Testimonials from Labradoodle puppy owners

12-12-12

This is one of Ruthie and Abe's lovely babies from their 10/08/12 litter when she had been home for a week with her new family:

Beatrice is 9 weeks old and she's still doing great with her crate, she's sleeping 8.5 hrs already and goes potty outside like a champ. She knows her name, "come", "sit", and is working on "lay down." I am also very excited that she seems to automatically know how to fetch, I guess that's the retriever! I've never had a dog who didn't just want to play keep away with the ball, even when treats were used. She thrives on attention and is so eager to please. Honestly Sherri, we couldn't be happier with her. Thank you!

12-12-12 This is Ariel's Murphy adopted by a wonderful couple who drove here from Salida, Co to pick him up and then back home. He had not been in a car since he had his dew claws removed at 3 days of age, but did very well!

From: Jim
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:15 PM
To: 'Sherri Halvorson'
Subject: Home safe and sound

Sherri and Roger,

All 3 of us are home safe and sound. Murphy was a Saint coming home, we stopped three times to let him drink and potty and he slept the rest of the time. When we got home he stuffed his food down like he hadn’t eaten in weeks, what a sight. JJ From then on he was a wild man until about a half hour ago, sniffing, and checking everything out, not letting us out of his sight, what a BLAST. J J He is in his cage and completely zonked, what a beauty he is, you are right, he is the prized jewel, and we are lucky we have him. Thanks for all your help, will probably be a pain in the (you know where) but will keep you apprised of his progress. Sure would like to see the pictures you took of all of us, at your convenience. Be safe.

Jim

12-07-12 This is our little miracle baby who was a singleton (only 1 in the litter) from our sweet Rayna and Able minis. He was a "stuck puppy" at birth, but with the Lord's help AND we give the honor to YOU Lord, we were able to pull him out and really because he was in the birth canal so long, over ten minutes, we didn't have much hope that he would be alive! when I laid him on the blanket he began to wiggle and Rog and I both broke into tears so we named him our Adhonay's Miracle and called him Mikey, but of course his family has chosen their special name for him now and it is Leo! We were fortunate that Ariel's litter was born 3 days later and when Leo was 2 weeks old we put him with Ariel and began weaning him from Rayna so that he would have socialization of a litter to grow with.

Thank you for our baby! First night with Leo is going great!!

12-10-12 This is our gorgeous black girl out of Annie and Ozzie's current litter whose mom flew here to pick her up and took her back in cabin to Phoenix!

From: Shelley
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 2:25 PM
To: Sherri Halvorson

Hi Sherri,

I wanted to let you know that "Sophie" and I had a safe and uneventful trip to Arizona. She sat on the chair next to me in the airport with her whelping blanket and pig's ear. She had many admirers.

My husband and boys were thrilled to see her. She had some visitors as well. My oldest said everyone had to come and pay homage to her :) she had so much fun outside.

I will send a couple of more pictures.

Thank you for everything.

Shelley

From: Shelley
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:21 PM
To: Sherri Halvorson
Subject: Re: Sophie

Hi Sherri,

Sophie is doing very well. She sleeps in her crate next to our bed at night. She sleeps right through the night (starting on the third night) until about 6. We're working on the house training. She has lots of toys and loves our back yard. When she gets wound up she flies like a bullet around the yard. She's getting a heavy dose of socialization. She's had a bath and did great with that. I hosted our store's holiday party last Sat night. She met lots of people. Plus there has been a parade of my boys' (and my husband and mine) friends coming to see her. We have lots of parties at our house so we definitely want her to be used to being around a lot of people. Plus she will be coming to the store with me. I took her for her well vet visit Friday (she weighs 9 pounds) - I think I was supposed to let you know that I did that. I'm planning on taking more pictures this weekend so will forward you a couple.
Shelley

Skylar is out of Chloe and Abe's current litter and she now resides in the state of Maine:

This is Adhonay's Hali another of our beautiful gentle older puppies. She is 10 months old

and went to her "forever" home today. Her mom plans to train her in the Delta therapy program.

