Southern California has nine ALAA-registered breeders for the Australian Labradoodle. The breeders are scattered throughout five different counties, including the San Gabriel Mountain base and along the coastline of Ventura. Over half of the breeders listed are located in the Inland Empire, which ultimately dictates where most people purchasing a puppy in Southern California will be getting their puppy.
Southern California’s ALAA Roster Runs From the Coast to the Foothills
Each county of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino has at least one active member of ALAA. However, the number of programs varies greatly. Los Angeles and Orange County combined have three separate programs, Ventura County has just one program on the coast, and Riverside and San Bernardino together have five.
Faithful Doodles
Faithful Doodles is run out of Santa Clarita by Julie Long. Families can choose from an F1, F1B, or multi-generation Australian Labradoodle based on how severe their allergies are. Generally speaking, Julie recommends F1B puppies for moderate allergy sufferers and recommends the multi-generation litters for those with more severe allergic reactions.
Recent litters include Charlie, a multi-gen puppy with a fleece coat, and Molly, whose wool coat carries the rarer lavender color. These two represent the types of dogs that Faithful Doodles breeds for within the Los Angeles market.
Location: Santa Clarita, California
Email: faithfuldoodles@hotmail.com
Website: Faithful Doodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
California Dulce Doodles LLC
Rocio Margarita Bravo, also known as Margie, began California Dulce Doodles in the Sparr Heights neighborhood of Glendale after her own dog Ruby joined the family. “We knew after a year that we were going to breed her and help other families enjoy these wonderful dogs,” is how California Dulce Doodles described the decision to become a breeder.
California Dulce Doodles now consists of four multi-generation Australian Labradoodles that are all OFA certified and registered through WALA in addition to ALAA. Rocio Margarita Bravo operates a guardian home program in addition to stud services for qualified females.
Location: Glendale, California
Website: California Dulce Doodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw), WALA
Shady Creek Labradoodles
Nicole Reed, who signs her own site as Nikki, founded Shady Creek in Orange County in 2018. As a child, Nikki managed her own dog allergies and was looking for a dog she could truly live comfortably with. She found it in the Australian Labradoodle’s combination of a low-shed coat with genuine intelligence and devotion.
Shady Creek tests every one of its breeding dogs. The dogs get certified by OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) for hips, elbows, and patellas. They also complete eye exams, DNA profiling, and progressive retinal atrophy testing, and the dogs all live with Reed in her own house as family pets rather than in kennel runs.
Location: Yorba Linda, California
Email: shadycreeklabradoodles@gmail.com
Website: Shady Creek Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Sweet Time Labradoodles
Sweet Time Labradoodles produces multi-generation miniature and small-to-medium Australian Labradoodles from Ventura, the only recognized ALAA program on Southern California’s coastline outside the Los Angeles area. Dam Sedona is part of the current breeding program.
Puppies receive Puppy Culture enrichment and Early Neurological Stimulation beginning at birth. Sweet Time Labradoodles puppies are sold exclusively as spayed or neutered family pets and leave with a two-year health guarantee in addition to a clean veterinary bill of health.
Location: Ventura, California
Phone Number: 805-901-1714
Email: info@sweettimelabradoodles.com
Website: Sweet Time Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
More Than Half of Southern California’s Breeders Sit in the Inland Empire
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties together hold five of the region’s nine ALAA programs, more than the coastal and metro counties combined. This can be attributed to land availability and cost, since there’s an abundance of affordable land for a home-based breeding program inland compared to land closer to the coast.
Poco Creek Labradoodles
Keith and Reiko Herron trace the origins of Poco Creek to picking up their first Australian Labradoodle, Chimaki, at LAX and quickly forming an unbreakable bond with her. Shortly after, their second early dog, Shu-Shu, arrived. That experience became the catalyst for a program the Herrons describe as breeding authentic Australian, multi-generational Labradoodles out of Riverside.
In addition to shipping puppies to several western states, Poco Creek also serves buyers from Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Diego directly from its Riverside location.
Location: Riverside, California
Website: Poco Creek Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
L & D’s Desert Doodles
Lisa Wilhide discovered the breed through Sadie Girl, a dog she says was so smart, loving, and loyal that it completely changed what she expected from a family dog. Wilhide now breeds as L & D’s Desert Doodles out of Calimesa, in the high-desert pass country between the Inland Empire and the Coachella Valley.
