There is lots of information here...
Please visit 'The Process' page for an overview of what getting a puppy from me looks like from start to finish.
Also visit the 'Dog Care' page to learn about our hands on and natural approach to breeding.
Embark Vet Tested
I have tested all parent dogs and ensure that they can not mate and pass down anything adverse to their puppies. I understand much of the science of Embark's various screenings and won't ever breed dogs willingly that don't produce clear puppies. I make the parent's health results available to you immediately after taking a deposit for a particular puppy or waitlist. I can also share them with you even prior to a deposit upon request!
Coming in 2027...
I will be making an upgrade and offering a full panel Embark DNA test kit to each puppy family for additional $50 which you can use at home and send in the mail. These kits normally cost $140-$200 if purchased on your own. It must be sent in to the company to await the full results which can take 4-6 weeks. You will receive in-depth access on the website of the results as well as access to the company advisors. You will learn unique traits of your dog and gain peace of mind knowing that your puppy is genetically healthy and the breed you expected!
2-4 Year Genetic Health Guarantee
What exactly is a puppy Health Guarantee anyways since no one wants to return their puppy after falling in love!? It is assurance to you that your puppy's breeder is confident in the genetic health of these dogs. My guarantee is a full refund and you keep puppy kind. Verbiage is detailed on the MA Bill of Sale that we will both sign to make it legally binding. An example link to review the Bill of Sale is below.
There are a few conditions but they are reasonable. The guarantee is either two or four years depending on the condition you choose: keeping puppy on the NuVet Plus K-9 Wafer daily multivitamins until either 1 year old or 2 years old (full grown and then fully adult). These vitamins are not merely synthetic but include healthy whole food supplemental ingredients to boost immunity and cellular health. I can't make owners choose the best diet (RAW food), so to me this is a way to ensure the puppy is getting this healthy start. Order code and ingredients info will be provided. Here is a link to the product.
The second condition is to agree not to Neuter or Spay your puppy until 1 year old. This is solely for the health of your puppy. 6 months has been a decades long regular practice but this is largely being abandoned by most vets now a-days. Pre-puberty spaying is not safe since hormones drive bone development and interrupting hormonal production necessary for 3 For a female puppy this means she will go through her first silent cycle and her second REAL heat cycle. Since she will spot bleed during that time she will lick to clean herself. I encourage a washable velcro diaper with feminine pad liner to prevent stains on where she sits.
We are starting with a great breed already....Cavapoos are known to be genetically healthy since they are mixed and not purebreeds at risk of passing down so many ailments as their parent breeds the Cavalier and Poodle do (more so the Cavalier King Charles is the concern). Hybrid Vigor is a term that really amounts to meaning mathematically lucky. Breeds from two different gene pools are not mathematically as likely to pass down the problems. For some reason Cavapoos benefit more so from this hybrid vigor than other mixed breeds. To me it is the stamp of God saying to "Breed Cavapoos!". We don't see heart problems in cavapoos, nor hip problem, nor thyroid nor eye. So we are starting with an already genetically lucky mixed breed. I feed a raw diet to ensure proper growth and development and also the superior health of my mother dogs who continue to whelp healthy litters and not jeopardize their own vibrant health!
If any genetic health issue becomes detected by a veterinarian doctor within the first two years of having puppy then you receive up to a full refund and you keep puppy. Must be accompanied by a written statement from primary vet that said disease was passed down by parents. The condition for this guarantee is keeping your puppy on NuVet K-9 Plus Wafer Vitamins until 1 yr old (full grown). If you continue the vitamins until 2 years old (fully adult) then the 2 year increases to a 4 year health guarantee.
* Any settlement will require a signed notice of disclosure typical of any regular settlement.
These are the best vitamins I know of to ensure immune support which is so vital for a puppy's new life facing new environments and various exposures. They are largely food based not just synthetic vitamins and fillers.
Thus far we have never had to cash in on this health guarantee. This is for your peace of mind. We take great care to ensure health via testing, diet and gentle care.
What's Included?
Happy Transition Assistance and Support
I care about your family and your new puppy's transition to your home! That's why from the very first contact I am available to educate you and help you feel comfortable with all of your questions and concerns. I generously give of my time to share my knowledge with you. I have organized a great welcome package sent to both your email and text with various helpful get ready for puppy information within 24 hours of placing a deposit. These include gear shopping lists with convenient links to Amazon, a helpful bring puppy home schedule/guide, List of Care Package Items, Natural Vet Care Precautions Article, Order links to raw food wholesaler and vitamins, Training Videos and more! After looking over all the info I send you may feel free to contact me with any further questions you have. I am happy to help you get ready for Gotcha Day!
