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About Sunshine Acres Goldendoodles

Are you searching for the perfect Goldendoodle Puppy? Welcome to Sunshine Acres, where our Goldendoodle puppies enjoy interacting with our family throughout each day.  As experienced, ethical Goldendoodle Breeders we help match many families to their wonderful Irish Goldendoodle puppy. 

What are you looking for in your new puppy?  A walking buddy, a cheer-giver, a friend of children?  In your quest for a healthy, loving Goldendoodle, we can help match you with your ideal puppy.  We are available with tips and advice to make the choosing easier since we interact with each puppy daily since birth.  Let us know what characteristics you are looking for in your Goldendoodle puppy so we can point you to the puppies or litter that best matches those traits.

Our Golden Irish, Golden Retriever and Poodle parents all live here at Sunshine Acres.  Our puppies are born here. They are lovingly raised by our family.  Because of this, we know not only their individual health history and temperament, but the history of their parents.  In many cases, our Goldendoodle puppies’ grandparents and great-grandparents were also born here at Sunshine Acres.  We are glad to be a source of knowledge for you, not only before your Goldendoodle puppy comes home, but for the many years after, as well.  Relationships are important to us and we are interested in watching our puppies integrate into your families and your lives.

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Sunshine Acres is Customer Recommended

Sunshine Acres is a customer recommended Goldendoodle breeder since 2002.   Described by our customers as professional and responsible, open and transparent, we focus solely on the wonderful Goldendoodle cross and its parents breeds.  Our F1 Irish Goldendoodle puppies, F1B Irish Goldendoodle puppies and Moyen poodles are from lines carefully selected for their superior health and temperament.  We raised precious, snuggly, and beautiful Goldendoodle and Irish Goldendoodle puppies for sale since the days when almost no one knew what a Goldendoodle was!  As experienced Goldendoodle breeders, we know what genetic lines and physical characteristics to look for in raising smart, well balanced Goldendoodle puppies with a coat that is low to non-shedding.   After 20+ years’ experience in raising the sweet natured Goldendoodle, our puppies have developed a distinctive “Sunshine Acres” style.

Our puppies have a purebred poodle for their sire, and their dame is either a purebred Golden Retriever, or a hybrid Golden Retriever/Irish Setter.  A hybrid puppy from tested, purebred parents is the healthiest cross possible due to “hybrid vigor”.  We are committed to continually improving our breeding lines through carefully selecting each parent for the characteristics that results in puppies with the most desirable pet and therapy dog traits.

We welcome families to come and visit our Goldendoodle puppies and their parents.  Since we are NOT an online puppy wholesaling company, each of our puppies and their parents are available for visits here at our home in northwestern Indiana.  Unlike the commercial puppy marketing websites who have never raised a puppy or laid eyes on the dogs they are advertising, we are not reselling puppies from ANY other breeders.  Each of our puppies was born here, grew from babyhood here and will go directly home to their forever family.  Feel free to call or email us.  You’ll be reaching a family who wants to make the puppy picking process memorable for your family, not a puppy marketer.  We are available to help match you with the right puppy, at the right time.

Don’t just take my word for it.  Check through our website and read through the years of Facebook and Instagram posts by our Sunshine Acres’ families.  Links to our social media sites are posted on this page. Ask us, or the online community, questions about our Goldendoodles.   If you live far away or near, we have found that social media can bring you in touch with doodle families from coast to coast who are sharing their lives with a Sunshine Acres Goldendoodle or Irish Goldendoodle. 

Having families come back to Sunshine Acres as repeat customers to purchase another Irish Goldendoodle is very rewarding to us, as we consider this the ultimate compliment.  As the years go by, a larger percentage of our puppies find their new homes through referrals from our customers to their friends, family, co-workers and neighbors.   What fun it is to see our dogs enjoying their role as “Best Friend” to their new families.  While our puppies are happy to fill the role of family companion, some of our Goldendoodles fill a different role as service dogs, assistance or therapy dogs as well as search and rescue dogs.

About Goldendoodles

What is the perfect dog?  For our family, the perfect dog is a Goldendoodle- smart, snuggly, loyal, friendly and more.  It’s no wonder the Goldendoodle is one of the most loved and popular pets.

