At Sunrise Australian Labradoodles, we do not use kennels. Our dogs are family, first and always. We believe every dog deserves to live as a beloved companion—cherished, included, and surrounded by love. Because not all of our breeding dogs can share our home full-time, we’ve created our Guardian Home Program, allowing each of them to enjoy the richness of family life while contributing to the future of our breeding program.

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A Guardian Home is a family that gets a puppy from us that will hopefully be part of our breeding program and has a forever home with you. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for selected local families to be a part of our family. It allows us to expand our program without our dogs living in kennels.  

A Guardian Home is a family that takes our “pick of the litter” puppy that is personally chosen for you by us. This puppy/dog will be your forever dog while still participating in our breeding program. The Guardian Home agrees to raise, train, love and care for the puppy as their own while Sunrise retains ownership and breeding rights for a pre-agreed amount of time. This way all of our dogs get the love they deserve in your forever home.



Females:

Cost: $500.

-Live within 2 hours of Ocala, FL.

-Full Physical Fenced Yard

A potential female puppy in our Guardian Program will return to our facility for health testing around 10 months of age. Once the results are evaluated, we’ll determine whether she will be included in our breeding program. Guardian families are responsible for transporting their dog to and from our facility for these visits and for each planned breeding and litter at mutual agreed times.

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Our female guardian dogs typically have up to four litters, always under our care and supervision. After she has completed her role in our program, she will be spayed at our expense and remain with you as your beloved family companion for the rest of her life.

 

Males:

Cost: $500. ​

-Live within 1 hour of Ocala, FL.

-Full Physical Fenced Yard

A potential male puppy in our Guardian Program will return to our facility for health testing around 10 months of age. Once the results are evaluated, we’ll determine whether he will be included in our breeding program. Guardian families are responsible for transporting their dog to and from our facility for these visits at mutual agreed times.

When his time in our program is complete—typically after he has fulfilled his breeding role or reaches about six years of age—he will be neutered at our expense and remain with you as your cherished family companion for life.

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Benefits

You will get our "pick puppy" of your chosen litter.

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Your puppy’s full health testing is provided at no cost to you. Between 10 and 12 months of age, we carefully evaluate each potential breeding dog to ensure they meet our exceptional breeding standards. Once selected, we cover all expenses for comprehensive health testing, including evaluations for hips, elbows, eyes, prcd-PRA, vWD, thyroid, cardiac health, and patella, as well as DNA profiling for more than twelve genetic disease traits known to the breed.

Cost Savings:

 

-You receive a breeding quality, health tested Australian Labradoodle for $500.

-$100 refund if puppy gains obedience or service/therapy dog certifications. ​

-Refund of half membership to Baxter & Bella Online Puppy Training.​

-Lifetime support​

-First right to second Guardian Home puppy from Sunrise.

 

Best of all… you become part of the Sunrise Labradoodle Family, and contribute to the future development of this fabulous breed worldwide. You get to enjoy being a part of our breeding program and take part in your dog's puppies going to families to enjoy for generations to come. We have a lovely relationship with all our Guardian Homes and they become family to us. The Guardian Home program is invaluable to us and working with those raising our breeding dogs makes it really special.

 

Guardian Home Placement Guidelines

- Live within a 2 hour radius of Ocala, Florida for females, and within one hour for males.

- All other dogs in the household must be spayed/neutered unless it’s one of Sunrise AL breeders.

- Provide TLC dog food during dogs breeding career.

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- Purchase lifetime membership of Baxter & Bella Online Puppy School cost $80

- Provide a safe environment that includes a fully physical fenced yard. 

- Provide transportation to and from Sunrise.

- Provide basic socialization and training. $100 refund if dog achieves it’s AKC Canine Good Citizen by the age of two, or therapy or service dog achievements.

- Follow recommendations for the dog/puppy’s basic health care and veterinarian care, such as vaccine schedules, the use of certain medications, etc during the contract.

Most of all, a Guardian Home needs to be willing work with Sunrise AL in a close partnership to provide good breeding and pet care to the dog that will help improve this fabulous breed.

If you would like to be part of our Guardian Home program or have additional questions please contact us at 612-743-5968 or email us.

 

At Sunrise Australian Labradoodles we are dedicated in continuing to improve the breed according to the standards set by The Worldwide Australian Labradoodle Association. These dogs have been specially chosen to carry on the great quality of our program and they need wonderful families to raise them. Please call if you have a question about any of these pups or about our Guardian Home program.