Sunshine Acres has been raising the Goldendoodle since 2002.  Our Goldendoodle puppies are socialized in a family setting following techniques taught by Jan Fennell, The Dog Listener. We own both of our puppies parents, and in most cases, owned their grandparents and great-grandparents as well. Each of our puppies come with a three year health guarantee and a puppy care package.  They are current on their vaccinations and have been given the best of preventative veterinary care.  

It has been very rewarding to now have many repeat customers as well as customer’s referrals coming to purchase their newest “Best Friend”-a Goldendoodle- from Sunshine Acres. While our puppies are delighted to fill this role of best friend and companion to their families, we also have many of Sunshine Acre’s Goldendoodles filling different roles as they work in search and rescue or as service, therapy or assistance dogs.  Michael and Grover (our Goldendoodle who is a certified Pet Partner with Michael through the Delta Society) enjoy doing Animal Assisted Activity work together at our local nursing home.

Location:  Northwest Indiana -- Wolcott, IN

Our rural home and acreage is located just outside of Wolcott.

2 hrs from O'Hare (Chicago, Illinois), 1.5 hrs from Indianapolis, Indiana 

Mission Statement:  To provide a healthy, intelligent, sweet-natured puppy that is supreme at making families laugh together, give individuals devotion and companionship, and reduce the effects of dog allergies.

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The Doodlepuppy Goldendoodle:  This fun-loving dog has been the object of many newspaper articles, Animal Planet, and various talk shows.  Most people that are buying Doodlepuppy Goldendoodles are looking for a Golden Retriever with a lot less shedding hair.  In addition to good hair qualities, the Doodlepuppy Goldendoodle is also a wonderful family companion, they are highly intelligent, and they are very trainable.  That is the lovable Doodlepuppy Goldendoodle in a nutshell.

Sunshine Acres' beginning: Although Michael grew up on a family farm in Iowa, and was involved in Agriculture, his first experience with genetics was in his undergraduate research with Dr. Walt Fehr’s soybean breeding.  Genetics quickly became an interest to Michael in this work.  In 2000 he located on a rural acreage at our present location near Wolcott, Indiana.  It was then the Doodle dream was conceived and began to materialize.  At this time, there were very few hybrid breeds of dogs available, as the majority of breeders focused only on purebred breeds.  Michael’s interest in genetics led to him deciding to raise a family pet and therapy dog from lines that had been strictly selected for good health, outstanding temperament and trainability that was not a purebred, but a hybrid.  Interestingly, at this time, there were very few Doodle breeders in the U.S, especially in the mid-west.  Few people had ever heard of a “Doodle”.  Michael began to research parent lines, and acquired his first Doodle mother in 2000.  So Sunshine Acres was born, and along with it our first much anticipated and carefully planned for litter of  puppies.  Over the course of the next several years, we carefully selected our Golden Retriever, Irish Setter and Poodle parents from good, healthy lines that were solid in temperament and had coat type and coloring we were looking for.   We have found the Goldendoodles to be a well balanced, tender hearted, warm, wonderful breed that we love to work with.  After years of carefully selecting and breeding our own lines, our Goldendoodle puppies have developed a distinct "Sunshine Acres" look that sets them apart from many other Goldendoodles.  Through experience we have learned which lines make exceptional "Doodle" parents.