We ran out of pink harness seat belts for the Princess so she had to wear blue! :(

to carry on her bloodline and Momma Becca's, and further the development of her breed,

Two good nights of sleep, but she made sure I caught on quickly she prefers the bed to a crate. First night she slept right next to me, last night she claimed her own spot.

She does follow me everywhere which must be tiring, I didn't realize how many times I go from one end of the house to the other. I put a big doggie pillow in front of the fireplace in our great room and the basket of toys by it. If I sit down to read she goes over and lays on the pillow without being told to. Sometimes gets all the toys out and puts them by her pillow.

She has marked things and places with her scent by rubbing her face and mouth on them. Just now she did it to the dirty laundry in piles in the utility. It is fun to watch.

Yesterday evening out back Ron emptied Logan's wading pool. He put all the little floating toys in a bucket. She watched. A bit later I'm watering my potted plants, Ron is grilling and I see her go by into the house with something in her mouth. Comes out goes to the bucket and back in house. She was taking those rubber toys in to her basket!!!!!! You can imagine how hard we laughed. But I got them all and told her they weren't hers and put them up where she couldn't reach . She is very aware of all going on around her, besides being smart and sneaky!!!

You were right about no fear of noise, even in a strange place. Ron is in the garage building bookcases for Daughter Renee to go on each side of their fireplace. The saw and air nailer are loud enough to her in the house. She doesn't act like any anything to be concerned about. She has thought the hummingbirds whizzing thru the yard and making a noise is worth watching! And the quail making lots of noise when we went out to potty this am did stop her long enough to look around and see what that was.

She comes to me ===and sometimes Ron a few times a day and gives us her trademark hug, that is so precious, defines her personality completely.

So 48 hours into being in our home and I can say she is doing amazingly well. Love her and I give her kisses all the time. Carolyn

After 2 months, Carolyn sent this testimony of how our Momma Sassy is doing:

This is Adhonay's RILEY, who was adopted before she was born thru the process of placing a deposit and choosing

Riley is out of Emmie and Noah's litter born 12/14/09 and she was the tiny girl in that litter

This is Adhonay's RIVER, now Bailey, who was adopted as an "older puppy" of 4.5 months with her new mom.

This is Adhonay's CINNAMON who was adopted as an "older puppy" of 5 months with her beautiful new family.

Cinnamon is a very smooth coated miniature size girl out of our Cleopatra and Davey :

Dear Sherri and Roger, Just a short update to let you know how much fun we are having with our little girl, Porsche. She is adorable and as smart as can be at 8 weeks. She nearly has us completely trained! She passed her puppy wellness physical with flying colors. She will sit, stay, come, wait, go down, shake and heel (the first steps anyway) - for a treat, of course. She is not as good with- off (get down) and no teeth. But we continue to work with her on those. She loved her grassy yard immediately and loves her kiddie swimming pool. It is too funny to watch her run round around in the water. Thanks again for starting her out right. She had no problems with the fireworks and quickly adjusts to strange situations. Thanks also for those chewy strips, she loves them and they are the perfect diversion for no teeth. She also goes nuts over visitors and everyone thinks she is adorable.

I am not sure if my daughter or I met this lady, but Tabitha is a big hit in the Vail Valley. I do not want a referral, just if you can give your lovely puppies a new home that is great!!!

We are so happy with Tabitha & she is a wonderful puppy & has taken so well to our other dogs- that in it's self is beyond belief.

We are having our wellness check tomorrow with the rabies shot. I will keep you updated, but we will referral you to as many people as we can & don't expect anything in return.

Here is a picture of Colter running while we are fishing in Utah. He is doing really well. Take Care, Cindie

Hi Sherri,

How are you?

Just wanted to give you an update on Hazel (‘fuzz ball’ is just one of her nicknames. That one is from Doug… I call her babycakes.)

We are all still in heaven with this dog… and so in love with her. She had just gotten a bath in the picture I have attached. She is now 8 months old.

She chews, but only her toys. She loves to play and if you are ignoring her, you will find a ball or toy dropped in your lap continuously until you engage her.