After bringing puppy home the first few days can be the most challenging and I am here to help you. You deserve and NEED to sleep. I can help with that! You might be unsure of how to respond to negative behavior. I can coach you into that. You might need support with the proper crate training techniques....I can and will help you with that! I am happy to be available via phone call, text, or email and am known to reply quickly most of the time.... I will keep in touch at certain intervals. I try to reach out within a few days, a week, a couple months and at 1 year old. I love to see the puppies grow via pictures and any brief update of happening that you are willing to share. I covet google reviews so that others can find their forever cavapoo puppy from my family business so that is all the thank you I really need or want! And a big thank you to you!!!
Care Package
I provide you and your new puppy with what I consider some very helpful and convenient "Have on Hands" items that I believe YOU AND YOUR PUPPY will enjoy!!!
1. PUPPY COLLAR - Difficult to find this size
2. LEASH - Can keep as a backup in the car
3. POOP DISPENSER with one BAG refill roll
4. COLLAPSIBLE WATER BOWL - for glove compartment
5. SHORT RIBBON "HOUSE LEAD"
6. TUG TOY - Playing Tug is so important!
7. BALL - for fetch
8. SQUEAK TOY - Oh the fun!
9. BELL with instructions - For Potty Training
10. TOOTHBRUSH
11. YAK CHEW (Hard cheese from milk of a yak for teething)
12. VITAMINS - 5 day Sample pack NUVET PLUS WAFERS
13. SPIRULINA - samples
14. MINTIES Dental Chews - samples
15. TRAINING TREATS - (non crumble type) - samples
16. RAW FOOD - 5 or more Days of Frozen Servings
17. PRINTED COPY OF PUPPY DAILY SCHEDULE
18. LAMINATED POTTY REMINDERS
UPGRADED CARE PACK items COMING for 2027!!!...
19. BUFFALO HORN
20. ANTLER
21. CALMING PEANUT BUTTER
22. SNUGGLE PUPPY!
23. EMBARK FULL PANEL DNA GENETIC TEST including for Breed Genes, Traits and Health Screening!!! ( To be swabbed and sent out by you once bringing puppy home )
Schedule
No need to print...I will give you a copy
Microchipping
I will microchip your puppy on Gotcha Day but it will need to be registered by you with your personal information for a one time fee of $35 in order for it to be active. This is not a GPS tracker although it is helpful in the event that a dog was lost and the collar ID tag was not present or removed. Both the police and any vet can scan these chips and see your contact info. It also works against theft. All vets are trained to scan the chip and match info with an owner's ID, and to alert the registry company if fraud is found. Chips are also a handy way to store your pet's vet records to be instantly used at any other vet. This is especially handy for those travelling between homes if living in two separate states throughout the year.
Potty Training
I highly recommend MCCAAN Dog Training videos!
'Your Complete Guide To Potty Training'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5xoq6tbwCM&t=809s
Taking Your Puppy Home First Day - VIDEO
https://youtu.be/oT-Kju2-HqM
Your puppy will have been crate training to do their dues outside starting at 5-6 wks old. We use an outdoor potty-loo for middle of the night potty trips and also for rainy days. All other dues will be done outside on the grass or snow. We use the word phrase "Pee Pee Pooootty...." long and drawn out. This sets the command association with their peeing action so that you can use it with expectation when you get your puppy. The two weeks of intensive crate training is a "jump start" to your training process. i do not claim to have potty trained your puppy. This is impossible. Your puppy needs to become accustomed to your home environment. I have simply given puppy a way to learn how to hold it and exercise that muscle like a child in a car. I have also given them that fresh start into the real world so to speak so you are not getting a puppy right from a whelping box who pees at will without a thought and has no exposure to the outdoors and a routine. The one thing we do really well here is a rigorous routine which is absolutely unique to other breeders even those who claim to be training their puppies. We will provide a small bell you can hang at the regular exit door at your house if you choose to try to implement it although we do NOT do bell training here. Bell comes with instructions.
I do not believe in indoor potty training unless in a high rise apartment or if medically necessary because of a personal handicap yourself. You must set your puppy up for success and continue the good start i gave your puppy absolutely must involve continuing the crate use. A crate is not cruel. It is a toll and one that mimics the den in nature....a dog still has outdoor instincts. When used correctly, a crate becomes a safe warm, happy place where puppy feels proud to be in, safe and rested and calm in. I send everyone an awesome YouTube dog training channel with great videos on crate training!
Healthy Beginnings
We take pride in raising our doggies like the royal princes and princesses that they are.
By feeding our dogs a Raw Diet, void of kibble and full of healthy supplementation,
we believe they are healthier and therefore happier and smarter for it!
Our dogs eat a raw diet complete in minerals, vitamins, protein, fat and carbohydrates.