Red Goldendoodle on white background. Identify Goldendoodle puppy

Low to Non-Shedding Coats

Fur all over the couch, clothes and carpet?  Not with Goldendoodle Puppies!  The Sunshine Acres Goldendoodle has the wildly popular wavy coat or the desirable wavy to curly coat.  Either way, they are beautiful dogs.

Perfectly Precious

Our Goldendoodles are bred to have a “Doodley” appearance.  With their distinctive Sunshine Acres style, there is a reason so many of them get famous on Instagram.  Best of all, precious is more than skin deep…it goes to the heart!

Constant Companion

Sunshine Acres Goldendoodles are well known for their personalities.  These loyal, friendly dogs are well suited for children and families of all ages.  Whether you want to go for a walk in the park or play a game, count your Goldendoodle in.

Fun for Family

Goldendoodles are a versatile dog that adores people.  They are sporting, hunting, water loving animals that are smart, loyal, enjoy exercise, attention, socialization and family interaction

Colorful Coats

We specialized in the difficult to find, red Goldendoodles, but pick your color, pick your size, pick your puppy-our Goldendoodle puppies come in shades from golden to mahogany red.

Super Smart

From potty training to basic obedience, the Goldendoodle loves to learn and is from breeds that rank highest in trainability.  Our puppies are from lines with AKC Field and Conformation Champions in their pedigrees.

How to Find Your Puppy

Sunshine Acres is simply the conduit to connect our happy, healthy puppies to great families. Let us help you find the ideal Goldendoodle puppy that matches you. Once the connection is made, then Sunshine Acres offers a lifetime of support for your puppy.

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    Apply for a puppy, Our application is totally free.  Tell us about yourself.  Let us know what you are looking for in size, color, gender and personality

  • Get Matched

    Either let us know which of our available puppies interests you or get matched with options from our current puppies or future litters we suggest from your application.

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    Depending on the age of the puppy, schedule a visit to meet your puppy or come to pick up your puppy.   If shipping is needed, plan the shipping date and airport location.

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What are Your Questions?

If there are questions, Sunshine Acres is more than happy to respond. Here are a few.

How are your Goldendoodles Socialized?

Our puppies are socialized following the techniques taught by Jan Fennell, The Dog Listener.  This process begins when the puppies are newborns.  The puppies first become familiar with our family through their since of smell and touch since their eyes and ears are closed until they are almost two weeks old.  As the puppies’ eyes open and they mature to a more mobile, active age, they are handled, played with, and enjoyed by our family, with children that range in ages from toddler to teenager.  A puppy’s trainability and intelligence is greatly impacted by its early imprinting, so we expose our puppies to a variety of experiences in a positive way.

How much do Goldendoodles Cost?

Goldendoodle price varies from breeder to breeder and can depend on many factors like breeder experience, health warranty, coat type, color, size and more.  At Sunshine Acres, our prices reflect the quality of our breeding, the commitment we have to the Goldendoodle hybrid in terms of time and financial investment, our continual improvement of breeding stock, and the care and concern we have for each of our puppies, their parents, and the puppies’ new owners.  As experienced Goldendoodle breeders, we are committed to raising a quality F1B and F1 Goldendoodle puppy who become a special part of its new family. 

Do you have red Goldendoodle puppies for sale?

Yes.  We specialize in red Goldendoodle puppies, although we do also have cream to gold Goldendoodle puppies from time to time as well.  Since a red coat is recessive gene in Goldendoodles, both the mother and father must carry the red gene to have puppies with a red coat.  Sometimes the red Goldendoodle is referred to as a brown Goldendoodle or a Chocolate Goldendoodle. 

This beautiful color looks like a shiny new penny in bright sunlight with highlights of gold.  In the shade the red Goldendoodles look like a dark mahogany old penny.  All breeds of red dogs fade as they get older, with the exception of the Irish Setter.   Since the Irish Setters gets darker red as they get older, this is one of the reasons we incorporated the Irish Setter into our Goldendoodle breeding program.   Since the Irish Setter breed was one of the foundation breeds of the purebred Golden Retriever breed, it is a great choice to add additional hybrid vigor to our three way hybrid Irish Goldendoodle puppies.