We went through out first dog class and she did great. She has learned many tricks. Her favorite is touchdown that my son taught her. We are going back to dog training next month… and my ultimate wish would be to do agility training with her. She is a quick learner – very easy to train.

She is still a little shy around strangers and take her everywhere to try to help socialize her. She has been to a bike race, the farmers market, loves to walk, and ride in the car.

Her very favorite thing to do is when we find an open park and throw the Frisbee as far as we can… she will run her little heart out for about 45 min. Then she starts to slow down. She did not get to go to the park for a while because we spend about one month in cones and stitches, she cut her foot and was spayed. We are so happy to be done with the wrapped paws and cones to keep her from licking out the stitches. She is doing great now and all healed up.

There are not enough words to describe what a wonderful breed this is. She is really smart. I can tell her to go get her ball and she does. She loves to greet everyone at the door when we get home at the end of the day. She is a delightful creature.

I just wanted to send you a new picture of our little baby… and let you know that we could not be happier!!

Thanks,

Pam

Ginger Rogers is far more than we could have hoped, and unless you own a well bred Australian Labradoodle, how would you know what to expect. She is so smart. And willing. Simba (a Coton De Tulear rare breed) is smart but manipulative...but it took years to teach him much of what she already knows, in just two weeks today. She is also training him well. Yesterday she decided she is going to take him for walks. In order to have my hands free to work with her on walks, he is on a leash wrapped around my waste, that is elastic. She has decided that if she grabs the leash between me and him, she can make him walk where she wants him to, or she can stop him from walking, by sitting still. She is truly amazing. The dog park group finds her very well behaved, in retrospect to the Standard 8 month old Labradoodle, breed by someone in Oregon. He's a hooligan, very wild, while she is so calm. The calm is the thing that amazes most people about her. A calm puppy is almost an oxymoron.

This is our beautiful Dante now 3 years old, brother to our lovely Sassy out of Becca and Moose's first litter together:

Hi,

So great to hear from you. We can hardly believe that Dante celebrated his third birthday last month. I've enclosed a couple of snapshots from Christmas. As you can tell by the photos Dante is very much a member of the family (even has his own stocking!) He still drags a blanket everywhere he goes (you can see a couple of them in the photos) and will often still nurse on them. I am happy to say that we have never had to kennel him - the extended family loves him as much as we do and we never have a shortage of relatives willing to watch him if we all have to leave town and he can't come with us.

He's a bit scruffy looking in the photos - he's always combed out and bathed but I trim him on the back deck and the weather just hasn't been that great. I must be doing an okay job when I groom him - my vet even asked what groomer we used she thought he looked so great.

He is such a smart dog and catches on to things so quickly. Although, he is as bad if not worse than the kids when it comes to leaving his toys all over the house! He's proved himself quite handy at grabbing foul balls for us when Alex started playing t-ball in the spring and is still the fastest dog at our dog park. He looks forward to going out and playing in the snow as much as the kids.

My brother-in-law rescued a small poodle cross from the humane society this year. They have spent so much money in vet bills and have training issues that seem almost insurmountable. It just reaffirmed my belief that finding a quality dog from a caring breeder was the best decision we ever made.

The kids are doing okay. Riley, 9, continues to excel in everything she does from school to soccer to guitar. She spent most of last summer on crutches with a broken ankle but has healed well. Alex, 6, is do well considering we seem to get a hold of one health problem just to have another one pop up. We are likely going to spend spring break in Chicago to see a specialist to help treat the latest rare autoimmune disorder that has cropped up. Troy is working way too many hours but with the economy we are just thankful he is employed.

Great to hear from you and glad you are still producing these wonderful dogs!

Heather and family

Pat and I wanted to give you an up-date on Tuki and a few new pictures. I'm certain you will agree she is absolutely adorable. Everyone comments on her cuteness and playful spirit. She has a great disposition, is a very quick learner and has boundless energy. Already she has become a fetching machine and is enjoying being part of the Kong family. Some of her puppy Kong favorites are the Tiger Kong Braidz, Air Dog Jack and the Wubbas. She sleeps with a large Snugga Wubba. You could say she is quite “The Lucky Dog” to have so many fun toys.

