06/02/2023
✨About us✨
We are a team, husband and wife both passionate about dogs and raising them to their best potential! We love to gather and consider information at length before making decisions thus why we have such a high level of quality. We are both in engineering, which explains our attention to details that can be seen in the way we raise and breed our dogs. We are always looking for ways to improve ourselves and our breeding program.
While searching for our dogs family members we were alarmed how there were very little breeders doing health testing and temperament evaluations in the Maritime provinces, how there was a lack of educated breeders, transparency and quality customer service. First we started researching about breeding before adopting our first breeding prospect, River our F1 Standard Sheepadoodle summer 2019. We selected her from the litter based on her temperament using the Volhard Puppy Aptitude Test on Home Day. River was such a healthy, well balanced and easy to train puppy, she in fact trained our dog, at the time he was mischievous. She is the most perfect dog we could ask for our family, our best friend. We felt we needed to ''reproduce more of her'', give other families the opportunity to have such a great dog! Our experience raising her only supported our dream of having puppies. We started EcoHome Grown in the winter 2020-2021 and had our first litter of mini/moyen F1b Sheepadoodles in December 2021.
Throughout the years we researched, completed courses, and continued learning because we put our heart into our work and take the creation of your new dog, family member very seriously. We currently have four dogs as part of our family and breeding program, River a F1 Sheepadoodle (retired with us) and Jasper an Old English Sheepdog that are both our family dogs, Stevie a Moyen Poodle and Agate a Standard Poodle both live in such amazing Guardian Homes, families that we are very grateful to have as part of our EcoHome Grown family.
We have a small homestead, located on 9 acres of wooden land in Memramcook, New-Brunswick, where we raise our dogs and grow a lot of own organic food with the permaculture approach. We all live in our dream eco-home we designed and created together, a modern solar-powered Net Zero home "rated zero greenhouse gas emissions" designed using passive house standards from Germany. Our dogs are in the center of our lives, aside from raising empowered Sheepadoodles as a family, we love to learn, research and take courses, walk, train, take training classes, go on adventures, hiking, exploring, camping and homesteading always with our dogs by our side enjoying life together as a family.
🙌 Creating top of the line Sheepadoodles is our main focus. We follow breeding practices well above breeding standards. We raise puppies to their best potentials using proven practices developed by leading specialists to raise better dogs. 🙌
✨ First, we research, train and test our males and females to ensure that we have the best health and temperament before considering for breeding.
✨ From the day they are born our puppies are raised closed to us, close to our faces and hearts so they develop a strong connection to humans.
✨ We perform Early Neurological Stimulation and Early Scent Introduction to improve trainability, health and potential.
✨ Every day we perform ‘’puppy massages’’ that are 10-step handling exercises to ensure puppies are well exposed to being touched and handled by humans.
✨ We empower our puppies, with age-appropriate socialization and guide them through different types of activities in order to teach them to be brave and build confidence. They are challenged and worked daily to create intelligent, balanced dogs that display good nerve strength, learn great problem-solving skills and a positive association to learning and training. We raise all puppies as if they will all become service dogs.
✨ We perform temperament evaluations when puppies are 7.5 weeks old, it takes us a minimum of 16 hours of evaluations, reviews and writing notes, in order to identify each puppy strengths and weaknesses to honor our puppies, help with placing them in families where they will thrive and for each family to have the puppy that best suit their needs, experience and lifestyle.
✨ We remain responsible for all of the dogs adopted from us, give our adoptive families lifetime support, and share our knowledge to help and inspire to advocate for their dogs.
We love to share our journey raising our puppies and thank you so much for supporting what we do. ❤️
