Our Mission

Spread love, one puppy at a time.

Our Mission at Texas Teddy Doodles is to produce emotionally, mentally & physically sound and well-balanced quality Poodles and Doodles, and to educate everyone I can possibly reach out there about finding the right dog for you, and to help people find a good breeder when it's time to find your new best-friend.  

The most important aspect of our breeding program is good temperament tied with good genetic health and knowledge. "Good temperament" means to us that a dog is controllable and easy to live with, cooperative, confident, intelligent, having versatility to cope with strange situations, loving, driven, a good and happy worker, and above all, a perfect companion whether they ever enter a show ring or not! Our dogs as our family pets are the most important function they can ever have!! Remember, good temperament means different things to different breeders!  

We strive to breed dogs that are genetically healthy. I belong to a number of genetics groups, one specializing just on the genetic diseases/defects of these breeds, and my own dogs are a part of this ongoing study, in addition to others, as would I like for all my pups to be surveyed and added, too.  

There are so many things that we as breeders have an amount of control over, such as: hip/elbow dysplasia, luxating patellae (which is prevalent especially in small breeds), cardiac & thyroid and others can be tested for and certified free by the QFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) . PennHIP is a newer screening tool for testing joint laxity' in our dogs' hips; many breeders prefer this testing method over the traditional OFA view. Eyes may be tested and registered by CERF (Canine Eye Registry Foundation), which cooperatively lists their results through the OFA website. Eye problems are prevalent in many breeds; both large and small!

We as breeders can take care to use only properly screened dogs, proven to be free of those prevalent genetic diseases, as our breeding stock! Breeders, an ounce of prevention is worth a TON of cure when it comes to other people's hearts. Just because these tests cost money to do, and yes, they do cut into your profit margin, doesn't make them not worth the trouble there is nothing measurable to doing the right thing!!! The caring breeder will be truly interested in the health, temperament, welfare, longevity and preservation of their chosen breed.  

Buyers Beware: if it doesn't seem like they do care, don't buy from that person! Make sure the parents of the puppy you're looking at have the appropriate genetic certifications - I have known many people who have to agonize over their 1 or 2 year old pup being crippled with hip dysplasia; and then agonize some more about the $5,000 financial decision to fix or not to fix him/her...

Any good breeder will provide you with a written contract, with some kind of WRITTEN guarantee concerning the health of your dog.

I do. 

Granted, there's never any 100% guarantee for anything in life, that's what written contracts are for - even in this modern age of science, I've seen pups OFA below Fair (Fair being the lowest I would accept for breeding stock) come out of parents being rated OFA Excellent. Genetics are still very much a crapshoot, but the odds are much more in your favor that your puppy will be healthy if its parents are certified to be healthy too.  

The happiest moment in all of this for me is when I get to see families' faces light up when they get their puppy. That's when all the time, the hard work, the spilled food, the sleep-ness nights and mountains of puppy-poop becomes all worth it. Knowing that all the love and energy that I put in will be enriching another family’s lives as my dogs have mine.