Washington is home to eighteen ALAA-registered Australian Labradoodle breeders, split fairly evenly between the dry ranch country east of the Cascades and the wetter Puget Sound region to the west.
This guide covers what’s confirmed about each program’s location and health-testing record, plus the state law and regional health risk Washington buyers should know before reserving a puppy.
Eastern Washington’s Seven ALAA Breeders
Spokane anchors the eastern half of the state’s ALAA membership, with four programs registered there or in its immediate suburbs, plus outposts in Richland and Colbert.
This side of the Cascades gets far less rain than Seattle, and summers run hot and dry, which is worth knowing if you’re relocating a puppy from a wetter climate.
Aspen Grove Labradoodles
Marybeth Porter runs Aspen Grove Labradoodles out of Spokane and holds ALAA’s Platinum Paw, the association’s top health-testing tier.
Location: Spokane, Washington
Website: Aspen Grove Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Platinum Paw)
Hills West Labradoodles
Tamara Marlin operates Hills West Labradoodles from Richland, in the Tri-Cities area, and holds an ALAA Silver Paw.
Location: Richland, Washington
Website: Hills West Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Blue Star Labradoodles
Katie Kuiper and Carol Stover co-run Blue Star Labradoodles out of Colbert, just north of Spokane, and hold an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Colbert, Washington
Website: Blue Star Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
Brickhaven Labradoodles
Jamie Brickner breeds under the Brickhaven Labradoodles name in Liberty Lake, a Spokane suburb near the Idaho border, and holds an ALAA Silver Paw.
Location: Liberty Lake, Washington
Website: Brickhaven Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Ever After Multi-generational Australian Labradoodles
Jean Dimmel runs Ever After Multi-generational Australian Labradoodles, a second Spokane-based program, and holds an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Spokane, Washington
Website: Ever After Multi-generational Australian Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
Little Creek Labradoodles
Tami Johnson operates Little Creek Labradoodles, a third Spokane program, and holds an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Spokane, Washington
Website: Little Creek Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
Highland Tails Australian Labradoodles
Emily Carver rounds out Spokane’s cluster with Highland Tails Australian Labradoodles. The program doesn’t currently hold a Paw distinction, which is typical for a newer ALAA member.
Location: Spokane, Washington
Website: Highland Tails Australian Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (no Paw distinction on record)
Puget Sound’s Eleven ALAA Breeders
The remaining eleven Washington programs are scattered from the Olympic Peninsula down through Seattle and Tacoma to the state capital, Olympia.
That stretch of coastline and inland valleys gets a lot more rain than the eastern side of the state but stays milder in winter.
Moonlit Acres Labradoodles
Dana Logan runs Moonlit Acres Labradoodles out of Battle Ground, just north of Vancouver, Washington, and holds an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Battle Ground, Washington
Website: Moonlit Acres Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
Victoria Creek Australian Labradoodles
Janet Nyberg and Daryl Garman co-run Victoria Creek Australian Labradoodles from Stanwood, north of Everett, and hold an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Stanwood, Washington
Website: Victoria Creek Australian Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
Barberry Brook Labradoodles
Bonnie Stanhope operates Barberry Brook Labradoodles out of Arlington, also north of Everett, and holds an ALAA Silver Paw.
Location: Arlington, Washington
Website: Barberry Brook Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Discovery Tails Labradoodles
Vicki McCormack runs Discovery Tails Labradoodles from Sequim, out on the Olympic Peninsula, and holds an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Sequim, Washington
Website: Discovery Tails Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
Foothills Labradoodles
Alissa Jared operates Foothills Labradoodles out of Bonney Lake, near Mount Rainier’s western foothills, and holds an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Bonney Lake, Washington
Website: Foothills Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
West Valley Australian Labradoodles
Tatyana Vakulich runs West Valley Australian Labradoodles from Auburn, between Seattle and Tacoma, and holds an ALAA Silver Paw.
Location: Auburn, Washington
Website: West Valley Australian Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Kerry’s Labradoodles of Seattle
Kerry Vander Wel breeds out of Lynnwood, just north of Seattle, under the name Kerry’s Labradoodles of Seattle. The program doesn’t currently hold a Paw distinction.
Location: Lynnwood, Washington
Website: Kerry’s Labradoodles of Seattle
Registry: ALAA (no Paw distinction on record)
Bearcreek Labradoodles
Missi Wilde operates Bearcreek Labradoodles from Woodinville, on Seattle’s eastside, and holds an ALAA Silver Paw.
Location: Woodinville, Washington
Website: Bearcreek Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
South Sound Labradoodles
Tiffany Jasper runs South Sound Labradoodles out of Tumwater, right next to the state capital in Olympia, and holds an ALAA Silver Paw.
Location: Tumwater, Washington
Website: South Sound Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Snooze and Sniff Labradoodles
Alina Varga operates Snooze and Sniff Labradoodles from Port Orchard, on the Kitsap Peninsula across the water from Seattle, and holds an ALAA Golden Paw.
Location: Port Orchard, Washington
Website: Snooze and Sniff Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw)
Laladoodles
Aimee Santa Monica runs Laladoodles from Seattle itself and holds ALAA’s Platinum Paw, the association’s highest health-testing distinction.
