Lovelocks
Australian Cobberdogs
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Our commitment to you:
Adding a Lovelocks Australian Cobberdog to your family gives you peace of mind, we love our dogs and you will too!
Ethical Breeder
As a registered breeder with the Master Dog Breeders & Associates (MDBA) we are committed to upholding the core values and code of ethics in both our breeding practices and professionalism with our puppy families.
Our dogs are treated with love and respect and have an exceptional quality of life living in our home on a small acreage where they have safe spaces to run, roam, sniff and explore. We do not kennel our dogs, rather limit the number living with us to ensure they are always included in family life, fed a nutrient dense, holistic enriching diet, engaged in meaningful activities including attending work settings, obedience and agility training, and regular car trips to the beach.
We utilize the guardian program as we believe that every dog deserves to have their own family. Our breeding dogs have a relative short breeding period, and for our guardians its even shorter, with females having only 2 litters before being de-sexed and returned to live with their forever family.
Health Guarantee
Our breeding dogs are comprehensively health assessed including DNA screened for all known hereditary diseases relevant to the breed (for full list see HERE), hips and elbows are x-rayed and assessed for both conformation, and hip laxity scored using PennHip and OFA methods.
We take 100% responsibility for every pup we have bred. Starting in the whelping box, ensuring a healthy clean climate controlled whelping room in our house, with appropriate traction (hip health) in the box. A staged approach to environmental enrichment and exposure activities to ensure safe healthy play, that allows exploration in-tune with development, protecting developing puppy’s bodies from early age damages.
Puppies are raised on a nutrient dense whole foods diet, studies have shown when puppies are started on whole, raw foods, and continue this diet into adulthood, significantly reduce the risk of allergies, skin diseases and atopy-related skin symptoms (AASS).
Our breeding practices include age appropriate de-worming, vaccination and veterinary health check before puppies leave for their new families.
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Socialised Puppy
We put a lot of time into our puppies including early neurological stimulation and follow age-appropriate focused puppy curriculum to guide, shape, and mold puppies based upon critical learning periods constantly evaluating and adjusting, to strengthen confidence, nerve strength and startle recovery. Take a look at our RAISING PUPPIES PAGE to see how we empower pups to be the best they can be, with aims of having pups leave us with confidence the world is safe, people are kind, and dogs are friendly.
We want to give them the best chance of settling into life with their families and growing into confident, obedient, loving family companions.
Family Raised
Our dogs are raised alongside our family, they live in our home and have regular outings, including car trips, mountain hikes, beach picnics, work visits and obedience or agility training.
Our pups are whelped in a climate-controlled room within our home and exposed to various areas and stimulus in the home environment including normal day to day living (tv, washing machine, vacuum, comings and goings of people). In line with pups development, we move to outside puppy play parks attached to the house for day play and come in and settle at night after having a cuddle on the couch. This mimics how they will live when moving to their new families and assist with the transition into their forever home.
We are breeding family companions and not yard dogs, as such our pups are raised with all the sights and sounds of family life. We do not kennel our dogs.