Melissa W

Dutchesscav Golden Retrievers

Wellington, VIC

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Dutchesscav is a small home style kennel where our dogs are family members first. We only breed occasionally and strive for well-tempered puppies that are healthy well-adjusted members of society.

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  • Breeding & Welfare
  • Health Practices
  • Home Environment
  • Documentation
  • Feeding
  • Physical Condition

Our Breeding Practices

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Behaviour and socialisation

We pride ourselves in raising happy, confident puppies that are very much a part of our family. Our puppies are raised in our home amongst all the craziness of being a busy household with younger children and we use Puppy Culture protocols to ensure we have well balanced babies. We take our puppies out to our…

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Health

Goldies - We fully DNA test as well as score hips and elbow score. We obtain eye certificates from an ophthalmologist and heart certificates from our local and well-renowned cardiac specialist. We feed a diet of Royal Canin kibble, Prime100 along with raw butcher supplied meat (lamb bones, chicken carcasses etc).

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Home environment

We live on small acreage, around 2 hours drive from Melbourne on a hobby farm with our dogs, cats, chickens and cows. We have some outdoor kennels space and designated indoor space. We have a whelping pen set up inside our open plan lounge and a large doggy room with a sliding door, which our dogs can use to go…

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Included with our puppies

With our puppies comes a comprehensive resource folder and Royal Canin puppy pack containing food, a measuring cup, toys, collar and lead. We supply Pedigree Papers and standard Dogs Victoria Breeder Contract.

Health Tests

Core Tests(3/3)

Dutchesscav Golden Retrievers conducts 3 out of 3 core health tests which RightPaw believe are most important to conduct for the Golden Retriever.

Elbow Dysplasia

Elbow Dysplasia

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These breeders have had x-rays taken on their breeding dogs to assess the quality of their elbow…

Eye Certificate

Eye Certificate

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An eye certificate means the breeder has had their breeding dogs examined by a veterinary…

Hip Dysplasia

Hip Dysplasia

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These breeders have had x-rays taken on their breeding dogs to assess their ‘hip score’. Dogs…

Additional Tests

Dutchesscav Golden Retrievers conducts 3 additional tests available for the Golden Retriever.

Badges of Recognition

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About the Breeder

Melissa W

Melissa W

Member since Mar 2021

A little about us

Hello, my name is Mel and I'm a mother of 3 children who are actively involved in raising puppies, I have an amazing job that I can travel around the state with my goldens as they are therapy dogs for a government program called the living safely with dogs program. I live on a little 5 acre property in longford…

Why we got involved in breeding

Having grown up with dogs all my life, they have always been and played an important role in my life. Before retiring, my Nana was a well known Corgi breeder, so we now have 3 generations strong of dog enthusiasts! My first Cavalier Dutchess brings me ample amounts of joy and will always be my first love. …

Our special touch

We are ethical breeders with a home style kennel, where our dogs are family members first and foremost.

Credentials

Association

Dogs Victoria (ANKC)

Association number

3100033217

Prefix

Dutchesscav

Breeding since

2010

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Price (approx.)A$3,500
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