Guardian Homes
Learn More about becoming a Guardian Family!
What is a guardian?
At Joyfully Golden we believe in quality of our dogs. We also believe that a dog is more than a pet, they are part of our family. We value that all the dogs we bring into this world live in the house full of life and full of joy with their people.
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This belief is not just for our puppies but for our adults who make the puppies possible. We wanted to expand our program however we wanted to make sure that every dog we had not only was healthy but had their own family.
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In order to do that we have implemented the Guardian Program. The Guardian program allows for you to have a “pick of the litter puppy”, or adolescent/adult breeding dog for free. This puppy or dog is part of your family forever, while the breeding rights/ownership are retained by Joyfully Golden for a short-term amount of time. Once this dog has completed his/her breeding career (3-4 litters for female), he/she will be spayed or neutered at our expense.
This dog will always remain a forever member of your family and at the end of our short-term contract will become your full pet!
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The dog will live full time with you and only come back to us for breeding and whelping/weaning.
Guardian Males will be used at most 1-2 times per month.
Family must live within a reasonable distance to Portland Metro area.
Please Feel Free to email for more details
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Upcoming Guardians Opportunities
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Henry
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Retired Guardians
Mama Sam is retired after three litters with us. Two of her puppies have joined our program as up and coming studs. She retired with her guardian recently moved to San Diego and loves her three walks a day and strolling the beach on the weekends!
Sunshine retired after three beautiful Joyfully Golden litters. She still lives here with us, and continues to work as a therapy dog in pediatrics.
Coco is retired after three beautiful litters. Two of her puppies have joined our program as up and coming studs. She is retired with her guardian in Vancouver and is enjoying the country life with her mama.
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Chloie is retired in her guardian home after two amazing litters with us at Joyfully Golden. She had harder labors and we decided to retire her before it became an issue. Chloie was from our first Preacher/Sunshine litter. We kept a male back from each litter for a potential stud, in order to keep those great Sunshine and Preacher lines going! She gets to spend all her days now frolicking around her 15 acres!
Maisy has been retired prior to using in our program due to not meeting out standards of breeding stock. Thank you all for continued support to breed quality puppies. She is retired with her family and enjoys long walks with her mama.
Piper (different than Henry's mom) has been retired prior to using in our program due to not meeting our standards of breeding stock. Thank you all for continued support to breed quality puppies. She is retired with her family and moved back east!
Miah has been retired prior to using in our program due to not meeting our standards of temperament in breeding stock. Thank you all for continued support to breed quality puppies. She is retired on acreage in the country getting spoiled every day!