About Us
Welcome to Legacy Cockapoos where sound health and temperaments come first!
We are a small home based breeder in Woodville ON. Let me start off by saying all our breeding dogs are Family members first and foremost and remain in our home or in their guardian home their entire life and are never re-homed when they are no longer suitable for breeding! We believe every dog deserves to live a family lifestyle just like any other dog. Our dogs never live in a kennel environment, they are all bed warmers and couch potatoes here! The health and happiness of our dogs comes first and foremost! We only breed a few litters a year to ensure we have time to care for each puppy born to us properly. All are puppies are raised in a loving family environment and handled by children from birth. All our Mamas are retired by 4yrs of age and only have 1-3 litters in their entire breeding careers. Our puppies are raised with ENS, Puppy Culture and BAB Protocols, Puppy temperament testing is preformed at 7 weeks of age on each and every puppy to ensure the very best fit for each family and puppy. All our parent dogs have completed genetic health testing and OFA certifications. We believe in strong genetics not "hybrid vigor" make healthy dogs and raising puppies correctly with the right foundations make well balanced dogs for life. We believe optimal nutrition is key to a healthy long lived dog. Because of this we feed a human grade balanced raw diet paired with daily multi-vitamins, omega 3,6,9,supplement and a high quality daily canine probiotic. Good external health begins with good internal health. We offer lifetime Breeder support and a lifetime Genetic Guarantee and we stand behind our pups!!!
We breed a bit differently here at Legacy then many other breeders. We do not breed our litters and then look to place them in loving homes. Rather we pre-screen potential families and only when their application is approved do we accept a deposit for a future puppy from Legacy. We only breed when a litter is already spoken for meaning if you place a deposit with us we are specifically breeding a puppy just for you! We believe this is responsible breeding.
We breed with purpose and each litter we breed is bred for health, temperament, and over all conformation to conform to the breed standard for the Cockapoo and push the Cockapoo forward as a breed. It has taken many years and many generations but we are now seeing more predictability in the over all look and temperament of our dogs and it is very exciting for the future of the Cockapoo as a breed. This has been achieved through genetic and temperament testing, and careful consideration of over all conformation of each and every dog selected to represent the cockapoo moving forward. The Cockapoo is bred to be the ultimate family and companion and excels in both service and therapy work.
We breed f2 through to multi-generation Cockapoos and the odd back breeding to Poodles but we try not to use to much poodle as doing this sacrifices the ideal wavy cockapoo coat, heavier bone structure and overall temperament. The goal is to breed a whole new breed "the a cockapoo" not a poorly bred poodle.
All our dogs come with a traceable and tracked lineage/pedigree going back generations. Documenting the lineages of our cockapoos is an important part of moving the cockapoo forward as a breed. It also help insure we are not line or inbreeding any of our lines to ensure the healthiest and most diverse gene pool moving forward.
Our Beginnings!
My love affair with Cockapoos started in 1996 when I received my first Cockapoo. A beautiful Sable girl which I named "Samantha". I quickly fell in love with her many wonderful qualities. Sadly I was told like many people "hybrid dog" means "hybrid vigor" and my dog would be healthier than any purebred dog because of this. WRONG! This is a half truth. While combining two different breeds does limit the amount of genetic disorders passed on due to a large gene pool, any genetic disorder both parent breeds carry can be passed onto their offspring. Unfortunately "Samantha" developed Progressive Rod Cone Atrophy (PRA-PRCD) this meant at a young age she went completely blind from her retinas detaching. She also had grade 2/3 luxating patella (knees popped in and out of joints) .These are both well known disorders in both Cockers and Poodles. I also had a grooming client with a Cockapoo from the same breeder (but different litter and parents) that also developed PRA-PRCD (this dog went completely blind in 2 weeks). Imagine my frustration and anger to learn that this is a hereditary disorder that had been passed on from their parents due to bad/ignorant breeding practices. This experience spurred me into researching Cockapoos and their breeders. I was shocked that I could find no breeders doing any health/DNA testing/screenings of any kind on their Cockapoo parents in Canada. As far as I could tell 90% of "breeders" were back yard breeders with a Cocker and a Poodle looking to make a quick buck! And the other 10% wanted you to be impressed with their breeding dogs fancy purebred registration papers which means nothing for a hybrid puppy! No one really seemed to care about the genetic soundness of their dogs. Shouldn't hybrid dogs be held to the same health standards as purebred dogs? I thought so! And so started this wonderful life filling adventure onto breeding Cockapoos. Gratefully their are more breeders genetically testing and preforming Hip/patella/elbow clearances these days then when I started, but sadly still not nearly enough.