What is your Goldendoodle Puppies’ Health Warranty?

It is my goal as a Goldendoodle breeder to produce puppies who are sound in both body and mind, while maintaining the outstanding temperament each of their respective breeds are so well known for.  I have carefully chosen each of my Goldens, Golden Irish and Poodles to ensure they are from quality, healthy lines with consistent beauty. Thankfully, my careful breeding produces healthy, well-adjusted puppies.  However, I offer a three year written health warranty on each of my puppies to ensure their new owner knows how serious I am about standing behind my breeding.  Since we are working with living animals, our warranty is in place should a problem ever arise.  Sunshine Acres Warranty 

Do you, as a Goldendoodle breeder, ship puppies out of state?

Yes!  While we’d love it if all of our puppy’s families were local to us here in Indiana and could come visit with their dogs from time to time, we are more than happy to ship your puppy to you.   Shipping is available to most major destinations via airline pet carrying services. 

We are familiar and comfortable with the shipping process and would be glad to make arrangements for shipping if you live too far away to come to Indiana.  Our Sunshine Acre family of Goldendoodle puppy parents now spreads across the US from New York to Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois to Miami, Florida.

Does Sunshine Acres have any Goldendoodle puppies for sale near me?

Looking for Goldendoodles for sale near me?  We welcome visits to Sunshine Acres from those families that live near enough to the Midwest to come for a visit.  We are located in northwest Indiana about halfway between Chicago and Indianapolis just off I-65, near Wolcott, Indiana.  If you need to fly here to visit, Chicago O’Hare is about a 2 hour drive and Indianapolis International is about 1.5 hours drive from our home. 

What care or training do you recommend for my Irish Goldendoodle puppy?

Bringing home a new puppy is an exciting time, but one that can come with lots of questions.  While we, as Goldendoodle breeders, focus on your puppy’s genetics, health and early socialization, much of what your puppy becomes will be as a result of your continued dedication, time and love.  We are glad to be a resource as you consider the important areas of potty training, nutrition, obedience training, grooming and the such like.  The FAQ page on our website has much information.

Are Sunshine Acres Goldendoodles well suited for therapy work?

Sunshine Acres has a large number of Irish Goldendoodle puppies who become a special companion to their new families, but also have a working role to fill in search and rescue or as service, therapy or assistance dogs.  These dogs enrich the lives of the sick and hurting, lonely and discouraged.  Children find it easier to read to a listening dog’s ear.  Those who experience trauma find it easier to open up to the professionals helping them when a dog is present, and smiles brighten the faces of those in hospitals and nursing homes when a shaggy Irish Goldendoodle comes to visit.  From hearing assistance dogs who alert when the phone rings to the service dogs who helps pick up items that are dropped on the floor, our Goldendoodles are well suited for the tasks at hand.  Contact us about the type of therapy work you want to do so we can help select the right puppy for the job.

Experience the Sunshine Acres Difference! A Higher Health Puppy

Here at Sunshine Acres, we started raising the Goldendoodle, an F1 hybrid between a Golden Retriever and a Poodle in 2002.  We chose to raise a designer dog rather than a purebred, since a hybrid cross dog has a better chance of escaping genetic disorders than a purebred dog because it has the advantage of genetic diversity/hybrid vigor.   Hybridization is not a new concept as it has been used for centuries to make plants and animals healthier and increase their vigor.  In 2008, Michael’s experiences in his undergraduate work at Iowa State University as well as his interest in genetics led him to begin the search for a third breed to add into our Goldendoodle lines. 

Choosing the Irish Setter breed to add to our Goldendoodle was a logical choice, since one of the three founding breeds of the purebred Golden Retrievers was the Irish Setter.  Also, the Irish Setter breed has fewer inherent genetic defects than the Golden Retriever and Poodle breeds, so a puppy created from the combination of all three breeds is also at a reduced risk for genetic health challenges. Today, our Irish Goldendoodle puppies (F1 Type 3)  are genetically either ¼  Golden, ¼ Irish Setter and ½ poodle or 1/8 Irish Setter, 3/8 Golden Retriever and ½ poodle.   Either way, this higher health Doodle has an improved chance of a long, healthy life.