Location: Seattle, Washington
Website: Laladoodles
Registry: ALAA (Platinum Paw)
Washington’s ALAA Paw Distinctions
Washington’s roster leans toward the middle and upper health-testing tiers. Aspen Grove Labradoodles and Laladoodles hold the top Platinum Paw. Eight more, Blue Star, Moonlit Acres, Victoria Creek, Discovery Tails, Foothills, Ever After, Little Creek, and Snooze and Sniff, hold the mid-tier Golden Paw.
Six others, Hills West, Brickhaven, Barberry Brook, West Valley, Bearcreek, and South Sound, hold the entry-level Silver Paw. Only Kerry’s Labradoodles of Seattle and Highland Tails Australian Labradoodles currently show no Paw distinction, which typically reflects newer ALAA membership rather than any red flag.
Washington’s Intact Dog Ownership Cap
Washington’s RCW 16.52.310 sets a hard statewide ceiling: no one may own, possess, or have custody of more than fifty dogs with intact sexual organs over six months old at any one time, regardless of sex.
Anyone keeping more than ten intact dogs in enclosures also has to meet baseline welfare conditions under the same statute.
Those include enough space for each dog to turn around and lie down fully extended, at least one hour of exercise a day, and sanitary, properly ventilated housing.
Also required: dry shelter from extreme weather, constant access to clean food and water, prompt veterinary care, and a rule against breeding dogs younger than twelve months or older than eight years.
Violating either the fifty-dog cap or the care requirements is a gross misdemeanor, Washington’s most serious non-felony offense.
The law exempts animal control facilities, nonprofit humane societies, veterinary clinics, USDA-licensed retail pet stores, research institutions, and boarding or grooming operations, since those aren’t breeding programs in the first place.
Every ALAA-registered Washington breeder listed above operates on a small enough scale that the fifty-dog cap isn’t a practical constraint, but it does set a legal backstop against the kind of large-scale commercial operations ALAA membership is meant to stand apart from.
Tick-Borne Anaplasmosis Risk in Washington
Washington’s tick population splits along the same east-west line as its ALAA breeders.
The western black-legged tick favors the forested, brushy terrain west of the Cascades, the same region home to eleven of the state’s breeders.
American dog ticks and Rocky Mountain wood ticks are more common in the drier country east of the mountains, where Spokane’s cluster of programs is based.
The Washington State Department of Health has confirmed anaplasmosis, a tick-borne bacterial illness, in numerous dogs statewide, alongside human cases tied to in-state tick exposure.
Lyme disease has also been identified in Washington residents without travel history, though it remains far less common here than in the northeastern United States.
Puppy buyers anywhere in Washington should ask their vet about a tick-borne disease screening panel and a monthly preventive, particularly if the puppy will spend time in brushy or wooded areas on either side of the Cascades.
How the Australian Labradoodle Began
The Australian Labradoodle’s story begins not in Washington or even Australia, but in Hawaii, where a woman needed a guide dog but couldn’t have one because her husband’s severe allergies ruled out every breed her local guide dog school could normally place.
Wally Conron, working for the Royal Guide Dogs Association of Victoria in Australia, crossed a Labrador Retriever with a Standard Poodle in the late 1980s to try to solve that exact problem.
The resulting puppies had the right guide-dog temperament, but their coats still shed more than hoped, so later breeders folded in Cocker Spaniel, Irish Water Spaniel, and Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier to fix that.
Australian kennels Tegan Park and Rutland Manor spent the early 1990s stabilizing that combination into today’s Australian Labradoodle, and those same foundation bloodlines still show up in the pedigrees of every breeder featured in this article.
Frequently Asked Questions
Eighteen programs currently hold active ALAA membership in Washington: seven east of the Cascades, mostly around Spokane, and eleven to the west, spread from the Olympic Peninsula down through Seattle and Tacoma to Olympia.
Aspen Grove Labradoodles in Spokane and Laladoodles in Seattle both currently hold ALAA’s Platinum Paw, the association’s top tier.
Washington caps intact dog ownership at fifty dogs statewide under RCW 16.52.310, and anyone keeping more than ten intact dogs must meet specific space, exercise, and care standards, with violations treated as a gross misdemeanor.
Yes. The Washington State Department of Health has confirmed anaplasmosis, a tick-borne illness, in numerous dogs statewide, and Lyme disease has occasionally been found in state residents without travel history, so a vet-recommended tick preventive is worth discussing.
Confirm the breeder’s current ALAA membership and Paw status directly through ALAA’s own website, ask about health testing and guarantee terms in writing, and, if the program appears to be operating at any real scale, ask whether it stays under Washington’s fifty-dog statewide limit.
Yes. Seven programs are based east of the Cascades, mostly clustered around Spokane, while the other eleven are spread through western Washington’s Puget Sound region, so families on either side of the state have several ALAA options within a reasonable drive.
Conclusion
Washington’s eighteen ALAA-registered breeders make it one of the better-served states for Australian Labradoodle buyers, with sixteen of the eighteen holding some level of ALAA Paw distinction and two, Aspen Grove and Laladoodles, at the top Platinum tier.
Washington’s fifty-dog statewide cap on intact dogs gives buyers a legal backstop against large-scale commercial breeding, though every ALAA program listed here operates on a small enough scale that the limit isn’t a practical concern.
The state’s documented anaplasmosis risk is worth a conversation with a vet regardless of which side of the Cascades a new puppy will call home.
Australian Labradoodle Breeders In Other Places
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