What Goes in to Producing Our Dogs

Breeding outstanding Australian Labradoodles takes an incredible amount of work.  If you ask any breeder member of the Australian Labradoodle Association of America, the Australian Labradoodle Club of America, or any of the other breeding associations who exist to make sure the dogs you get are the best they can possibly be.

We raise our dogs in our homes and not in outbuildings, outside, or in kennels.  The rule of thumb is that a puppy ought to meet 100 different people by the time they go home to their new families.  Imagine having one or two litters of puppies in your home (already a massive job) and then having folks you know come to your house by the dozens each week so that by the eighth week your puppies have met and been handled by 100 different people.  This helps your dog to be friendly with everyone.  You want a dog that will comfortably greet new folks.  

We also spend time training your puppy to know where to go potty and more importantly, where not to go potty.  We work with each puppy to train them that there are places where they are praised and rewarded if they potty so that they do not go potty indiscriminately around the house.  Why go potty somewhere that you do not get rewarded if you can go potty in a particular place and get a great tasting treat?  We do something similar with training your puppy about their crate.  We want to teach our puppies that the crate is a place of safety and reward.  They actually like being in their crates!  This helps a lot with the potty training as well.

Along with the training we also do extensive health testing on our breeding dogs so that your puppies are as healthy as they can be.  We test hips, elbows, and patellas so that the dogs we choose to breed are going to produce puppies with good joints.  In Labrador Retrievers, hip dysplasia is a big problem.  We test our dogs with Penn Hip and OFA tests to make sure that your puppies parents have great hips, elbows, and patellas that they pass on to their puppies.  We also test their eyes, their hearts, and their thyroid.  

All of this takes a lot of time and expense.  It is worth it to improve the Labradoodle breed.  It is worth it when we place your new puppy with you.  We want to hear from you after years and years of you and your dog enjoying life together.  

If you have any questions about our breeding program, our dogs, or how we train them, feel free to contact us in the following ways: phone (503-554-5785) e-mail Ann@EvergreenManorLabradoodles.com, or at our webpage www.EvergreenManorLabradoodles.com.  We love to talk with anyone about our work.

If you are interested in getting a high quality dog like those we produce feel free to go to our upcoming litters page http://evergreenmanorlabradoodles.com/Australian_Labradoodle_Puppies_Upcoming_Litter.html.  We have four premium litters coming up in the next few months and you can reserve your space on our list now.