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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.
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Green Eyed Suzette
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School Boy Bobby
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Suzette and father Bobby are proud to
announce the arrival of nine beautiful, healthy puppies who
arrived April 9th!
These golden and cream medium, multi gen
puppies will be ready for their new homes the 21st of June just
time for summer!
Visit Suzette's
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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
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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.
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This handsome pair, Connor and Lilyanna's puppy Aries,
now Hugo, are new best friends.
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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.
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Helena at the beginning of Helena's training program. |
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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.


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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.
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