Why We Are Different | Silverlake Doodles

Why Silverlake Labradoodles?

We are committed to healthy happy dogs.

Our Dogs Have Been:

Microchipped

Dewormed

First Set of Vaccines Completed

Two Year Health Guaranteed

Our biggest goal is to provide you with some of the best Doodle puppies around. Not only do we health test all of our adults, but our puppies go through extensive socialization and desensitization to ensure they are going to be well rounded, social, confident and healthy minded dogs when they grow up. From the time they are born up to the time they go home with you at 9 weeks old, we are constantly handling them, training them, and socializing them.

We now almost exactly follow their puppy raising program to give you the best socially and mentally well rounded started puppies possible.

Below is an example of our puppy raising program:

From the age of 3 days old to 4 weeks old they go through an intense but simple Early Neural Stimulation program.
Each day we practice “back time” with each puppy, where we gently hold them on their back and rub their belly to help them learn to be submissive and calm.
At 3 weeks old they are started on a very unique potty training program, and are usually 80% potty trained before they go to your home.
From 4 weeks to 9 weeks old we slowly get them to meet 100 people and kids to ensure they are very social puppies.
At 7 weeks old they take Volhard’s Puppy Aptitude Test, so we can match each puppy’s temperament to the right home for them.
They are given a bath each week to help teach them patience and desensitize them to being handled, we also clean their ears and clip their nails during bath time.
From 4 weeks to 9 weeks we are constantly making loud, sharp, banging noises in our house and in the puppy room to help them not be afraid of any sudden noises.
From 4 weeks to 9 weeks we are constantly adding new objects and obstacles to their puppy room (tunnels, stairs, ramps, platforms, etc) to teach them confidence and help them to not be afraid of new objects.
They are taken on weekly care rides to help desensitize them to the car, and help to make sure they don’t grow up to become car sick.
As they get older, we slowly open their world up to outside and let them explore on their own to help build their self esteem and get them used to everything outside.
They are constantly socialized around many different dogs to help them become very dog social as they get older (the dogs they are socialized with are always very dog friendly and up to date on their vaccines).
From 7 weeks to 9 weeks they are started on crate training, to help make crate training much easier when they go home with you.
From 4 weeks to 9 weeks we teach the puppies to come when called (not by name, but to a unique noise like shaking keys, clapping, or kissing noises).
They are fed a very healthy and holistic diet of Taste of the Wild’s Puppy formula with a mixture of OC Raw’s raw diet. This will help them develop properly as they grow. (Nutrition is one of the most important things to us, please visit our Nutrition page to learn more about the foods we feed and why)
And much much more!