It has been almost two years since we lost our sixteen year old Trixie. Grieving the loss, we began enjoying our grand “Doodle” dogs, Rosie and Shiloh. Over the last 35 years we have adopted all of our dogs except one. However, after much thought and deliberation we decided we wanted to raise a labradoodle puppy. This is when we contacted you at Adhonay Labradoodles. We sincerely appreciate how much time you took helping us the learn about labradoodles and your advice in the process of choosing our medium chocolate girl, Tuki.

We are quickly remembering how much is involved in raising a puppy, but we don’t regret our decision for a second. Tuki has brought new joy and fun to our family. We love her to pieces. Thanks again for everything.

Hi Sherri and Roger,

Dakota turns 2 today. But you already knew that.

I'm out the door right now or I'd write more because I haven't been in touch.

She's so lovey.

First photo, "blowing" out the candles
Second photo, eating the cak (p-butter and cream cheese frosting from Polka Dog bakery)

Lauri

Hi Sherri,

Hope you are all happy and healthy on this beautiful day.

I don't have the name of the groomer you love so much - I know she is at Evans and Holly (I think),

but don't know the name of the "salon". I'd like to make an appointment for Sunny.

He is a complete delight and we all love him so much. Even Jim is totally in love with him.

He is funny, smart and beautiful and so sweet natured. We are getting so much joy from him.

He is completely bonded and loves Brit and is very patient with her. He sleeps under her bed at night!

And, he is getting so big - he about doubled his weight from Dec. 24 to the end of January!

And, what a boy - into everthing and a complete slob! We have given him three baths,

with the tub covered in mud every time.

Anyway, hope you are doing well.

Best wishes and love, Cristi

Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:59 AM
To: Sherri Halvorson
Subject: Re: Adhonay's The Color Purple

We have enjoyed having Purple Izzy in our home and she is settling right in. She slept soundly in her crate, in our master bedroom .and we didn't even know she was there. My husband was making more noise with his snoring than she was. This morning she mastered the stairs and is now very confident. My boys introduced her to the joys of tennis balls and has enjoyed playing fetch with them in the backyard. She is sleeping soundly on the couch next to me, as I do some work on the laptop this morning. It is very windy out here and that had her a bit worried as did the clock chimes, ice maker and dishwasher. I'm sure that will pass.

We will send pictures when we have them. Thanks for helping us pick a great dog--my kids are thrilled with her.

I miss my Labradoodle family but I want you to know I have learned to walk on a leash and sit by the door when I need to go out. I have many four legged friends who come to visit me and we play in my big yard. Wednesday I will visit my doctor and have my private parts altered.

I get to sleep with my pink bear and I go into my kennel at night by myself. I love to play with toys and chew on my tendons. I am eating my food w/water only. Oh yes, I had a bath and did very well with the whole process...I had good training.

Below is an email of Becca/Moose 7-28-08 Ralph aka toto/white lace boy.

Ralph comfortable and at home in the arms of his new daddy!!!!!

Dear Sherri and Roger,

Attached are three pictures of Toto at home. He was perfect on the car ride home, and ever since! He went into his crate right away (we haven’t closed him in yet), he took a nap outside and inside the crate, and is generally being as good as he can be. He’s already used the outdoor potty area several times, and has had only one very small accident.

Thank you for such a great dog.

Craig *& Danielle

We are in Breckenridge/frisco this weekend, and Elisha is with us. We have talked to no less than 50 people about Elisha ....we can't walk down the street without people stopping us to ask about him. Jill shared your website with a few people. This dog gets attention no matter where we go...adults want to know what kind of dog he is, and kids all want to pet him!

He has had a very full weekend, and has been great. People we don't know even comment on how well behaved he is for a puppy. He's been boating, swimming, and retrieving -- and is a natural will all those things.

I thought you'd enjoy some pictures of Izzy! She is really something. We've been doing the Pets Mart puppy class and she is quite proficient at sit, down and shake. She is my shadow and is a true joy. Did your daughter mention seeing us a few weeks ago? What a small world! She knew immediately that Izzy was Becca's daughter. We've visited the dog park a few times in hopes of running into them. Izzy loves to play fetch.

