What is a Guardian Home?

Here at Southern Coast Goldendoodles, we do not believe that puppies or dogs are best served by being kennel raised. By placing them in a home environment, whether as a puppy or young adult, we are doing our best to ensure their happiness and best start in life. With this amazing program, none of our breeding dogs have ever been kennel raised.

The majority of guardian homes are families who cannot afford to purchase a Goldendoodle, but some guardians love how our program works and enjoy working alongside us. For those who could not afford to purchase a Goldendoodle outright, the guardian home option is a fantastic way to have to have a healthy, pure-bred dog. This system helps us as a breeder greatly as we never have to use kennels and are free to devote the time and attention deserved to our own dogs.

As a Guardian Home you will be required to pay for the everyday expenses of owning a puppy including annual exams, vaccines, food, etc, but we cover for all breeding related costs including health testing.

How does the program work?

The process starts with finding a suitable guardian home for either a puppy or adult dog in need of a home as they are being added to our breeding program. Beyond our normal requirements for adopting from us, selecting a suitable guardian home for our dogs comes with more conditions, which are listed below. Once a guardian home and family has been selected and approved, the puppy/dog moves in with the chosen family.

When the puppy/dog reaches appropriate breeding age, the dog is fully introduced into the breeding program, meaning that our dogs are not fixed while they work with us. For female dogs, they remain in our breeding program until they have produced four litters of puppies, and are then retired and remain with their guardian home for the rest of their lives. This is why we require our guardian dogs to remain a certain distance from our primary zip code, and for our guardian homes to be flexible as we house the dogs for breedings, births, and whelping as well as for testing and other things breeding related. We health and DNA test when the dogs are around two years old.

We strive to produce healthy and happy puppies, which comes from us having healthy, happy, and well trained parents. This program allows us to have all of the dogs in our breeding program get the specialized attention they deserve, without the use of kennels.

Guardian Requirements

With this amazing program, we are selective with our placing of dogs with Guardian Homes. Below is a list of requirements for our Guardians that must be followed at all times.

Guardians must have previous experience with dogs.
Females dogs must live within 45 minutes of zip code 30518, Males dogs must live within 15 minutes of 30518.
Guardians must own their home, no renting or temporary housing permitted.
Guardians homes must have a fenced in yard.
Guardians must be willing to teach basic commands such as sit, stay, lay-down, and leave it to guardian puppies/dogs.
Guardians must socialize guardian puppies/dogs with human adults and children as well as other dogs. This is very important for working with our program.
Guardians must maintain pet insurance on the guardian puppies/dogs at all times.
Guardian puppies and dogs must be an indoor pets, and puppies never left unattended outside.
Guardian puppies/dogs must be fed a premium, quality food.
All other dogs interacting with guardian puppies/dogs on a regular basis must be fixed (neutered/spayed).
Guardians must not allow guardian puppy/dog to mate with any unapproved dogs.
Guardians must provide regular exercise to guardian puppies/dogs.
Guardians must be willing to let us, the breeder, visit your home.
Guardians must contact breeder immediately in the event of a serious illness or accident.
Guardians must send a copy of all vet visits to breeder.
Guardians must provide veterinary care to guardian puppy/dog when needed, including annual exams and necessary vaccines.
For female guardian dogs, guardians must be willing to drop her off for up to a week while she is bred. Then drop her back off 1 week prior to her whelping date. She will stay with us until the puppies are weaned.
For male guardian dogs, guardians must be willing to drop him off for 3-5 days for breedings unless arrangements are made ahead of time for us to pick him up.
Guardians must be able to communicate with us, the breeder, about scheduling testing, mating, whelping, and anything else breeding related.

Please reach out to us at englishteddybeardoodles@gmail.com or call us at 678-428-0177 if you have any questions, or are interested in working with us!