A quick Note from George: I’m sure you have run into people that their lives revolves around someone or something. Well that’s us, our passion is dogs. With that being said read on.
I guess you could say that we have had dogs all of our life, grown up with them. The only times I can remember not having one under foot was when I was in the Army, and a short period of time when we lived in a town house right after we moved to NC from upstate NY.
We started raising Airedales (super show dogs) back in the early 1960 ‘s on Long Island. We did shows and had a pet line of dogs. At that time we were active in several local kennel clubs and training centers.
When we moved upstate NY to our new farm the Airedales just didn’t fit so we got involved with field dogs like Irish Setters, English Setters and of course Labs.
As we got older and the snow and cold got deeper and colder we called it quits and moved to NC. Here we lived in town till we decided where we wanted to settle. So the dog’s could not come with us. Believe me, it was hard giving them up.
After a while we found a small place in Snow Camp and the dogs came. That’s where the rest of the story begins. I’ll let Georgette tell the rest of it.
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From Georgette Lynn:
SDP Kennels was founded in 2005 when I fell in love with the Labradoodle. I am a service dog trainer and I was contacted by a client that was looking for a dog that she could have trained for mobile assistance. She did not want another poodle. She asked if I knew of any dog that might work for her. I had heard of Labradoodles, but I told her that I would do some research and let her know my findings.
That is what started my interest in Labradoodles. I was not able to find a Labradoodle in close proximity to either the client or myself, or one that was a price that she could afford. That is when I started to look into breeding them with my Dad. The rest, as they say, is history.
I had my first litter of Labradoodles on March 7, 2006. The mother was a black lab, Serendipity (Sere), who was and still is my own service dog. The father then was a standard poodle named Casey. He came from another breeder. Ten great puppies were born in that litter. Three went into service work.
Since then we have expanded and have brought in other Labradoodles from registered kennels. We now only breed F2B and mulitgens. We have 3-4 litters a year, and our goal is to have several puppies from each litter go into service work. Since the S.D.P. Kennels were started, we have had at least 10 of our dogs doing full time service work and a number that are currently in training.
Our puppies are born in our house or out in a specially built whelping house. Whether they are born in our house or out in the whelping house, they get all the love and attention that I can give them. I’m a stay-at-home dog mom. So my day is spent with our dogs/puppies, but I do have help with their routine care. My father is the one who does most of the day to day care of our adult dogs in the kennels. I do the day to day care for our house dogs. That gives me the time that I need to spend with our puppies when we have them. When we don’t have young puppies, I spend my time grooming our dogs and training any older puppies that we might have, as well as working with the adults just to keep up our training.
NOTE: I have just implemented the “Super Dog Program” with our puppies. The program starts when the puppies are 3 days old and will continue until the puppies are 19 days old. It is generally agreed that genetics account for about 35% of a dogs performance and the remaining 65% is attributed to environment and training. I hope that by performing these 5 exercises for a few moments a day, I will increase their ability to learn, perform, handle stress, and remain healthy in the future. We also do two other tests with our puppies. They are “The Paws Working Dog Evaluation ” and the “The Puppy Aptitude Test.” Both of these tests help me make the best choice of where to place our puppies.
Georgette
