If you arrived here from one of our old litter or “upcoming litters” pages: our breeding program has ended, and there are no litters, waiting lists or deposits. The week-by-week journals from those litters now live in our Puppy Development guide, and if you’re looking for a puppy, start with how to find a responsible breeder.
We have retired from breeding, and no longer have upcoming litters or puppies available. We are keeping this page as a record of our breeding program and the dogs who made it what it was — and because the philosophy behind how we bred is still useful to anyone raising a puppy naturally today.
Our Breeding Philosophy
All of our litters were raised holistically, just like the rest of our dogs. We did not dock tails (the traditional Poodle breed standard) — instead we groomed our Poodles to look much like a Goldendoodle.
We placed real weight on genetic diversity, including breeding for the Parti coat gene — a two-color coat pattern (in our case, chocolate/white or black/white litters). We saw it as a valuable part of a holistic approach to breeding, alongside temperament.
Above all, we matched puppies to their forever families based primarily on temperament, not coat color. We understood families often had strong, legitimate preferences about color, and tried to work with that — but we would not place a puppy with an incompatible family simply because of her color.
The Dogs Behind Our Program
Buttercup, our English Golden Retriever, was the foundation of our Goldendoodle litters and the mother of Stella. She was born in Canada to parents from Scotland, with field champions on her mother’s side and show champions on her father’s. At about 65 lb she was on the smaller side for a Golden, with a very meek, gentle spirit. You can follow her first litter, from the day they were born, in our puppy development journal.
Cedric, a purebred Standard Poodle, sired several of our Goldendoodle litters. We fell in love with him the first time we met him: sweet, gentle, very obedient — and in all our time with him we never once heard him bark. He was wonderful around our children, which is exactly the temperament we wanted to pass on.
Stella, our F1 Goldendoodle, was herself one of our own puppies, born from Buttercup. She lived with her own amazing forever family, and went on to have litters of her own with exactly the temperament we hoped to see continue.
Ziggy, our Standard Parti Poodle stud, came to us from Hawaii. Beyond his striking Parti coat and the genetic diversity he brought to our litters, he had a wonderful temperament — he grew up with an eight-year-old girl as his best friend, and adored children in our own family too. He was exactly the kind of temperament we wanted to send home with our puppies.
Coconut, an F1 Goldendoodle, and Jasmine, a chocolate Parti Standard Poodle, rounded out our program. We encouraged families with severe allergies to take the time to meet our Poodles specifically, to see if that coat type was the better fit.
Related guides
- Puppy Development Week by Week — the journals we kept of our litters
- How We Raised Our Puppies — our rearing protocol
- Guardian Homes — how our breeding dogs lived with families
- Our Dogs: Photo Gallery — photos of our past dogs and litters