With over 10 years of experience raising the gorgeous Irish Goldendoodles, time has proved them to be a healthy dog with similar personality, temperament and trainability traits as the Goldendoodle.  The Irish Goldendoodle has superior coat quality, due to the reduction of undercoat, with a silky soft texture.  Check out our website to see many photos of these beautiful dogs, or see the many posts on our facebook page from our Irish Goldendoodles’ families.  Also look at who we follow on Instagram and watch our Irish Goldendoodles grow from puppy hood into adults with show-stopping good looks.

What does it all mean? Mini, Medium, Standard, F1, F1B, Multigenerational Goldendoodles?

At Sunshine Acres, we raise and wish to promote two types of Goldendoodles.  The first is the F1 type 3 Irish Goldendoodle, which is a three way cross between the Irish Setter, Golden Retriever and Poodle breeds.  This is a first generation cross.  The second cross we recommend is the F1B Goldendoodle, which would be a Goldendoodle (or Irish Goldendoodle) bred back to a poodle.  This is a First Generation Backcross.  Both of these combinations have the predictability of their parents traits while preserving the greatest amount of hybrid vigor. 

Due to the inconsistency of the puppies, we do not raise or support the breeding of multigenerational Goldendoodles.  When two Goldendoodles are bred together, their puppies will not have the consistent characteristics of an F1 or F1B cross.  In looking at the genetics of a litter of multigenerational puppies, statistically 25% of the puppies will be genetically a purebred Golden Retriever, 50% would be like the parents (with a Goldendoodle appearance) and 25% of the puppies would be genetically a purebred poodle.  Our thought is this:  If you want a poodle, go to a poodle breeder; if you want a Golden Retriever, go a Golden Retriever breeder.  If you want a Goldendoodle, then get an F1 or F1B and your puppy will grow up with predictable characteristics.  If there are breeders who wish to turn the Goldendoodle into a purebred dog, they will need to have thousands of crosses to turn this mixed breed dog into a purebred.  But isn’t the hybrid vigor of unrelated parents the main point of a doodle?  A consistent “doodle” is our goal, so Sunshine Acres only raises the Moyen Poodle, the F1 Goldendoodle, the F1 Irish Goldendoodle and the F1B Irish Goldendoodle.

As dedicated  Goldendoodle breeders, we have focused on this wonderful cross so that we can offer you one of the best Goldendoodle puppies you can find.  We offer two different variations of our beloved Goldendoodle and the moyen (medium-sized) poodle.

      • Irish Goldendoodle (F1 Type 3) — Accepting deposits
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The largest size Goldendoodle is the royal standard size, which would usually be in the 70-90 pound size bracket.  We do not raise any Royal Standard size puppies.  Next in size would be the standard size Goldendoodle which would fall into the 55-70 pound range.  Sunshine Acres will have puppies that fall into this standard size range occasionally.  However, more often we will have a medium size Goldendoodle, which would fall between 35 and 55 pound as adults.  This medium size range doodle is large enough to romp with in the back yard or go for a run. They are small enough to be portable as well.  Some of our puppies will be on the lower end of this medium size range while others will be on the upper end of this range.  We do not raise mini Goldendoodles as their adult size is too variable.  We have met “mini-Goldendoodles” from other breeders who weighed 70 pounds.  Not so “mini” after all.

Image Credits to:

Sunshine Acres Irish Goldendoodles: Reagan, a F1 Goldendoodle from Chicago, Illinois; Ellie, an Irish Goldendoodle from Longmont Colorado; Wrigley Grant Bunegar, an Irish Goldendoodle from Chicago, IL; Oliver, an Irish Goldendoodle from Deerfield, IL; Scout and Huck, both Irish Goldendoodles from Whitefish, Montana; Finn, and Irish Goldendoodle from Wheaton, Illinois; Gracie, an Irish Goldendoodle from Bloomington, IN, and Molly from Denver, Colorado.

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