About Us

Here at Southern California Kennels our family has over 15 years of experience breeding show quality Golden Retrievers. We have produced several of our own champions and all of our dogs come from champion bloodlines. 

During the past 10 years we slowly transitioned over to breeding only Goldendoodles.

We did this for several reasons, better over health in the Goldendoodle being the main reason and secondly the low to no shedding.

At Southern California Kennels, our home is our kennel, and we have turned our home into a home for the dogs! We live in Palmdale California (LA County), on three acres of all usable land and we have a huge swimming pool, for people and dogs! The dogs also have their own plastic baby pools in the summer and misters in all the dog runs. We built a huge whelping room (25 x 36) for puppies and their mother's. The whelping room is insulated better than our main house and it's air conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter. This is where we whelp and raise our puppies. Whelping and raising the puppies indoors keeps our precious newborns out of harms way and free from disease.

When our puppies are old enough to come out side of the whelping room at about 6-7 weeks of age, weather permitting, they are then brought out to our back yard with their mother's during the day. They are kept in x-large dog runs right next to our bedroom window, where we can keep a close eye on them when we are inside the house. Each run having their own igloo dog houses, with trees, grass, and concrete that is sanitized daily. The back yard is a separate fenced off area away from the adult kennel and exercise area shown below. At night we bring the pups back into the whelping room and put them to bed in dog crates or a puppy pen, this gets them started on crate training. Then at 6:00 am they come back out into the back yard again to go potty, eat breakfast, and start a new day! Unless of course if it's raining or too cold, then they can stay inside the whelping room in a large exercise pen on cedar shavings. The cedar shavings keep them clean and fresh smelling.

Our adult dogs (besides the mother's of the puppies that are in the whelping room), sleep in x-large covered dog runs at night. Each dog having their own dog run with an igloo doghouse and all the runs are sanitized daily. During the day we have an acre dedicated just for them, that they can run and play in all day.

 

Click here for an aerial view of our home/kennel: http://www.satelliteviews.net/my-house.htm - you will need to copy and paste our address onto that page: 41751 25th Street West, Palmdale CA 93551.

We have 3 children living with us, ages 9, 11 and 17 and they are in the back yard every day playing with the puppies. And, before the puppies come out into the yard, my children are in the whelping room every day after school helping us clean and care for the puppies, so the puppies are constantly getting plenty of love, care, and socialization with the entire family. We also have puppy pens set up in the living room of the main house and the puppies spend a lot of time inside the main house with us as well.

Our 17 year old wants to be an animal control officer when she turns 18, and when she's not playing with the dogs, or caring for her horse, she's volunteering at the animal shelter.

The rest of our menagerie includes 2 pound cats, a horse and about 20 chickens. We live in a ranch area, where everyone has animals; horses, goats, geese, chickens, donkeys, sheep, cows, and ducks - it's a great place to live! Our two younger children are involved in 4H.

All our dogs are well socialized and get to do lots of fun things. We take them camping and swimming and out to the dessert with us when we go to Dew Mont Dunes or Dove Springs in the winter. In the summer we take them to Lake Havasu and believe you me, they have a blast! We also alternate dogs each time we go any where, to make sure they all get to have fun!

Anyone who has met our dogs can tell you that they are raised with love, you can tell by their friendly loving nature. We are home all day outside with the dogs, cleaning, grooming, and playing ball for exercise! And when we go out of town we have a full time in home pet sitter "Tony". Tony lives right next door to us and he raises Puggles!

We take great pride in the way we raise our puppies and care for our dogs, that's why we have a grade A from animal control. We welcome SURPRISE visits from animal control as they do not tell us when they're coming to inspect us, we always pass with flying colors, far surpassing their expectations! On our "Testimonials" page you can also read our client's testimonials.

AND DID YOU KNOW?

Southern California Kennels has a grade "A" from LA county animal control and the health and environmental services. Licensed kennels receive grades just like restaurants. Just like you would never want to eat at a restaurant with a grade lower than an "A", you would never want to buy or board a dog from a kennel with any less of a grade either! We have our score-card posted in the window right next to our front door, yes just like a restaurant! That is the law, and we are proud of our grade, it's the highest score possible!

Of course some breeders will make excuses for why they are not licensed; they are only private parties, or they are only hobby breeders and they only have one or maybe two litters a year. A hobby is collecting dolls, or trains, not selling dogs!

Did you know that California law states that even if you only have one litter a year, you must still have a litter permit from animal control. And if you are going to have more than one litter per year, then you must have an actual kennel license and not just a one-time litter permit.

Also anyone, breeder or private party, that owns more than 3 dogs must have a kennel license. Finally, you must also have a seller's permit (issued from the state board of equalization) to sell the puppies. The only time you wouldn't need a seller's permit, is if your dog became pregnant "by mistake" and this was really just a once in a "lifetime" occurrence. But if your going to sell more than one litter ever in your entire "lifetime", then you need a seller's permit. If a person sells puppies without having a seller's permit it's a misdemeanor to a felony. The only animals exempt from being sold with sales tax, are animals sold for food consumption, farm animals, not pets!

Southern California Kennels is a licensed kennel with a score of "A" and a seller's permit. We meet all the criteria of a REPUTABLE breeder!

But do not confuse a kennel license issued from our local animal control with a USDA license issued from the USDA, they are two very different licenses. A USDA license is for large scale puppy mills, that sell puppies to pet stores and brokers. No one is allowed to sell a puppy to a pet store or to a broker without a USDA license, the same license they issue to farmers. That is why when a pet store claims they get their puppies from a local breeder, they are flat out deceiving the public, to find out more click here: www.PrisonersofGreed.org/

So as you can see by the breeder having a seller's permit and by charging sales tax, it shows the buyer that the breeder is paying taxes and abiding by the law. Isn't it disturbing to think of all the breeders out there that are selling puppies and are completely under the table. Figure a litter of 9 puppies at $1200 each ($1200 is just a random made up figure) = $10,800. And you know that some breeders have multiple litters at a time and are selling them for a lot more money than just $1200 a puppy. And here you are working hard and contributing back to society by paying your taxes, while they are skirting the law and making under the table money. This is not meant to sound resentful, it's just meant to be an eye opener for you the hard working tax payer! Please do not keep these unethical breeders in business by buying puppies from them.

Buy from us or other breeders like us, that are "licensed" and pay taxes like you. Taxes are needed for our police, our fire fighters, our streets and roads- among too many other things to list. Why should they get to make tax free money.

Please go to the "About Breeders" page of our website for more information on selecting an ethical responsible-reputable breeder!