Puppies are born and raised in Wilhide’s bedroom under close supervision until they join new families. L & D’s Desert Doodles charges $3,000 per puppy with a required $500 deposit, and studs are chosen specifically to reinforce health, temperament, and appearance in each litter.
Location: Calimesa, California
Phone Number: 760-880-6366
Email: ld.desertdoodles@gmail.com
Website: L & D’s Desert Doodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Kings Labradoodles
Kings Labradoodles, based in Upland, California, specializes in raising miniature and standard sized Australian Labradoodles weighing between 20 and 50 pounds, following a family-raised, health-tested, trained philosophy. The same ALAA membership also covers a second location in Las Vegas, Nevada, making Kings one of just a handful of programs in this series operating across two states at once.
Recent litters, including one nicknamed Elsa’s Paw Patrol, have sold out well ahead of the next planned breeding, expected in early 2027.
Location: Upland, California
Email: Kingslabradoodles@yahoo.com
Website: Kings Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Lily’s Labradoodles
Michelle Goodlander, a retired adoption social worker with 35 years spent placing children with families, applied that same careful matching process to Lily’s Labradoodles in Rancho Cucamonga after losing her 17-year-old Labrador mix rescue, Toby. She now breeds small and medium multi-generation Australian Labradoodles that are, in her words, handled with love from their very first days.
As the only Southern California program featured in this article to hold ALAA’s Platinum Paw, the association’s highest health-testing distinction, Lily’s Labradoodles backs that status with OFA Canine Health Information Center records and Paw Print Genetics screening on every breeding dog.
Location: Rancho Cucamonga, California
Phone Number: 909-261-2913
Email: Lilyslabradoodles@gmail.com
Website: Lily’s Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Platinum Paw)
Whimsical Australian Labradoodles
Judy Dorough and Gail Tighe operate Whimsical Australian Labradoodles from Yucaipa with a specific focus on service-dog placements for veterans alongside family companions, plus two guardian homes in Texas that extend the program beyond California. Both breeders say they were hooked from their very first Labradoodle, drawn to the breed’s loyalty, intelligence, and gentle temperament.
The program carries ALAA and WALA membership along with PennHip testing, and it earned an All Star Breeder distinction for 2024-25 plus WALA accreditation for 2026.
Location: Yucaipa, California
Phone Number: 909-638-6411
Email: judydorough@yahoo.com
Website: Whimsical Australian Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw), WALA
Lily’s Labradoodles Holds the Region’s Only Platinum Paw
Every ALAA member in this article already clears a real bar: submitted pedigrees and health testing, written purchase agreements and health warranties, registered litters, and adherence to the association’s code of ethics. Eight of Southern California’s nine programs currently hold ALAA’s Silver Paw on top of that baseline, and Lily’s Labradoodles in Rancho Cucamonga is the only one that has gone further, to Platinum.
Paw status isn’t permanent, which is the first thing to understand about it. ALAA reviews it on a rolling basis and updates its public directory roughly every 24 hours, so a breeder has to keep retesting every dog added to its program to hold onto a distinction rather than earning it once and moving on. Buyers should check a kennel’s current standing directly through ALAA’s own website rather than a badge posted on a breeder’s own page, since a couple of program websites referenced in this article describe paw levels that no longer match ALAA’s live records.
A New State Law Voids Any Contract That Skips Health Disclosures
As previously stated, California’s AB 506 went into effect on January 1, 2026, and it applies to every puppy sale discussed in this article. The law voids any pet sale contract that either omits full medical and origin disclosure or includes a nonrefundable deposit, and if a contract fails either test, the buyer can request a refund without having to return the puppy.
AB 506 has a companion law, SB 312, that targets a different problem: breeders or brokers who import dogs from out of state now have to provide health certificates to both the buyer and the California Department of Food and Agriculture within ten days of the dog entering California, and the CDFA has to keep those records public for five years. Because none of the breeders in this article import dogs from other states, SB 312 mainly matters to Southern California buyers as a reason to ask extra questions if a seller does mention bringing dogs in from another state.