We've had so many comment about her disposition and how well mannered she is for a puppy. We really feel blessed. She was meant to be ours:-)

This email came yesterday (7-9-08) in regard to izzy. while we do not like the electric fencing, we acknowledge that it may be necessary in some cases:

This is Axel with her young mistress. Axel is out of the Becca and Moose's "Lucky Thirteen" litter which we had 1/7/08 and then moved to Byers with. Axel was just back from a day at the pet spa and being groomed by our wonderful groomer Crystal Waldorf of the Waldorf Pet Spa (www.WaldorfPetSpa.com) in Denver. She looks like a million dollars as does her young mistress!

It was great to see you, Roger and the rest of the "gang" too. I can't tell you how thrilled we are with Louie. He has been such a great addition to our family and is such a great dog. I just love his little personality too! I think it is a real testament to you and Roger. I think you do an amazing job with all your dogs. We would like to register Louie with the ILA, so just let us know what to do. Thanks for the recall info. I'll check the website periodically. I appreciate your offer of support in helping us raise Louie. Like everything I guess, there are a lot of schools of thought. I take comfort in knowing I can check with you on all matters of Louie. We would love for you to stop by anytime when you are down this way. Good luck with those pups, they are adorable. I'll be in touch. Thanks for everything. Anne

Hello Sherri and Rog-

It’s been about 2.5 months since we picked up Hapa from you folks and things are going well with him. He assimilated very quickly and was a fast learner when potty training him and kennel training him. In fact, he mastered both within 2 weeks! He’s definitely showing characteristics of being a pup: curious, loves to play, easily excitable and your occasional accident. But what we’ve been impressed with is his kind tempered manner and his ability to learn very quickly. Hapa’s also become accustomed to having a baby around. He’s great with Sienna when playing and loves to check on her when he hears her cry. Although, he definitely gets a little jealous when we give her all of the attention! All in all, we couldn’t be happier with Hapa. He’s been a great addition to the family and we know our little Sienna will love growing up with her “brother”!

Hope all is well. God Bless.

Warm Regards,

Norm, Christine and Sienna

I can’t believe how fast my first year has gone! It seems like just yesterday that I was born, and then a few weeks later, I was a TV star. Soon after that, I was adopted by my forever home, just in time for Christmas!

I grew up really fast, and am so tall and big now. Not to mention powerful. I love my brothers, Jacob, Henry and Daniel. And I know they love me because they have taught me all sorts of tricks and they are always hugging on me (even though I'm bigger than Daniel and weigh more than Henry!).

I know my mom and dad love me too; even when I have an accident in the house. That doesn’t happen very often though. I am pretty good about telling them when I need to go outside. My dad is so funny; when he comes home from work, I RUN to the door and greet him and he seems SO happy to see me, even when he is really tired. My mom usually lets me ride in the car when she goes to pick the boys up at school, and that is my favorite thing to do! I don’t like when they have to leave me at home, but I usually just take a nap or chew on my chew toy. I still have “Tiger” who came with me when I came here, but I amputated his leg, so mom had to put him up. He was just so much fun to chew up! He didn’t seem to mind only having 3 legs, but mom didn’t like that I took out some of his stuffing too. My favorite thing to chew, though, is all those dirty boy socks in the house! Mom keeps saying that if those boys would just put their dirty laundry in the laundry baskets, they wouldn’t find me chewing on the socks, but really I take them out of the baskets too, so it wouldn’t help much. I guess I look pretty guilty when I have a sock in my mouth; I try to run away really fast when anyone comes near. But when they say “DROP IT”, I will, because I don’t like to be a trouble maker. I'm actually pretty sweet, except for the sock thing.

