Guiding Principles & Accolades

Our parent dogs have all of the hip, elbow, eye, heart, thyroid, patella and DNA clearances recommended for their breed(s).  Our dogs are tested at or above the GANA Gold Level.

Parent dogs are continually evaluated and paired to produce puppies with the best temperament, health, intelligence, confidence, structure, style and beauty.

Unfortunately there is currently no way to test parent dogs for cancer risk.  We are hoping that will come in the future, and for now are taking the steps we can to reduce the risk in our puppies. 

See more on our Parent Dogs page.

We are proud to be Gold Level members of the Goldendoodle Association of North America (GANA).  We adhere to their highest level of health-testing requirements and code of ethics.

The Goldendoodle Association stays up to date on related research and advocates for  Goldendoodles, their owners and  best breeding practices.

 See our OTHER AWARDS  

and ratings below 

Every Acadia Goldendoodles puppy is born and raised inside our home — never in a separate kennel building. Depending on the litter, that might mean our breakfast nook, our solar room, or the dedicated nursery: what we think of as a "house within a house," built specifically for the dogs. 

It's fully disinfectable and designed around the physical safety, emotional wellbeing, and developmental needs of both puppies and mother dogs, with raised whelping beds, dog doors to dedicated safe yards, and everything needed for daily care and enrichment. Our family cares for every litter personally, with help from our experienced, qualified and valued employees.

Our dogs live with us on 35 acres near Acadia National Park.  They hike, swim, run through the woods and relax with us.​  They eat foods, treats and supplements exclusively from  Life's Abundance, TLC, PawTree, NuVet, Maxi-Vet, and our own line of supplements, Acadia Canine.  

We believe in keeping dogs fit, so using just the right amount of high-quality food is important.  We make sure they get the physical and mental exercise they need to thrive.

Each of our puppies is handled daily starting at birth, and receives ENS treatments from the third through the sixteenth day of life.  The result is an increased capacity that positively affects the dog for life and includes:

• Cardio-vascular improvement
•  Stronger adrenal glands
• More tolerance to stress  
• Greater resistance to disease 
• Increased ability to learn 

We raise our puppies using a combination of the Avidog/Good Dog, Puppy Culture and Empowered Puppy protocols with adaptations based on experience and new science. We are constantly learning and making improvements to our process, as more is discovered about puppy development. 

Our puppies are well socialized, started on house training and comfortable in crates when they go to their new homes.  

Our puppies are puppy-pad trained starting at two weeks of age.  They learn to use a  dog door at 4 - 6 weeks of age. 

By the time they go home, they are going outside to potty reliably.  

All you need to do is get them used to YOUR home/yard/dog-door, stick to a schedule, and watch them closely!!

Acadia Goldendoodles holds Maine State Kennel License #F1601 and Town of Tremont Municipal Kennel License #K7289. 

Every space where we keep dogs or puppies — including our in-home nursery — is inspected annually by the State Animal Welfare Inspector. This is a real, meaningful standard: an ordinary living-room or bedroom whelping box setup would not meet it. 

Our nursery space was purpose-built to meet and exceed these requirements, which is part of why it looks the way it does. We have modified our solar room and breakfast nook to meet the requirements.

An extremely wide range of people/families provide excellent homes for dogs.  Therefore, we will NOT discriminate on the basis of color, national origin, sex, religion, age, or anything else.  We are dedicated to finding loving homes for our puppies where they will thrive and bring joy to their people.

We are also committed to practicing anti-racism, resisting tyranny and promoting social justice in both our business and our personal lives.

Due to unsettling current events, we have temporarily diverted the majority of our support to the American Civil Liberties Union

We have not abandoned our favorites below, and hope to get back to larger contributions in the future. 

Friends of Acadia

Allied Whale

College of the Atlantic

Maine People's Alliance 

To minimize our impact on the planet, we compost, recycle, drive an electric car when possible, avoid plastics and use cloth instead of paper whenever possible.  

We are passionate about safe, premium nutrition for our own dogs because of the HUGE positive effect we have seen.  

While you are free to use any food or type of diet you choose, we do share our dietary recommendations with you.  If you choose to follow these recommendations, the health warranty is automatically extended to 36-months.

Maine Kennel License  #F1601

Certified GANA Gold-Level &

AKC Registered Parent dogs

You don't have time to stay up-to-date on every new development in the canine world.  So, we do it for you. You can call and ask about any issue that comes up during the life of your dog.  

When we get a question from multiple families, we try to put together an informative answer and make a blog post about it.  You can find all the posts on our "BLOGS" page.  

Other Dog Blogs

The Healthy, Happy Dog and Your Dog Advisor

Podcasts

The Doodle Pro Podcast and the Puppy Potluck Podcast

We begin and end with our main mission, so will repeat it here.  Our mission is to produce and raise the best, healthiest puppies possible.  The decisions and choices we make when breeding, raising puppies and dogs, working with customers, conducting business, making purchases and even in much of our personal lives, is based on this mission. 

We have been awarded the Gold Level certification for health testing from the Goldendoodle Association.

Our 5-star Rating with Google makes us especially happy, because these are ratings and reviews completed by our customers, the reason we do this!

We are a proud Gold Circle Partner of The Doodle Pro® Academy — raising the standard for Doodle families.

We are honored to have been chosen twice to partner with Make-a-Wish, Maine to make wishes come true!

 Megan has been interviewed about Goldendoodles for 2 articles on Rover.com, and about her success as a breeder on the Honest Dog Breeder Podcast

We Love Doodles rated us #1 in the State of Maine

Devoted to Dog also awarded us their number one rating for Goldendoodle breeders in the beautiful state of Maine.

Doodle Doods included us on their list of ethical doodle breeders.