While neither AB 506 nor SB 312 replaces the importance of reading a purchase contract closely before signing it, together they give Southern California buyers a legal backstop that did not exist before this year.
San Bernardino County Caps Home Kennels at Fifteen Dogs
Three of the nine breeders in this article, Kings Labradoodles, Lily’s Labradoodles, and Whimsical Australian Labradoodles, operate in San Bernardino County, where any private kennel requires a Special Use Permit regardless of how few dogs are involved. The county’s code limits a permitted private kennel to fifteen dogs and cats combined per parcel, requires a minimum 2.5-acre lot in specific zoning districts, and sets a 70-foot setback between animal areas and any neighboring home.
Permitted kennels also have to house animals indoors overnight in a solid, four-walled structure and pass annual inspections from San Bernardino County’s Public Health Department. Riverside County, home to two more of this article’s breeders, runs a similar zoning-based system rather than a single countywide kennel license.
This does not mean every small home breeder needs a Special Use Permit. The general trigger is the number and type of animals kept rather than the fact that a household breeds dogs occasionally, but it does mean Southern California buyers can reasonably ask an inland breeder whether their operation falls under their county’s permit rules and, if so, whether they hold one.
Triple-Digit Summers Make Heatstroke the Region’s Top Health Risk
The inland valleys of Southern California, including the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire cities where five of this article’s nine breeders are based, regularly see afternoon temperatures in the 90s and above for much of the summer. On an 85-degree day, pavement sitting in direct sun can climb past 130 degrees, and a car parked in the sun reaches dangerous internal temperatures within minutes even with the windows cracked.
Dog heatstroke is a genuine medical emergency that can cause organ damage or kill a dog within minutes of onset. Puppies, senior dogs, overweight dogs, flat-faced breeds, and thick-coated breeds like the Australian Labradoodle are all at increased risk. Warning signs include excessive, unrelenting panting, bright red gums, thick ropey drool, stumbling or weakness, and vomiting.
Early morning or evening walk times are recommended for new puppy owners picking up a dog from any of the Inland Empire breeders in this article during hot summer weather. Never leave a dog in a parked car, and know that a suspected heatstroke case needs immediate emergency veterinary care rather than home cooling alone.
Hawaii, Not Australia, Is Where This Breed Actually Began
Despite the name, the Australian Labradoodle’s origin story starts in Hawaii, with a woman who needed a guide dog but whose husband’s severe allergies ruled out the breeds her local guide dog school could normally offer.
Wally Conron, working for the Royal Guide Dogs Association of Australia, crossed a Labrador Retriever with a Standard Poodle in the late 1980s to solve exactly that problem. The resulting puppies had the temperament guide dog work required, 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 the modern Australian Labradoodle, and the same foundation bloodlines still turn up in the pedigrees of every breeder featured in this article.
Frequently Asked Questions
Nine programs across Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties currently hold active ALAA membership, with more than half of them concentrated in the Inland Empire.
Lily’s Labradoodles in Rancho Cucamonga is the only Southern California program currently holding ALAA’s Platinum Paw; the other eight breeders in this article hold the Silver Paw designation.
Yes. As of January 1, 2026, California’s AB 506 voids any pet sale contract that skips full health and origin disclosure or charges a nonrefundable deposit, entitling the buyer to a refund.
Yes. Inland areas like the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire regularly reach the 90s in summer, and heatstroke can cause organ damage or death within minutes, so shade, water, and avoiding midday walks are essential for a new dog.
Confirm the breeder’s current ALAA membership and paw status directly through ALAA’s own online directory, ask about the specific health testing behind your puppy’s parents, and get every disclosure required under AB 506 in writing before paying a deposit.
Conclusion
Southern California’s nine ALAA-registered Australian Labradoodle breeders cover five counties and a striking range of climates, from Ventura’s mild coastline to the triple-digit summers of the Inland Empire, where more than half of the region’s programs are based.
Between a new state law that voids undisclosed-health contracts, county kennel rules that shape how these programs can legally operate, and a climate that makes heatstroke a real risk for a new puppy, Southern California buyers have more to check than in many other states. Still, with nine verified, ALAA-registered programs to choose from, there is no shortage of legitimate options across the region.
Australian Labradoodle Breeders In Other Places
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