Application & Deposit
We can't control the number or gender of puppies in each litter. If your perfect puppy is not available in a litter, you can role your deposit to the next litter. Reservations are based on the order of deposits received.
The puppy must be paid for in full before pick-up day. We accept payments through Venmo, check (deposits only), cash, or Good Dog. Good Dog is the safest way to pay as they offer financial protection for us and our adopting families. They offer you the choice to insure your payment against fraud or not. To insure your payment, they do charge a fee. If making a final payment by check, the check must be received by Sweet Breeze Doodles two weeks (14 days) prior to adopter’s receipt of the puppy.
Selection Process & Going Home
We will share videos and images of all puppies throughout the time they are with us on Instagram and Facebook. Raising puppies is a lot of work, but our goal is to post pictures and/or videos at least once per week. We want you to see the puppies up close in pictures, and also interacting with each other in videos so you get a feel for their individual personalities and how and where they've been raised.
Puppy selection will happen on go-home day. We want to give each puppy's personality a chance to develop, and have temperament tests and vet well-checks done before homes are chosen. We will share all this information with you at about 7 1/2 weeks. Selection will be in the order in which deposits are received on go-home day.
We reserve the right to the first two choices in each litter in case we want to add to our breeding program.
Puppies can go home at 8 weeks of age. We know how excited you are to welcome your new family member home, but puppies need their litter and mother to teach them many things, for example, bite inhibition. The socialization that happens between litter-mates and between a puppy and its mother is irreplaceable. Therefore, we can't send any puppies home before they are 8 weeks old.
If you are picking your puppy up from us, we hope the entire family comes to meet their new family member. If your puppy needs to be shipped to you, we use flight nannies and you would have to pick your puppy up from an airport near you. We do not send puppies in cargo, only in the passenger cabin with an escort. You can also meet us at the Austin, Tx airport if you want to fly in to pick up your puppy.
All puppies will be sent home with the following.
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Health records
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Product samples
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A free month of pet insurance
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Toys
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A blanket that smells like your puppy's litter mates
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Training tips and information on puppy well-checks, as well as its micro-chip information.
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A lifetime of support from us
We can hold the puppy you have selected beyond the age of 8 weeks. A $25/day fee applies to cover the cost of food, care, and extra time spent training your puppy.
Want to Take Home a Trained Puppy?
If you live in the Austin, TX area, we recommend the following trainers who will work with you and your dog to help them become the perfect family member and to help you to become the best dog owner you can possibly be. You can put your puppy in training the day you take your puppy home, or you can get to know your puppy and figure out where the trouble areas are and then take them to a trainer who can work on those specific areas. (If you live outside the Austin area, we may be able to come up with some trainers' names for you by asking the trainers we recommend if they are aware of any fantastic trainers in your area.)
Koinonia Dogs - They come to your home to train your dog in its environment, addressing problems when and where they occur. We have personally worked with Leighann and she is amazing with both dogs and people.
Austin Dog Zone - They offer a board and train, as well as a day training package. You drop your puppy off in the morning and pick up in the evening, 5 days per week. You can spend the evenings bonding with your puppy and practicing what they have learned while still receiving the training puppies so desperately need. You can also do the traditional board and train where you drop your dog off for a specified amount of days/weeks and pick the puppy up when its training is done. We hear nothing but good things about Laura.
A Better Bond Dog Training has a 3-week board and train program for puppies (Wonder Puppy Program) that will give your puppy a head start on basic commands, getting comfortable with grooming, an introduction to leash walking, etc.