We are a small home based breeder in Woodville ON. Let me start off by saying all our breeding dogs are Family members first and foremost and remain in our home or in their guardian home their entire life and are never re-homed when they are no longer suitable for breeding! We believe every dog deserves to live a family lifestyle just like any other dog. Our dogs never live in a kennel environment, they are all bed warmers and couch potatoes here! The health and happiness of our dogs comes first and foremost! We only breed a few litters a year to ensure we have time to care for each puppy born to us properly. All are puppies are raised in a loving family environment and handled by children from birth. All our Mamas are retired by 4yrs of age and only have 1-3 litters in their entire breeding careers. Our puppies are raised with ENS, Puppy Culture and BAB Protocols, Puppy temperament testing is preformed at 7 weeks of age on each and every puppy to ensure the very best fit for each family and puppy. All our parent dogs have completed genetic health testing and OFA certifications. We believe in strong genetics not "hybrid vigor" make healthy dogs and raising puppies correctly with the right foundations make well balanced dogs for life. We believe optimal nutrition is key to a healthy long lived dog. Because of this we feed a human grade balanced raw diet paired with daily multi-vitamins, omega 3,6,9,supplement and a high quality daily canine probiotic. Good external health begins with good internal health. We offer lifetime Breeder support and a lifetime Genetic Guarantee and we stand behind our pups!!!
We breed a bit differently here at Legacy then many other breeders. We do not breed our litters and then look to place them in loving homes. Rather we pre-screen potential families and only when their application is approved do we accept a deposit for a future puppy from Legacy. We only breed when a litter is already spoken for meaning if you place a deposit with us we are specifically breeding a puppy just for you! We believe this is responsible breeding.
We breed with purpose and each litter we breed is bred for health, temperament, and over all conformation to conform to the breed standard for the Cockapoo and push the Cockapoo forward as a breed. It has taken many years and many generations but we are now seeing more predictability in the over all look and temperament of our dogs and it is very exciting for the future of the Cockapoo as a breed. This has been achieved through genetic and temperament testing, and careful consideration of over all conformation of each and every dog selected to represent the cockapoo moving forward. The Cockapoo is bred to be the ultimate family and companion and excels in both service and therapy work.
We breed f2 through to multi-generation Cockapoos and the odd back breeding to Poodles but we try not to use to much poodle as doing this sacrifices the ideal wavy cockapoo coat, heavier bone structure and overall temperament. The goal is to breed a whole new breed "the a cockapoo" not a poorly bred poodle.
All our dogs come with a traceable and tracked lineage/pedigree going back generations. Documenting the lineages of our cockapoos is an important part of moving the cockapoo forward as a breed. It also help insure we are not line or inbreeding any of our lines to ensure the healthiest and most diverse gene pool moving forward.
Our Beginnings!
My love affair with Cockapoos started in 1996 when I received my first Cockapoo. A beautiful Sable girl which I named "Samantha". I quickly fell in love with her many wonderful qualities. Sadly I was told like many people "hybrid dog" means "hybrid vigor" and my dog would be healthier than any purebred dog because of this. WRONG! This is a half truth. While combining two different breeds does limit the amount of genetic disorders passed on due to a large gene pool, any genetic disorder both parent breeds carry can be passed onto their offspring. Unfortunately "Samantha" developed Progressive Rod Cone Atrophy (PRA-PRCD) this meant at a young age she went completely blind from her retinas detaching. She also had grade 2/3 luxating patella (knees popped in and out of joints) .These are both well known disorders in both Cockers and Poodles. I also had a grooming client with a Cockapoo from the same breeder (but different litter and parents) that also developed PRA-PRCD (this dog went completely blind in 2 weeks). Imagine my frustration and anger to learn that this is a hereditary disorder that had been passed on from their parents due to bad/ignorant breeding practices. This experience spurred me into researching Cockapoos and their breeders. I was shocked that I could find no breeders doing any health/DNA testing/screenings of any kind on their Cockapoo parents in Canada. As far as I could tell 90% of "breeders" were back yard breeders with a Cocker and a Poodle looking to make a quick buck! And the other 10% wanted you to be impressed with their breeding dogs fancy purebred registration papers which means nothing for a hybrid puppy! No one really seemed to care about the genetic soundness of their dogs. Shouldn't hybrid dogs be held to the same health standards as purebred dogs? I thought so! And so started this wonderful life filling adventure onto breeding Cockapoos. Gratefully their are more breeders genetically testing and preforming Hip/patella/elbow clearances these days then when I started, but sadly still not nearly enough.