How do I decide which breed is right for me?
We have a wide range of amazing breeds of Doodles available in our family network. So whatever kind of Doodle you are looking for – whether you’re looking for a jogging partner, a puppy to run around with the kids, or you want a snuggle bug for the couch – we have a Doodle for you! So first, I want you to start,find the breed you’re interested in and as you have questions, please reach out to us. We love to answer questions about breeds and help you find the furry family member that is best for you.
When Will I Get My Puppy?
Historically, at Crockett Doodles most families on our regular deposit waitlist receive an emailed announcement from which to choose their puppy within 1-2 months (on average) after placing their deposit; for several of our largest and smallest Doodle breeds, the wait time may be a little longer.
t is very difficult to predict an exact date or litter that you will be matched with. We cannot predict number of pups, genders or colors until a litter is born. Often families are registered for more than one breed or more than one size so the deposit list is constantly moving and changing as families at the top of the list are being fit into various litters. The greater your flexibility, the greater likelihood that you will be matched fairly quickly with a puppy. For example, if you’re fine with a male/female, any color, and a Bernedoodle or Cavapoo then you’ll likely be matched faster than someone who needs to have a 15 pound, dark red, petite mini Goldendoodle that has to be female. In general, the more specific your desire, the longer it will take for us to have that exact pup.
Of course if you’re ready to adopt right away, we also have immediately available pups on our Puppies tab of our website. If you see one there you love, simply click the blue “inquire now” button and submit the requested information. One of our Adoption Assistants will give you a call and can answer any questions you may have about that puppy.
If you’re not ready to adopt right away, the great benefit of joining our regular deposit list is that you will receive via email a first look at our upcoming puppies before they are posted on our Puppies tab of our website available to the general public.
Can You Explain Your Partner Home System?
Our family network is comprised of Partner Homes that serve in a variety of ways. We have three kinds of Partner Homes: Guardian Homes, Surrogate Homes and Transition Homes. Every family is unique, and these different roles within our family network allows flexibility for each family in raising and/or caring for our puppies. Many of our Partner Homes hold more than one role in our network. For example, a family may be both a Guardian Home and a Transition Home or a Surrogate Home may also be a Transition Home, etc.
Our parent dogs are privately owned family pets whose families have partnered with adoptable puppies. vanessa does not have a required breeding schedule for our family network and each family is free to decide when they want to breed their pet. vanessa has two dogs in his home, but most of the adoptable puppies program parent dogs are raised in Partner Homes – specifically Guardian Homes. We do not have parents dogs that “retire” from our breeding program who need a new home since our parent dogs are already family pets.
Most of our Partner Homes have children and many have other pets. While it is certainly not a prerequisite, the extra attention that a puppy receives being raised around children is a huge plus for their early socialization. Exposure to other animals also helps a puppy learn good canine social manners.
Our Partner Homes are carefully supervised and provided solid, on-going accountability to the high standards required to be a member of the adoptable puppies’ family network. Raising healthy puppies is hard work and requires a significant level of commitment for the entire family. We are very selective in choosing Partner Homes.
Guardian Homes: Our Guardian Homes are family or friends for whom vanessa has purchased a high-quality dog. They keep that dog in their home as their beloved pet and have occasional litters for the adoptable puppies’ program. Their puppies are born, raised and socialized with their family.
We oversee a few litters from each Guardian Home dog, where we take care of finding the exact right stud dog and supervise the breeding process. The puppies will be raised at the Guardian Home or may be raised at a Surrogate Home if the Guardian Home so chooses. We give a monetary gift back to the Guardian Home for allowing us to use their dog. The primary difference between a Guardian Home and a Surrogate Home is that the Guardian Home has the mom as their family pet and raises the puppies, while a Surrogate Home does not own the mom, but can be asked to care for the mom and raise the puppies if the Guardian Home is not able to do this because of family schedules, vacations, etc.
The adoptable puppies’ Team arranges for each of the puppies to go to Forever Homes, and the Partner Home, who helped raise the pups, gets much of the profit from the litter. Many of our Partner Home families live in beautiful Greenville, SC.
We encourage you to watch this video of one of our Guardian/Partner Homes that recently raised a litter of puppies.
Surrogate Homes: A Surrogate Home is a home that loves raising puppies occasionally. We work closely with these homes and pay these homes to partner with us. These puppies are raised under strict supervision from adoptable puppies, and in close harmony with the veterinary team. After raising a litter of pups and caring for mama at their home for 8 weeks, we help the Surrogate Home wean the puppies. The mama dog returns to her Guardian Home where she continues to be a beloved pet, and we take the 8 week old pups to a adoptable puppies Transition Home to transition into their new life as they meet their Forever Family. At Adoptable puppies, we value family-raised puppies that have been well-socialized so Surrogate Homes are also held to a high level of accountability even though they do not own the mama dog. Surrogate Homes do not have to be close family friends of the Adoptable puppies, are not given access to bank account information, and are not burdened with communication with Forever Families. Surrogate Homes are families who are willing to responsibly raise a few litters a year of pups at their house and are paid well for doing so.
