Hello, I'm Cassandra and Samantha H.

We are Cass and Sam and both have our own established businesses in dog boarding and training and have come together to form Lovedale Labradoodles. Having known and worked with each other for over 11 years now, we completed our training at the National Dog Trainers’ Federation in 2016. As Trainers, we were both drawn to the critical socialisation period of puppies and helping owners develop positive relationships with their pups/dogs. We are also passionate about training Therapy and Facility Dogs for a variety of settings including; schools organisations such as Headspace medical practices therapy settings personal therapy dogs More recently we have assisted the Department of Education NSW in developing their guidelines and policies for having Therapy Dogs in Schools. We are continuing to help develop procedures and policies to enable dogs in schools to be as successful as it possibly can be as we are constantly witnessing the benefits having a well suited therapy dog in a school setting can be. We offer a guardian programme for our breeding dogs which allows them to live with a family of their own and return to us for breeding. We also train and board dogs on our premises, give lessons, run workshops and train puppies/dogs to become Therapy/Facility dogs in schools, homes, businesses, medical settings etc - you could say we’re dog enthusiasts! All of the above led us to wanting to further develop the Australian Labradoodle and work with ethical breeders who are as committed as we are. We absolutely love what we do!