They eat a homemade formula of food grade chicken, bone, and organ meats - livers, heart, kidney or gizzards - as well as raw fruits and veggies such as berries and leafy greens, ground flaxseed and spirulina powder. We also make sure to offer only filtered spring water to avoid possible public water concerns.
When your puppy weans from Momma, we start feeding a fresh homemade diet.
Slowly introducing (while puppy is still feeding on momma's milk) a puppy formula of goats milk and raw egg. At 4 weeks they start on a fine ground puppy formula identical to their parents but in a no-chew mush form. Sometime during the 6th to 7th week we start them on the same recipe but less ground so they use their new set of teeth to chew it! All of our puppies have done very well transitioning to this food! And they do fine transitioning to conventional diets at their new homes as well! They will start on chewable puppy vitamins at around 6 weeks old.
If you keep your puppy on Nuvet Plus Canine wafers for their first year
then we can therefore gladly offer a 1 year genetic guarantee.
(Any requests of the sort must be accompanied by veterinarian records.)
Our dogs and puppies supplement with Spirulina, flaxseed, and occasional probiotics as well. Yet, even with all that good stuff, they also take their multivitamins every day! We start your puppy on NuVet Canine Plus multivitamins as "treats" once fully weaned from Momma! We will send you home with a few days supply. We recommend them for all of our pups especially up until 1 years old! That is the most crucial time - during their growth and developing immune systems! Weaning from Mom, then facing the BIG transition home is a really BIG deal to any newborn puppy! Despite receiving proper love and care, alas they will still face stress in various ways. Everything they have known suddenly gets taken from them;
their Momma, their close siblings and all their human care takers! They will also be facing a new environment in your own yard and possible other pets. Giving supplemental support has proven to help with all this change by supporting their stress levels and immune systems as well as continues to provide the nutrients they are used to having.
Why a Raw Diet?
Simply because it is absolutely what all canines are supposed to eat! But more importantly because Capaoos are notorious for being picky eaters... and not because they are snobby or weird, its because they have more sensitive digestive or G! tracts than other breeds. These dogs are picky eaters because of their tummy sensitivities. It is not true for 100% of cavapoos but in my experience only 1 out of 10 cavapoos are not picky or do not show adverse reactions to foods. This means you are signing up for a breed that needs to have a diet sit well with their tummies. There IS NO OTHER BETTER DIET ANYWHERE than a properly formulated raw food diet based on B.A.R.F. ratios. BARF stands for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food. It is the ratio that wild dogs eat raw in the wild, that being a whole animal of prey. A whole rabbit for instance or chicken for that matter is always made up of 80% protein, 10% bone (minerals), 5% fat, and 5% organ meats (vitamins). A properly Formulated Raw Food is going to make your dog happy and healthy. Conversely a hodge-podge raw diet that is not complete is very very dangerous for your dog and can even cause organ failure. That's why vets are now helpful to ensure that raw diets are being fed appropriately. Only vets who own and run their own practices are allowed to prescribe or even recommend raw and they definitely do, but most vets are corporate or private equity owned (think $$$ motivated). Many vets agree with raw but are not at leisure to say so. Yet raw is now in every pet food store everywhere and it is not going anywhere, rather it is taking over and dogs are getting healthier everywhere, yay!
We go to great lengths to start your pup off right onto our own special ground meat formula. Puppies LOVE this food and eat it very quickly. Puppies have very firm stool eating this food which indicates great digestion! A dog's poop smells much less offensive on raw food. Many dogs on puppy kibble grow too rapidly and their structure is not dense and solid and they become prone to back disease and prone to injury. The dry puppy food is highly supplemented and those puppies are at highest risk actually. Slow dense bone growth is ideal. It is the slow growth that raw provides that builds denser and stronger bones and ligaments. when I give the full grown size estimates at 6 weeks old, it is based on a raw diet development. I have an accurate track record for puppies full grown weight estimates to be within a pound. If a puppy goes on highly supplemented kibble they sometimes grow larger than I expected by a few pounds. At face value this might seem good but in reality its not. Vet doctors are open about ow highly supplemented puppy diets are causing skeletal issues.
