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At Over The Moon Labradoodles we are raising high quality true Australian Labradoodles in our home in Grand Forks, British Columbia. We love the Australian Labradoodle and wish to make our contribution to the growth and development of this breed. We have a very small breeding program and our aim is to provide a few, loved puppies that will be healthy family pets.

SUZETTE'S PUPPIES ARE HERE...THEY WILL BE READY FOR THEIR NEW HOMES AT THE END OF JUNE.

Suzette's puppy, Queen Titania, who is now Brie shares a moment with her new mistress in California.

This is Emily, Lilyanna's puppy who travelled to Kentucky to be with Haven. We think they are both extraordinarily beautiful.

A LETTER FROM EMILY MORNINGSTAR'S FAMILY... Emily is such a joyful addition to our family. She is the sweetest, most loving animal I've ever known. My daughter Haven adores her. Emily is truly a therapy dog without ever being trained to do so. It is just her nature. She goes through the tunnels during Haven's therapy, gets on the swings, and goes to all the other children and loves hem. Haven decides if it's ok for Emily, it's ok for her. Emily somehow seems to know exactly what Haven needs even when people around her don't. So I thank you for our blessing. Lilyanna's puppy page. Look how busy and grown up we are.

Maggie, one of the puppies from Lilyanna's last litter with her beautiful children in Calgary.

Charlie and Lilyanna's puppy Evangeline, who is now Maggie, meet and fall in love in Calgary.	This handsome pair, Connor and Lilyanna's puppy Aries,  now Hugo, are new best friends.

	PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED PUPPIES AT OVER THE MOON. We are lucky to have Professional Dog trainer Kathy Novokshonoff who is available to take a puppy into her home for a month of training. The puppies leave Kathy's home potty trained, leash trained and with beautiful social skills. This is a unique opportunity for families of a new puppy. The families who have puppies trained by Kathy were filled with praise for her program.
Kathy & Midsummer Helena at the beginning of Helena's training program.

The Australian Labradoodle is the result of careful selection in order to make a better service dog for people with disabilities as well as a dog that could be a fine family companion for people who suffer from asthma or allergies. In the Australian Labradoodle the best qualities of the lab, devotion and patience, are now coupled with the high intelligence and non-shedding qualities of the poodle. But the development of the Doodle we have come to know was not, as with any truly good thing, that simple.

All domestic dogs are a result of human selection.  Every breed of dog began as a pair of animals selectively bred for their unique qualities. The ancestors of our domestic pets hung out around the human settlements hoping to find a few leftovers from the table. The dogs that were the most friendly were the ones invited to stay for dinner; the unfriendly were left behind. It is these friendly animals that are the ancestors of all the dogs we love today. From these early meetings of dogs and humans certain breeds were established in various parts of the world. The wealthy developed large, hunting breeds. The poor, who were not allowed to hunt, developed the terriers. These little dogs were bred to rid buildings of vermin. This is why they possess a ferocious tenacity.

With changing times people make different demands on their canine companions. To this end people have carefully crossed one dog breed with another to produce a desired result. The dogs that we now know as a 'pure bred' have all been the result of this interbreeding to find the perfect dog for the job at hand. Eventually within this new breed you must have dogs who conform to one standard.

Lilyanna

The Australian Labradoodle is often mistaken for a Labrador Retriever Poodle Cross. It is not. The Australian Labradoodle is a new and distinct breed of dog. 

The people of Tegan Park Research Center in Australia took up the challenge of developing a highly intelligent dog that was allergy friendly and bred exclusively to be a companion. They eventually developed the Australian Labradoodle who, like most every other recognized breed has been developed with a foundation of more than two types of dogs. 

The Australian Labradoodle had a rocket ship ride to fame. People loved the look, the temperament and the sense of humor of this delightful dog. Of course, fame, as any movie star will tell you, is not always a blessing. Breeders began to cross poodles with labs and call them Labradoodles. Others realized the gifts the poodle can bring to any mating and now there is hardly a type of dog not bred with a poodle. 

Some of the results of this breeding are charming, others are not as wonderful, but the Australian Labradoodle is the doodle that became justifiably famous for the temperament and the hypoallergenic qualities so highly prized by families today.

Every breed comes about by crossing various breeds together to obtain a desired result. The little Yorkshire terrier traces his ancestry back to the Waterside Terrier, who has in his family tree the Manchester, Paisley and Clydesdale Terriers who are closely related to the modern Skye Terrier. Although we can still find Paisleys and Clydesdales today we certainly don't call our beloved Yorkie a Paisley Clydesdale cross.

People have never stopped developing breeds. In 2001 the American Kennel Club accepted six new breeds. One of these new accepted breeds is the Black Russian Terrier. This dog began to be developed in the 1930's as a guard dog by the Army in the USSR. They wanted a tough, courageous, all-around military dog that could withstand Russia's harsh climate. The foundation dogs were Rottweilers, Giant Schnauzers, and Airedale Terriers carefully-selected for stable temperament, athletic ability, and stamina. Offspring of the initial breedings of Rottweilers to Giant Schnauzers and Giant Schnauzers to Airedales were bred to each other, and the resulting breed standardized in the 1956. The AKC is very careful about the breed standard and it took until 2001 for the Black Russian to be recognized and so for fifty years the Black Russian Terrier waited for recognition. 

In his fifty years of waiting in the wings the Black Russian did not receive a tenth of the notoriety of the Australian Labradoodle has had in his few short years. Certainly the Internet and the media contributed to his instant notoriety but the Australian Labradoodle himself had a part to play in his sky rocket to fame.. This happy and friendly long coated dog that is proving to be hypo allergenic for so many allergy and asthma sufferers, arrived at the time when there was a need for a family companion who would not shed a mountain of fur on the chesterfield. He was not bred to guard and so is an easy-going chap. He is playful and so loves children. He adapts with equal ease to a down town apartment or to the country life. 

At the beginning one man, Australian Wally Conran of Australia decided to fill a need that one lady had, a guide dog that she wasn't allergic to. The beginning was a simple cross of a Standard Poodle and a Labrador Retriever. The results were not predictable and Mr. Conran stopped his breeding program. The people of Tegan Park and Rutland Manor of Australia took up the challenge of developing a dog that would be a hypo allergenic companion and service dog. Our dogs are directly descended from these two research breeders. 

Now the Australian Labradoodle has been invited to prepare for recognition by the Australian Kennel Club.