Welcome to Griffith Kennels,

a breeder of gorgeous CKC Registered F1 Miniature Goldendoodles. At this point, we are only breeding first generation doodles (meaning that we use a female Golden Retriever and a male Toy Poodle). All of our dogs are both AKC and CKC registered. We are a small kennel located in Central Ohio on almost six acres in the country. We have had some exciting new changes in our breeding program for 2008. We are expanding our program to include Miniature Labradoodles, F1b Miniature Goldendoodles and F1b Miniature Labradoodles in the coming years. Our F1 b's are a few years out, but they will be a result of keeping some of our female doodles for our family and then breeding them to a non related Toy Poodle. All of this means that we have been blessed to add some new additions to our pet family.

We have retired a few of our dogs. They have been spayed and neutered and are still a part of the family. We have three Golden Retrievers in our breeding program. Glory, Olivia and Gracie are all three beautiful girls with wonderful personalities. Our breeding program also includes our two new male Toy Poodles. Both Petey and Cody are handsome boys with solid white coats. They both come from champion lines, are very small with nice long legs. Cody is an "off site stud", and lives with my husband's sister and her family. Rounding out our program are our two Labrador Retriever puppies. Bella is a beautiful, shiny black girl with English lines. Emme is an absolutely amazing chocolate girl who also comes from English lines. Starting this year, every Griffith Kennel puppy will not only come from wonderful dogs who are amazing pets, but will also have Champion lines.

These wonderful dogs all live here with my husband, myself and our 3 children. Each of the dogs are well socialized daily, and take turns spending time in the house. We have added some kennels in our attached garage, and now have two fenced in areas for our dogs. One is off of the patio door, and is for the little dogs. The other is off of the garage and has a doggie door into the garage so that the big dogs can come in and out as they please. We try to walk the dogs in the fields behind the house and down the road (a quite country road) as often as possible. It is not unusual to find all of the dogs sleeping in the kids bedrooms at night. When the weather is nice, they get to spend more time outside. Because these dogs are our pets, we try to make sure that they are having fun and enjoying life. We have two baby pools in the yard, and they love playing in the water when the weather is nice. The health of our dogs is also very important. We keep their immunizations up to date, and have them on both heartworm and flea preventative. They also daily receive vitamins and fish oil supplements. It is very important to me to make sure that these dogs are treated as treasured pets, because that is what they are.

Our pet family also includes 4 other dogs. Molly is our retired Golden Retriever, and she will be five this year. Bogie is our retired Miniature Poodle, Holly is our Boston Terrier and Mickey is our five pound Chihuahua. We have three cats, Twinkle a 14 year old Torti, Mittens a gray tiger stripped and Hop Along Cassidy (Go Bucks!) a Calico cat that we fostered from the Humane Society two years ago and fell in love with. Add a turtle named Franklin, two new horses (Doc and Josie), and several chickens and there you have our full house.

We work hard to take very good care of our pregnant and nursing dogs. We start supplementing their diets with puppy food, fresh beef and chicken, pasta and cottage cheese about half way into their pregnancy. This is continued until puppies are weaned and our mothers are looking and feeling good. We do not leave our girls when they are getting close to labor. All of our puppies are born in a baby pool in our family room under our close supervision. It is a family affair, and the kids stay home to help. Each puppy is identified with a different colored neck band at birth. This allows us to weigh them daily for the first two weeks, and then every couple of days after that. This way if a puppy does not gain weight one day, we are aware of it before it becomes a problem. We can then make sure that they are nursing well for the next few days. All of our babies receive a nickname at birth. This just seems more affectionate than Puppy one, two and three. Of course these names are just for our weight charts and records, so you will rename them when they join your family.

Our website is a work in progress, and we will be working towards updating everything in the coming weeks. Please check back to see a new page for Petey, Cody, Bella and Emme. We are also going to update our past puppy pages and references. Please take a look at our dogs and puppies. Hopefully you like what you see. Feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have. Thank You - Robin Griffith

 

We have a new litter of puppies due on May 12, 2008. Glory is our expectant mother, and Cody is the sire to this litter.