Goldendoodles Where to Buy?
Bringing Home a Goldendoodle: Where to buy for great health and excellent temperament.
To ensure your pet has excellent health and great temperament throughout their life, you need to find a breeder who performs genetic health tests and who NEVER, EVER inbreeds (pairing related dogs to breed with each other).
To get a puppy with great behavior, you want a breeder who raises puppies with a family, beings potty training, and helps you with matching a puppy’s personality to fit you and your family.
Goldendoodle Where To Buy – Tennessee
There are several options in Tennessee.
Goldendoodle breeders can often be found through a Google search, or through puppy directory sites like Gooddog.com or puppyspot.com. Just make sure when buying from any of these directories that you look into the breeder and make sure they are providing the right training and breeding practices to ensure your goldendoodle puppy can look forward to a long, healthy life as a loving part of your family.
⚠ BEWARE: Just because a breeder is included on a puppy directory site does NOT guarantee they provide quality, healthy puppies with great temperaments. ⚠
Goldendoodle Where To Buy for HEALTH
When it comes to people, we seem to instinctually know that you shouldn’t marry your brother or your sister.
Hard as it may be to believe, some breeders haven’t clue in that dogs work the same way, and they often breed related dogs with each other. This is called inbreeding, and it leads to a much greater incidence of birth issues, defects, and massively increases the risk of puppies having long-term genetics problems.
One of the reasons we like goldendoodles here at DoodleBrood is that they are a mixed breed. Because they come from a mixed ancestry of golden retrievers and poodles, the chances of a puppy being produce by inbreeding are already drastically reduced. We track the ancestry of our breeding males and females further (especially when breeding F1B puppies) to make sure any chance of inbreeding has been 100% eliminated.
So, you need to find a breeder who NEVER, EVER inbreeds.
Next, you need a breeder who performs genetic health testing on their breeding males and females to ensure there is no risk of passing on genetic illnesses to their puppies. At DoodleBrood, we use Embark, but there are number of reputable companies out there providing excellent testing options for breeders. Just ask any prospective breeder if they have genetic test results for their breeding dogs that they can provide to you. If they can’t, then you probably want to look elsewhere.
Remember, not all genetic problems present in the parents, but they can still be passed on to their puppies! That’s why testing is so important.
Backyard breeders usually do not have ANY health or testing records for the dogs they are breeding together. Such breeders run an unacceptably high risk of either inbreeding, or breeding dogs that can pass on genetic problems.
Goldendoodle Where To Buy for BEHAVIOUR
Goldendoodles were originally bred to combine the golden retriever’s gentleness with the athleticism and intelligence of the poodle. Goldendoodles are energetic pups that adore their people, but it’s critical that they be raised properly If you want to get a Goldendoodle puppy that will grow up to exhibit the adoring gentleness of their golden retriever relatives, do this:
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Look for a breeder who raises their puppies as part of the family, with lots of handling and exposure to humans both within the household and outside the home as well. This exposure and condition will prepare your puppy to bond with you and your family and become an adored member of the home.
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Look for a breeder who initiates potty training from a young age. It’s so much easier to continue training that has already been started than it is to begin from scratch. And anyone who has ever had a young puppy knows that potty training can be one of the most important yet frustrating aspects of raising a new pup.
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Look for a breeder who actively guides you in how to safely socialize your puppy before it is fully immunized. Early puppy socialization is critical up to 14-week age. Puppies that aren’t well socialized before this age struggle to bond with humans later on. Even before final shots including the rabies vaccination, take your pup into the world. Carry them into stores for brief visits. Have friends and family over to visit with your pup in a safe, quiet setting. Focus on continuing socialization, and your goldendoodle pup with benefit immensely.
Here's Why You Don’t Want to Buy a Puppy from a Pet Store
In some states, you can still buy goldendoodle puppies from a pet store. Some people like this option, as it gives them a chance to see a puppy in person before buying, and they think that the pet store must be making sure the puppy has been raised well. Sadly, that is often not the case. Buying from a pet store eliminates your ability to know the breeder that has raised the pup from the beginning.
Studies have proven that puppies bought from pet stores are much more likely to come from puppy mills and to have much greater problems with behavior later in life.
These risks include greater incidences of aggression, including toward those the puppy lives with, but especially toward strangers. Such puppies are also frequently fearful, and don’t do well in novel situations. They can struggle with greater risk of separation anxiety, touch-sensitivity, and acting-out in order to get your attention.
Having an excellent breeder who focuses on proper socialization from a young age can protect your puppy’s well-being and give them the best start in life. In the same way a good parent prepares their children for life both within and outside the home, a good breeder prepares your puppy to face the world in all its varied wonder. Puppies from pet stores are too often deprived of such a beginning.
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