Our Story

My husband and I began a search in the fall of 2004 for a service dog to assist my husband in his daily activities.  Matt is a C5-C6 quadriplegic due to a motorcycle accident in 2001.  Being partial to Labrador Retrievers, I began to search for organizations that used Labs in their training programs.

My husband, on the other hand, was interested in a virtually non-shedding breed in order to minimize all the extra housework for me associated with a shedding dog (he’s such a sweetie!).  We searched in vain for the PERFECT dog, and Voila!

The Australian Multi-Generation Labradoodle was the answer to our prayers!

Because we were unable to find a service dog organization that trained Labradoodles exclusively, we knew our chances would be slim for Matt to be matched with a Multi-Gen.  

In addition, Australian Labradoodles are termed "hypoallergenic" having had great success with allergy and asthma sufferers.  Therefore, persons with allergies are given first priority for Labradoodles. 

There are no allergy problems in our family so we decided we'd better take matters into our own hands if we wanted an Australian Labradoodle assistance dog:

Our first goal was to adopt an Australian Labradoodle and train our own service dog for Matt.

Our mission is to produce a superior line of Australian Multi-Generation Labradoodles much like the founder of the breed, Wally Conran of Australia, with an extraordinary talent for assisting people with disabilities.

Our vision is to develop a training organization for Labradoodle assistance dogs.

The beginning of our first dream came true when we brought eight-week-old Downunder’s Scooby Doodle Doo home to live with us in May, 2005.

Scooby has exceeded our wildest expectations! Visit our Doodles on Duty Page (the name we have chosen for our training program)  to learn all about our wonderful guy and his training triumphs!
 
In order to further our mission, we are now offering Scooby for breedings to approved multi-generation bitches and will soon expand our breeding program when we find the perfect ladies to add to our foundation stock.

We plan on training these ladies to also serve as wheelchair assistance dogs in honor of my husband Matt’s daily struggle with life as a quadriplegic.  Upon breeding retirement (approximately at age 5), these girls will be donated to appropriate, approved people who will benefit from owning an assistance dog.