Transition Homes: These homes are family members or friends who specifically care for puppies in the days immediately before Adoption Day and introduce our puppies to their Forever Homes. Adoptable puppies invests a significant amount of time, training and finances into our Transition Homes. They are trusted with the Adoptable puppies’ bank account information and collecting adoption fees from Forever Families on Adoption Day. Transition Homes work in close contact with the Adoptable puppies Team as the pups are matched to their Forever Homes and receive their final vet checks before Adoption Day. Transition Homes help their pups transition into better crate training, begin actively house-training, and help the pups become accustomed to being away from their mom (if the pups have transitioned from a Guardian or Surrogate Home). In our experience, it’s a healthier process for puppies if their transition away from their family to your home is gradual. Many of our Guardian Homes are also Transition Homes because they want to handle their own Adoption Days and take care of this last transition week with their own puppies. If a Guardian or Surrogate Home cannot do this (due to family schedules, conflicts, or just being uncomfortable with strangers coming to their home especially during Covid), they may ask a trained Transition Home to handle this process and their puppies’ Adoption Days.
Do You Do Health/Genetic Testing?
All of our parent dogs have been genetically tested for health issues pertaining to their breed and have been cleared and approved for breeding in our family network by their tests results and our licensed Veterinarian Team. We never allow a parent dog that has not been cleared by genetic testing and their veterinarian to be part of our family network. We are happy to provide these parent dog test results upon request by a family that has adopted their puppy from our network. We strive to have Doodles of excellent health, temperament, and appearance to match with wonderful Forever Homes.
We do not test for coat type or fading. The coat testing is not as much about genetic problems as it is trying to breed for wavy/curly coated Doodles more than straight-coated doodles. We have families who want all three types of Doodle coats.
For large breeds where hip dysplasia could become a concern, we do not allow any parent dog to be bred in our network that has any indicators of this health issue either through their genetic test results or with their veterinarian. We do not require our families to sedate their dogs for x-rays, but instead simply retire that parent dog from our network.
Note: Because of the wide variety of opposing opinions among licensed veterinarians regarding docking tails and removing dewclaws of puppies, we do not ask our families to dock tails or remove dewclaws unless their veterinarian determines it to be a medical necessity for the health of the puppy.
How Can I Be a Partner Home for Adoptable puppies?
We are so thankful for more than 150 families who have partnered with us (in various ways) to make Adoptabele puppies possible. We are currently accepting applications, but are not actively adding new Partner Homes right now as our supply and demand is balanced. We are glad to keep your application on file so we can reach out to you if/when we decide to move forward in adding more families in your area of the country.
Do You Arrange International Adoptions?
We’ve had many puppies adopted by families who live outside of the contiguous United States. We’ve found nations have a wide range of health and age requirements for a live animal to be brought into their country so we encourage you to reach out to the Department of Agriculture in your country to find out their guidelines. Our puppies are adopted by their families when they are typically around 8-10 weeks of age and are up-to-date on their vaccinations at that time.
Most countries require that a puppy has received the rabies’ vaccination before allowing that puppy to enter the country. The rabies’ vaccination is usually administered when a puppy is around 12-16 weeks of age. Because of this, we ask our international families to work with a friend or family member in the United States to adopt their puppy for them, and then keep their puppy until the puppy is old enough to have finished all of their booster vaccinations and receive the rabies’ shot. The vet that administers the rabies’ vaccination can provide the necessary paperwork required by most countries. Your friend or family member can then work with you to arrange travel for your puppy to you in your country.
We encourage you to also reach out to your preferred airline for their pet travel requirements. Currently, we are not able to make these travel arrangements for you and cannot hold your puppy until he/she is old enough to receive the required vaccines. If you live internationally and would like to adopt a puppies, please reach out to us with the name of your friend or family member in the contiguous United States who will be adopting your puppy for you and we’ll be glad to work together to help you adopt a puppy.
Will I Receive a List of Vaccinations That My Puppy Has Received?
On Adoption Day, you will receive your puppy’s Vaccination Record that will have listed the two vaccinations your puppy has received as well as the dates of administration. Typically, our puppies receive Neopar and Nobivac Canine 1-DAPPv (Canine Distemper Virus, Adenovirus 2, Parainfluenza Virus, Parvovirus). Also noted on the Vaccination Record will be the de-worming medications your puppy has received to date.
This Vaccination Record is designed for you to give to your vet at your puppy’s first visit so that the next required vaccinations can be scheduled. Most vets recommend a 12-week and a 16-week vaccination as well as other vaccinations for your puppy’s continued health. Our vaccinations are administered by family vets or by our breeders and health coordinators who are trained in the proper storage and administration of puppy vaccinations. This means your vet should not “re-administer” vaccinations already given to your puppy by Crockett Doodles. This increases the possibility of an allergic reaction, anaphylactic shock, or seizures due to over-vaccination. Your vet should simply continue to complete the series of vaccinations already begun by Crockett Doodles. The only vaccination required by law to be administered by a vet is the rabies’ vaccination. Your vet will need to administer the rabies’ vaccination to your puppy at the appropriate age which is typically when your pup is around 14 weeks of age.
What Will I Need for My Puppy?
We will start you off with several supplies, but the biggest item we recommend you purchase is a crate. We recommend choosing a size that will fit your puppy when full grown (the description of each crate should give you a weight range) and use the crate’s divider to make the crate smaller when your puppy is little. (Dogs are “den” animals and love to keep their “den” clean which really helps with the potty training process. If the crate is very big, they often create a “potty corner” which defeats one purpose of the crate which is to help complete the potty training process.)
