Guardian Homes

Cascadia Standard Poodles is accepting applications for guardian and co-ownership homes.  If you have ever considered or want to learn more about being a guardian or co-owner, please do message me to see a sample contract and discuss both the benefits and the drawbacks to know if it's right for your family.

Guardian families are a huge part of many programs, as they allow breeders to have a program while giving their breeding dogs a full life with their forever families.  Many top kennels have done this type of agreement for years without giving it a name but the term “Guardian” has been used recently in the last few years. Breeding dogs live as companions, therapy dogs, competition and performance dogs in loving homes with carefully selected guardians as their forever families. These families provide love and care to their furry family member, enjoy a beautiful Standard Poodle’s love in return, and play an important role in the preservation of the breed. 

In our Guardian Program, our potential future dame and sire puppies live and do life with their guardian (forever) families. After passing their pre-breeding health testing, genetic testing, conformation titles and performance titles,  they enter their breeding career. Females come back to us about a week before their puppy due date and stay approximately 8 weeks, until their puppies are weaned.   Males need to be available for occasional dates! We cover all expenses related to health testing and breeding and also cover the spay/neuter at the end of the breeding careers.  

In our experience this is a wonderful opportunity for our local families to have a "pick of the litter" puppy for a family pet without the expense.  We have found this to be a positive relationship for all; our guardian families enjoy the excitement of being a part of our breeding program, seeing the puppies of their very own guardian dog bring happiness to other families, and enjoy their own beautiful Standard Poodle. We place our guardian puppies with their family for a refundable fee of $1500, much less than the cost of a pet/companion puppy; however there are some requirements and responsibilities.  

If you are interested in enjoying the puppy process and acquiring a beautiful breeding quality Standard Poodle for your family please see if you meet the following requirements and submit a “Puppy Questionnaire”   Always feel free to contact us with questions!

• Live approximately within a 3 hour drive of Cascadia Standard Poodles (Bend Or.).

• Provide a loving and safe environment that includes a fenced play area.

• We prefer that the puppy is not home alone for extended periods of time during the day. Ideally either work from home, have the ability to take the dog to work with you, or otherwise have someone at home with the puppy (puppy needs to do life with people!).

• Agree to feed a high quality dog food approved by Cascadia Standard Poodles.

• Provide proper puppy socialization, basic obedience training, within a group class or individual trainer. Cascadia Standard Poodles provides an incentive. For every Canine Good Citizen, Trick Dog Title the Guardian earns with the puppy/dog, Breeder will give $25 as a thank you once the title has been recorded with AKC. For Performance titles (agility, obedience, scent work, Barn Hunt, NASDA, Dock Diving, etc), Breeder will give the guardian Novice level $50, Intermediate$100 and Advanced $200.

• Be responsible for the  puppy's basic health care and follow our guidelines for the vaccine schedule, type of vaccines, and the use or avoidance of certain medications, etc

• Carry basic Pet Medical Insurance, i.e: Healthy Paws, Trupanion, All State.

• Maintain and afford proper Standard Poodle grooming while in our breeding program, I will offer grooming services for all show trims and maintain while competing in Conformation.

• Provide exercise and lots of love and attention!