I have lots of friends in the neighborhood too. I love running in the back yard with Buddy, the next door neighbor’s black lab. He thinks he can beat me from one end of the yard to the other, but I usually win. And, Rascal, the “new kid” on the block is so funny. He comes over all the time to play with me. Though he is smaller than me and younger, I am really gentle with him. His owner knows if he isn’t in their yard, he can find Rascal in my yard. Grace and Amos live kitty-corner from me and we always meet at the point where the fences all come together. I don’t know the other neighbor’s little dog, but he barks a lot and wants to play with us “big kids”. Yogi lives across the street; he is a sheep dog. I looked like him this summer until mom got my hair trimmed (boy, was dad mad!) and then I looked a little less shaggy. It was nice, though, not to be so darn hot all summer!

Today was SO much fun. When I woke up in my little “palace” in the laundry room, I did not know it had snowed all night long! I LOVE the snow! When my mom took me outside, I saw a whole foot of snow in my yard. I just ran and ran, and even though she tried to get me to come inside a few times, I just ran around in circles, hoping she’d get the clue that I was NOT ready to come inside! It was so much fun. I was glad when the boys came outside to play; they had no school today so we played all day long! I kept begging to go back outside even when I didn’t have to go potty! It was even more fun than chasing those things called “leaves” that were all over the yard this fall. I thought they were bunnies or something, until I caught one and realized it was just a crunchy leaf. OH well! I like to chase the bunnies in the yard, but they always win.

My family kept calling me “Yeti” today instead of Maggie, because I had snow all over my body. Don’t worry, they dried me off and warmed me up every time we went back inside. But they wouldn’t let me in the living room until I was dry. I spent much of the afternoon laying on the couch with mom and Jacob under my fleece blanket I got when I was born. It was so nice to just hang out and snooze all afternoon!

Tonight when Henry got home from soccer, they sang some funny song to me about birthdays, and then they ate cake (too bad they didn’t’ share with me!). I was pretty excited when they got me a new chew toy. The other gift I got was some sort of dog brush, which I do not like very much. I had to get shaved at the end of the summer because dad let me go off-leash while on a hike and I had a little run-in with about a million burrs. Even though mom had been brushing me all summer, the groomer did tell her I had burrs AND mats, and had to be shaved. I was pretty nervous, but actually, I still looked pretty good. Dad was not very happy at first, but mom reminded him that my new haircut made my fur look like crushed velvet. That made me feel pretty (until then, I just felt naked). It is growing back in, and hopefully dad learned his lesson (I know I learned my lesson to STAY ON THE TRAIL). He said I looked like a poodle, and I thought “hey, there are worse things you could look like!”. I did not like the red bow they put on my ear, so I promptly took that thing off. I'm not a girly girl. I like to go hiking with my family, and dad even takes me on short mountain bike rides (though he wouldn’t take me when I looked like a girly poodle!). We went camping this summer, and I loved that too! Dad’s sister and her family came to visit (and now their girls all want a puppy because of ME!). I loved them! We went to the mountains (that is where I got into the burrs), and I heard Aunt Cathy say that I looked like a human in a dog suit, whatever that means. I think it means that my expressions are so cute, I looked like a kid dressed up like a dog. Uncle Gary liked to pet me; I sure hope they come back to visit again soon! I got lots of attention!

I think I have a pretty good life. They treat me well, and I give them lots of licks. When Daniel lays on the ground I will lick his back and neck like he is my very own little puppy. He says it tickles him and he giggles a lot. That makes me feel good. Mostly I love just being right by their side. Even if I am sound asleep on the kitchen floor, if mom goes into the office, I will jump up and follow her (no wonder she calls me “Shadow” sometimes!). Then I plop down in the oversized chair by the window and just gaze outside with a big contented sigh. Sometimes if mom goes into her room to get something, I jump up on her bed and just sit there like I own the place. She usually tells me to “get off” but it is nice while it lasts! I keep hoping they’ll let me sleep in that comfy bed with them, but I heard her tell dad when he asked if they could, NO WAY!! That’s okay. I like my bed in my own room! And if I ever need someone in the middle of the night, all I have to do is give a little bark and mom comes running.

Well, I'm so tired from playing all day, so I'm going to go to sleep. I hope the snow doesn’t melt too fast tomorrow. I want to play in it some more. I don’t know what the next year will be like, but if it is anything like my first year, it will be really fun! I wonder if my littermates have had as good a year as I have. I sure hope so, because mine has been GREAT

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