Our Program
Steps to Take a Puppy Home
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1. When the waitlist is open for a certain paring submit an application
2. Once it is approved, you will need to send a $500 deposit
3. When the deposit is received, you will automatically join the waitlist for your selected litter. The order of deposits received is the order of the waitlist.
4. Once puppies are 6 weeks old we will have an in-person or online visit day, only for the families on the waitlist. The remaining payment is due, and you choose your puppy.
5. Take-home day is when puppies are 8 weeks old. We can meet at our home where our puppies are raised, meet up at the local airport (PDX), or we can deliver locally.
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As breeders, we are responsible for the new life we help create. We try our best to place puppies in the correct homes, that is the reason for the application, agreements, and contracts. A strict purchase agreement and spay/neuter contract must be signed before taking any puppy home.
Our puppies
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At Blissful Doodles our growing family raises the puppies with love! We are a smaller Goldendoodle breeding program which allows us to focus on a few litters a year and give them all the needed attention.
Our puppies are raised following the BAB curriculum. We work with them on ENS, ESI, handling, sound desensitization, socialization temperament testing, potty, and crate training each puppy will go home microchipped, dewormed, vaccinated, vet checked, and a toy/blanket with mom/litter smell, treats, a small bag of current puppy food folder with information and paperwork and of course lifetime breeder support.
Our puppies are strictly sold at pet prices. Absolutely no breeding!
Bad Ass Breeder Curriculum (BAB) BAB is an exelent program that we use not only for our puppies but the whole program. this curriculum has step by step approaches to handling puppies from day 1 till they go home. Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS) ENS is a series of exersices preformed between day 3 and 16 after birth that has been shown to make dogs smarter, strengthen their hearts and other vital body systems and help them resist diseases. according to AKC, the US military designed this method to improve the preformancee of future military working dogs. Early Sent Introduction (ESI) ESI is a training program for puppies designed to enhance their ability to identify and react to specific scents. Preformed on the same days as ENS. Each day the trainer introduces a strong scent to the puppies for brief intervals. Sound Desensitization Sound desensitization is a was to socialize puppies to diffrent new sounds and wont fear them in the future. Sounds include, fireworks, cars, vacumes, children, etc. Socialization Once the puppies are old enough they are exposed to new areas, smells, sounds, surfaces, people, and dogs. During the first 16 weeks of their life, puppies go throuh a socialization period that shapes their future temperaments and personality. The ammount of human interaction, socialization, and exposure to new experiences that a puppy has greatly affects their temperament. Potty Training We begin potty training as soon as puppies start to crawl around and play. We continue with the training until 8 weeks. Puppies are not fully potty trained by that time and the new family will have to continue the training. Crate Training We start crate training our puppies so that our families have an easier time on the first night and they dont have to start from the beggining. Crate training is very important! By creating a safe comfortable space for them in their crate, your family will be able to keep them safe from anything thta they can get into when you cannot watch them, and it helps with potty training. Temperment Evaluations BAB's temperemnt evaluations help us and the families choose the right puppy! This test lets us see the strengths and weaknesses of each puppy. it will help us determine what kind of home each puppy needs.
Our doodles
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Blissful Doodles specializes in red multigenerational Goldendoodles with straight and wavy coats. Our mini Goldendoodles usually range from 20-35 lbs. We believe is the perfect size, not too big and not too small. We love the straight and wavy coats for their shaggy appearance and easier maintenance. With correct furnishings and carefully selected parents, we can create the perfect red healthy, low-shedding, allergy friendly Goldendoodles.
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We are a small home based program with only 1-2 litters a year, and only 4 goldendoodles in our program; Ava, Hunter, Penny, and Gracie. Ava and Hunter reside with me, they have normal house family dog lives. They often go on trips with our family and gets lots of love and pampering. Penny and Gracie live in guardian homes. We are a smaller Goldendoodle breeding program which allows us to focus on a few litters a year and give them all the needed attention.
​We want to create not only a healthy good tempered dogs, but also beautiful ones. We want our puppies to have the dark noses, red, straight and/or wavy coats, to get the shaggier appearance. Be fully furnished, low shedding (no dog is non- shedding, not even poodles), with white tuxedo or abstract markings. Blocky/square body structures, this means no CDDY or IVDD carriers and not to much poodle in their DNA.
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Health Testing
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Our doodles go through a whole process before being added to our breeding program. They must
have good traits, temperaments, and pass their health tests. We give our dogs top-quality, food, nutrients, grooming, vet checks, and of course pampering.
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Our Goldendoodles get their OFA's, breed specific genetic test panels and breed ID results before breeding! View health tests here or you can visit our Good Dog page to see them there under each dog.
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All our dogs are CDDY, IVDD, and CDPA clear! This phenotype makes the dog's body long and legs short, similar to dachshunds and corgis. We prefer goldendoodles with more blocky and proportional body structures. To ensure that, we don't breed any dogs that are affected or carriers of CDDY, IVDD, and CDPA. There is a small number of goldendoodle breeders that take this into seriouc consideration. https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/test/cddy-cdpa
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Our top priority is healthy and happy parents and puppies. We breed our females on their second or third heat
cycle, it will depend on their overall health, health test results, and maturity. Our breeding females are bred back
to back for 4-5 litters and then are spayed. The latest research proves that this is better for females and reduces
the risk of mammary cancer and uterine diseases. If you want more information please go to the links below.
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http://www.rutlandmanor.com/uploads/5/6/3/1/5631556/dr_kate_schoeffel_back_to_back_breeding.pdf
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