and may CLICK HERE to visit their website. We can be located literally all over internet! We have been a professional breeder for nearly 11 years as of Dec. 2006. WE ARE AVAILABLE 24 HOURS A DAY, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK TO TAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS! 704-278-dogs (3647) or 704-640-0477.
We make purchasing easy, simple and quick! Our name, address and phone number can be located upon our puppy application!
Even though that particular litter may stay very small as an adult, we will NOT consider them to be "Miniature" Goldendoodles. They just happen to be small is all. The reason we can't claim them to be "Miniature" Goldendoodles is because we don't know if the largest surviving male stayed 15" in height and whether the one that was stillborn would have stayed 15" in height. Kennel standards for a true Miniature size dog is no more than 15" in height and 25 lbs. in genetic weight. So, what do we know about the coat of a Goldendoodle? Since 1999, we have produced two coat types. One coat type is shaggy and wavey and the other is also shaggy and wavey but with loose curls about the coat. The coat type is noticable sometimes within a few hours after birth by the presence of many ripples. Othertimes we must wait until the pup ages a bit so that we can see the loose curls about the face, legs and coat. Loose curls in a doodle coat does NOT mean less shedding. Let's get that straight right away. All Poodle hybrids shed very little, curls or no curls. It's very annoying to see doodle breeders make claims they can't back up with DNA evidence or support regarding shedding.
We have learned that should any of our doodle puppies have a very fuzzy face, their coat will be very thick, very long and still be shaggy but with loose curls about the coat as an adult! Some call this the "teddy bear" effect....we just call it for what it is...a doodle that is shaggy with loose curls about the coat. Should their coat be somewhat flat from the tip of their nose up to their forehead, they will still be shaggy as an adult. but it is not as long as those with a fuzzy face. Many people have fallen in love with the Goldendoodle because of the low shedding issue.
