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About Us
We are Barb and Sue, we live in a dog loving family in South West Victoria. We have both had a love of dogs from a young age having grown up with them.
Barb has been involved with the Delta Therapy Dog Society having trained three of her dogs for the program, obedience dog training and now works as Pet Educator in The Responsible Pet Education Program with our Spoodle Tucker. This involves taking Tucker into schools and kindergartens teaching children how to care for their own dogs as well as approach dogs they don't know.
Sue grew up on a farm with working dogs, Border Collie’s were her favourite breed until we got our first Australian Cobberdog Penny! Now she has two favourites!!
We decided to also go into the world of breeding these beautiful dogs as Sue had always had an interest in breeding dogs but the time had never been right until she met Barb.
With Barbs knowledge and experience of dogs we set about looking for a breed that we both would enjoy and on our search we found Australian Cobberdogs.
We found they are the perfect mix, the intelligence similar to the Border Collie and a dog that really loves being around people like the Spoodles. When Penny joined our little fur family she did not disappoint!
We believe what sets us apart as breeders is our love and commitment to our pups and their new families by providing a lifetime of support from us.
In our ethical breeding program we focus on giving the pups the best start in life with early neutralisation and desensitisation including crate training, toilet training etc so they go to their new homes happy, well rounded and confident. We also love hearing what our pups are get up to with their families if they wish to.
Despite being a small breeder we are committed to help develop the breed. Our aim is to breed sound quality dogs that are health and dna tested.
Spring Hills Moonlit Penelope Grace
Meet Penny, she is our first Australian Cobberdog and will be the foundation for our breeding program. So far Penny has been a joy and watching her develop every day is wonderful.
Her personality is always happy, inquisitive, calm but fun, very busy and a typical puppy. She has a nature like no other, loves the other dogs and our cats and has really captivated everyone she has met so far.
She's very inquisitive and watches knowingly everything that goes on. She has learnt the ropes extremely quickly and slotted into our family life like she's always been here.
Penny loves water and loves to swim and paddle board with us in Summer and winter if she had her way!!
Penny has smarts like we have never soon before quite often making her own games to occupy herself. her disposition is alway happy and she just goes with the flow and loves life.
Pentuckylou
Flamin Secret Ripley
"Ripley Joe"
Ripley was chosen out of a litter of 10 Puppies who were all exceptional. His quiet and intuitive nature was evident from a very early age. Ripley will be trained to be a therapy dog and join us in a new business venture in 2023/24 and also join me in 2024 to be a pet education dog. Ripley has joined our breeding program now that all testing has been completed. He has a wavy coat, clear DNA and good hips and elbows. Ripley is now available for stud services.
Ripley Joe
Pentuckylou Cowboy
Pending all health testing in 2025 Cowboy will be joining our breeding program.
Pentuckylou Rabbit
"Hugo"
Hugo lives with his gaurdian family and is certainly living his best life. He's a lovely confident well rounded boy who is a real love bug. His temperament is divine and he is very connected and in tune with his humans.
Hugo's DOB is 7/1/22 and the is available to other breeders for stud services, his coat is straight, his DNA is clear and his hips are excellent. He really is the whole package.
Our first home grown Pentuckylou litter
Penny presented us with 6 gorgeous puppies on 7th January 2022
With thanks to Alexis at Ash Tree Farm Australian Cobberdogs in Tasmania for helping us achieve this gorgeous bunch of puppies.
Penny and Fergus
Pennys second litter
Penny's second litter was a big litter of 10 gorgeous puppies. Many thanks to Leah at Daley Connections Australian Cobberdogs and her boy Walter for helping us achieve this gorgeous and much anticipated Litter.
Penny and Walter 2022
Pentuckylou Sun Shine "Annie"
Annie was from Penny's first litter
Annie graced us with 6 beautiful puppies in April 2024 With many thanks to Callum House Cobberdogs for their beautiful boy Gecko who sired this lovely litter. Annie lives with her lovely guardian family and one of her puppies who will join our breeding program in 2025/2026
Pennny's third and final litter
Penny delivered 7 beautiful puppies in May 2024
With thanks to Leah and her boy Walter at Daley Connections this was a repeat mating and the puppies were all exceptional.
How we raise our puppies
Our puppies are born and raised in our home.
We have an inside nursery and an outside puppy area.
We do lots of things with the puppies
to help them become
the very best k9 companion for their families.
This includes some early neural stimulation and as they develop
we desensitise and neutralise puppies to absolutely every we can.
Puppies go to homes crate trained and well on thier way to being toilet trained.
We pride ourselves on our puppies being well rounded and
confident when they leave us.
We only raise one litter at a time so we can put all of our time into them.
Each puppy gets lot of individual attention and time spent on them.
Cobberdogs
love the water
Penny and all the Cobberdogs we know have a great affinity with the water and swimming comes very natural to them.
Our Dog Family
Below are some photos of our dogs enjoying life with us.
Lacy Bronson and Tucker are Spoodles.
Sally is a Border Collie and The Cobberdogs are Penny, Laddie, Ripley and Cowboy.
Our lives revole around our dogs and we include them in most aspects of our lives.
Sadly we lost our two older Spoodles in 2022
but they were instrumental in bringing us to our breeding journey.
RIGHT PAW
Right Paw connects trusted breeders with responsible owners, they makes finding a dog online simpler, safer, and more supportive.
They only work with breeders that meet our vet-approved Code of Ethics, to build a responsible breeder community for the future.
Built together with vets and breeders, we create time-saving tools for responsible breeders to help manage their puppy applications.
RightPaw, believe the biggest difference you can make to a dog’s life is at the very beginning. We help dogs and owners start off on the RightPaw.
Here at Pentuckylou We love what Right Paw stands for and they help us manage our applications and find the perfect homes for our puppies.
See below for our Right Paw profile and how to apply for a puppy.
Puppy Application Process
As responsible Dog Breeders, we carefully screen potential owners to make sure they understand exactly what is required when it comes to taking care of these beautiful dogs. We don't sell our puppies on a first come first serve basis. With the help of Right Paw you can view more about us and make an enquiry via our Right Paw Profile.
Please note we are only accepting applications through Right Paw for other queries about the breed or enquiries about becoming a guardian please use one of our methods of contact at the bottom of the page.
Guardian Homes
A Guardian Home is a permanent home for one of our breeding males or females.
Here at Pentuckylou Australian Cobberdogs we believe that every dog deserves to have a loving, forever home. All of our dogs are part of our family and live in our home rather than kennels so that we know they are getting as much attention as possible. Because of this we will offer a Guardian Home Program. We think the dogs in our breeding program deserve a home of their own from the beginning.
The puppy is then raised by her or his forever family and comes back to us to have a litter or two of pups when the dog is old enough to do so. There is a contract and terms and conditions to be followed by us and the new owners till which time the contract ends.
There is financial benefit to the guardian home so If you think this is something you would be interested in or like more information about please email us or reach out on our socials to get a better understanding of what's involved. Ideally we would love our guardian dogs to be within a three hour radius from where we live.
