Ludwig's Doodles Philosophy ...

Home Breeder doesn't have to mean "back yard breeder"

The main difference between a kennel and a home breeder are the living conditions and socialization.  Not all Kennels are dirty and not all home breeders are clean.  Not all kennels lock their dogs in runs all day and not all home breeders offer great living socialization.  You need to make sure the breeder you choose is one that cares about cleanliness, health testing and socialization of the adult dogs and puppies.  Having an adult dog or puppy live in unsanitary conditions has to have life long health effects.  Think of it this way ... if you have a sewage flood in your basement, you will find that they will remove and discard everything that was in contact with the contaminated water.  Well puppies and adults sitting in their own feces and urine has to have respiratory ramifications as well as compromising the maturing immune system.

Ludwig's Blue F2B not realizing he is a dog - don't tell the owners

Here at Ludwig's Doodles we maintain a level of cleanliness in the puppy area that visitors can come with little advance notice.  I do not believe in washing puppies before people come, I believe they should always be as clean as possible.  If our puppies go to the breeding homes for part of the raising period they follow the same rules as we have here.  They need to be socialized with people including children, kept clean, given a large amount of living space and all around well kept and loved.  We use breeding homes and have some of them raise the puppies so that we can produce more fantastic home raised puppies without having our home overloaded.  It is a great balance in being able to expand our breeding business but maintain the quality of puppies we produce.

We keep in touch with every owner of every litter.  

Hobbes F1B Goldendoodle with Grandma	Blue's daily conversation

They send in photos and I post them.  The page is incomplete because I stopped posting to Picturetrail.  I started doing individual pages.  It will take a bit of time to transfer them all over to this new format.

Every breeding home has the support of the entire family.  The two girls in Windsor come here often.  They have become our second family.  The two girls in Stratford act as if they are one of us.  Nala my sister-in-laws girl is one of us.  Keiko lives so close that we see her all the time.  Some how I have the support of all those in the program.  This year I have added three Standard Poodles ( one I kept back ) Dharma's puppies.  We will be doing the show circuit with them.  They will start my purebred Standard Poodle line.  Hopefully one from Ivy's litter is in (we will see) and one from Keiko's litter will be living with Keiko and also in the program.  Nala's litter we will see.

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