Our mission

"At Stokeshire Designer Doodles, we’re on a family mission to breed, raise, and train the world’s most beautiful, resilient, and intelligent dogs. With a focus on health, temperament, and trainability, our goal is to create lifelong companions and therapy dogs that bring joy, purpose, and adventure to their families."

Our Breeding Program: Purposeful, Passionate, and Proven - Since 2017!

Currently, we're working with five distinct breeds:

• Golden Retrievers

• Poodles

• Bernese Mountain Dogs

• Australian Shepherds

• Mini-American Shepherds

These breeds, in their various sizes, have been thoughtfully chosen to produce well-suited companions and therapy-grade dogs that not only look and feel remarkable—but are healthier, happier, and more intelligent than their progenitors.

Hand-Selected for Excellence

We have hand-selected these pedigrees to help us achieve our goal:
Delivering premium-quality puppies that have been well-cared for, trained, and intentionally handled before joining their forever homes.

We breed for:

• Health

• Temperament

• Beauty

• Trainability

Our puppies are hand-raised inside our home and studio, surrounded by an abundance of love, attention, and purposeful interaction.
We follow the Ultimate Badass Breeder’s Guide to support early neurological stimulation and foundational development.

Form Meets Function: The Power of Genetics

While beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, we believe our designer doodles will exceed your expectations in both character and conformation—with genetic superiority at their core.

Though we are not breeding purebreds exclusively, genetics matters.
We select dogs from champion and service/therapy bloodlines and intentionally breed with the theory of heterosis in mind.
This belief—that crossbreeding can produce superior qualities and lower COIs—guides us toward puppies with:

• Improved Health

• Longer lifespans

• Fewer vet visits

• Enhanced quality of life for both dog and family

Looking Ahead: The Future of the Stokeshire Breed

In the coming years, our goal is to develop our proprietary breed: the Stokeshire—an All-American Mutt, like us—an intentional blend of several foundational breeds, designed for:

• Modern homes

• Educational facilities

• Campuses

• Therapy & service settings

• Search and rescue teams

We also plan to continue producing Australian Mountain Doodles and Golden Mountain Doodles.

What You Can Expect from a Stokeshire Puppy

Our hope is that each puppy’s:

• Trainability

• Coat characteristics

• Intelligence

• Temperament

...result in heartwarming, head-turning companions for years of love and adventure.

For those selected for therapy or service, we envision lives transformed—where dogs in schools, hospitals, and healing spaces become the expectation, not the exception.

We dream of purpose-driven lives for our dogs—serving in diverse vocations and relationships, doing what we believe God designed them to do.

This Is More Than a Business

For us, Stokeshire is a lifelong dream—a passion born in childhood, when farm cats would deliver litters on our laps. That early bond with animals shaped us. Our pets changed us.
How will your dog change you for the better?

The Stokeshire Breeder Oath

At Stokeshire, we plan every litter with intention and integrity. Each pairing is made with a purpose, a focus, and a mission, tailored to meet the needs of our waitlist.

We Commit To:

Health, Temperament & Structure
Every parent is tested with EmbarkVet, ensuring healthy genetics for the next generation.

Parent Care
With the help of our guardian homes, we respect and honor our sires and dams with the best care—safe, enriching environments, quality food, vet care, and loving families.

Puppy Curriculum
A structured curriculum teaches puppies that the world is safe, people are kind, and dogs are friendly.

Puppy Development
We guide, shape, and mold puppies during critical learning periods, fostering confidence, emotional resilience, and appropriate social behaviors.

Puppy Evaluations
Each puppy is carefully evaluated, and we share these insights with families to help ensure the best possible match.

Lifetime Responsibility
We take 100% responsibility for every puppy we produce—for life. Each puppy is backed by a three-year guarantee.

Client Community
We educate and support our Stokeshire families and build a tight-knit, lifelong community of committed pet parents.

Love
We love what we do. We love our dogs. We love our clients.
This is a labor of love—and we are honored to serve.

Selecting Our Breeding Team

We seek out dogs who are:

• Motivated to work and please

• Highly trainable

• Affectionate and well-adjusted

• Comfortable with handling strangers

• Calm and confident

• Exhibit self-control and focus

• Show strong nerve strength and bounce back quickly from startling experiences

We avoid breeding dogs that exhibit:

• Excessive shyness

• Aggression

• Overly submissive or anxious tendencies

We choose dogs who are eager partners—ones that will thrive in homes, schools, and service roles alike.