Food for thought :
Did you know that in the early years of Kibble (dry dog food) that STEROIDS were actually an ingredient!!??? Can you believe that?! They wanted to make sure this stuff could actually grow DOGS! Now a days what's wrong with kibble isn't what's IN the kibble per say, its much more the FORM that the ingredients are in. Dry food starts with what they should meat, but it just cant get it right. They have to add synthetic vitamins and minerals. And cook it all to death. Literally. Raw has no synthetic supplements, rather all necessary vital nutrients are supplied directly from the food source ingredients. Kibble is a highly processed food, with NOTHING fresh in it. Please imagine eating nothing fresh every single day of YOUR entire life!!! no wonder why the dog food industry is now inundated with Fresh Food "Toppers' designed to go on top of the food in small amounts and mixed in, to encourage and trick your dog into eating everything in it's bowl. Dry food is typically produced with HIGH HEAT and I mean like 600 degrees heat, TRIPLE COOKED and then pressure extracted just like cheerios cereal into shapes. This is not good. Not at all. And your poor sad dog will eat it for 2 weeks then turn and walk away from his/her bowl. Owners then try to switch to a better kibble just to find the same problem. Taste might have changed but that doesn't keep your dog's interest very long. The next option on the market is Fresh Cooked Food like homemade or teh popular widely known Farmer's Dog. I have seen some cavapoos tolerate this and many dog breeds DO, but many, many, cavapoos don't even tolerate this. I believe it's a much better option than dry food processed stuff, but inferior to what nature intended... There are no hot cooked meals on a stove in nature! There is fresh and living enzymes, even probiotics, living nutrients found in raw meat, raw bone and raw organs. Dogs are carnivores by nature. Put a raw steak in front of your dog and watch him be the happiest he has ever been. These are readily available nutrients that a canine's body optimally absorbs into the cellular level. There simply isn't a diet that is superior to this raw diet!
Veterinarian Wellness
Please SCHEDULE a VET APPOINTMENT ASAP
It is common for a new patient to have difficulty scheduling a readily available appointment at a new veterinarian office. More times than not vet offices are scheduling 1 month out into the future, so please schedule a vet appointment about 2 months in advance. The best way to find a good vet is to look at the quantity of 5 star reviews. The best vets in my opinion are privately owned by the practicing vets but those are few and far between. The other types are Corporate owned, Private Equity owned, or publicly owned. There are some vets stuck in the past and not yet adopting newer better practices, old school thinkers so to speak. There are a vast amounts of conflicts of interest and plain old money focusing going on. I can help you avoid vet practices that are not in your best interest. A good vet should be willing and readily open to inform and teach you things as well as respect your decisions to receive the recommended care or not. No services should be forced or felt like they are being forced upon you. You have a choice since you pay THEM for their service to you. I like to empower people to advocate for their pet and glean the most they can out of the vet and patient experience. Too many pet owners are sadly being taken advantage of.
Application?
We take care to ensure our puppies find the right homes..... While we believe every home deserves a great dog, we also want to see our puppies in the right homes where they will receive top notch care and attention to their wellbeing - Their health, minds and hearts! Although we do not have an application process for interested buyers, we do vet those buyers interested using keen judgement. We like to know why you want a puppy and also the type of commitment you are ready to assume owning your furever pet! These two factors have proved very well at satisfying our sense of who can adopt one of our puppies!!!
Puppy Picking Process
You may choose a particular pup when the litter is 5-6 wks old to ensure you are receiving the character traits best matched just for you!!! Puppies develop slowly for the first 5 wks and then quickly after that! Sometimes someone sees a particular pup and just knows that pup is meant to be their own! I understand and can certainly accommodate those requests after 5 wks of age. Meaning, I don't have to meet you in person, only meet you on the telephone to learn more about you and your family! Reservations will be in order of first come first served. You may change your mind or choose any other pup that's available at that time. You may come meet the pups as early as 3 wks old. That is when they will have their eyes open and can hear. With that being said you may want to wait to visit until 5 wks so you can interact with them more and see their character more clearly. By then they will have entered the "play" stage and can be held. So please consider all of this!
Waiting List
See a Puppy you absolutely adore? But maybe you are not ready this time of the year for bringing one home? Or that particular puppy is taken by someone already? DON'T FRET! You can join the waiting list for Upcoming or Future litters of precious Cavapoo puppies just like the ones you see here! $200 reserves you a spot in line for your choice of puppy. We will arrange with you what best describes what type of puppy you want and your desired time of year. You will have pick of the litter based on the length of people on the waiting list for that litter. Your $200 deposit to reserve will apply towards the full cost of the puppy. Yet, If for some reason you decide to not choose a puppy from us, you shall forfeit your deposit, unfortunately.
Payments
I take a $200 deposit that applies to the price for any particular puppy or for getting on a future waitlist. Payments for deposits can be made easily through Venmo, credit card over the phone (with a $7.00 processing fee) or check in the mail although I highly discourage this for cohesive processing of your information into my calendar, notes, waitlists files and for receiving all the helpful welcome info I send along after taking a deposit. I can also take paypal but prefer not to. Full price remainder due at puppy pick up day can be paid as Cash, Cashier's written bank check to Pratt Meadow Puppies or Credit Card with a 3% processing fee (any card).