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Preparing for the Realities of Goldendoodle Puppy Ownership - Education is Key! You can see our available red Goldendoodle puppies on our website at  red Goldendoodle Puppies for Sale . Irish Goldendoodle Puppy from Sunshine Acres  Over the last several years, we as Americans, Canadians, etc, have been blessed with a thing called "Immediate Gratification".  Although this has been great, it has also made us impatient at times. To raise a puppy, patience is one of the first ingredients we need.  Unlike many items we may buy at the local super store, puppies do not come out of the box, install batteries, and they are ready to go. Goldendoodle puppies do, however, love to eat disgusting things, roll in smelly things, chew on everything, get sick, and need moderate exercise.  Not much different than most puppies. Being prepared before your puppy comes int

Sunshine Acre's Irish Goldendoodle Puppies  Microchipping- Why is it vital for Goldendoodle puppies to have a microchip? One in three pets will go missing at some point during its life.  While an ID tag can help reunite a dog with its family, if the tag falls off or become unreadable, it is useless.  A microchip is a permanent ID that can never be removed or become impossible to read.  The microchip is implanted over the dogs shoulder blades and is about 1/8 inch wide.  Shaped like a grain of rice, this secure microchip is guaranteed for the life of your Goldendoodle . If your lost dog should be found and taken to a shelter, vet or other pet rescue group, the first thing that will be checked for is a microchip.  A scanner is passed over the pets shoulder area, sending out a radio wave signal to the chip in less than a second.  The pet feels nothing.  When a chip number appears on the scanner  this number can then be used to reunite your pet with you:) The Goldendoodle pu

Sunshine Acre's Beginning Although Michael grew up on a family farm in Iowa, and was involved in Agriculture, his first experience with genetics was in his undergraduate research at Iowa State University with Dr. Walt Fehr.  Genetics quickly became an interest to Michael in this work.   In 2000 he located on a rural acreage at our present location near Wolcott , Indiana.  It was then the Doodle dream was conceived and began to materialize.   At this time, there were very few hybrid breeds of dogs available, as the majority of breeders focused only on purebred breeds.  Michael’s interest in genetics led to him deciding to raise a family pet and therapy dog from lines that had been strictly selected for good health, outstanding temperament and trainability that was not a purebred, but a hybrid.   Interestingly, at this time, there were very few Goldendoodle breeders in the U.S, especially in the mid-west.  Few people had even heard of a “Doodle”.  Michael beg

WELCOME TO Sunshine Acres and  Doodle Puppy.com Sunshine Acres has been raising the Goldendoodle since 2002.  Our Goldendoodle puppies are socialized in a family setting following techniques taught by Jan Fennell, The Dog Listener. We own both of our puppies parents, and in most cases, owned their grandparents and great-grandparents as well. Each of our red Goldendoodle puppies for sale  comes with a three year health guarantee and a puppy care package.  They are current on their vaccinations and have been given the best of preventative veterinary care.   Raising Goldendoodles is our family project, as well as a family love.   Our red Goldendoodle puppies are socialized with our children and handled individually every day as we know how the trainability and intelligence of a puppy is directly linked to what their early exposures and imprinting have been. Our children and the puppies enjoy interacting with one another.  Since Michael has compl