Victoria has four confirmed Australian Labradoodle breeders in WALA’s directory, more than any other Australian state or territory Doodle Breed Expert has found. That makes sense given where this all started: Victoria is the state where the breed itself was created.
Victoria’s Four WALA-Registered Breeders
Cypress Labradoodles
Cypress Labradoodles operates from Oakleigh South, a residential suburb about 17 kilometers southeast of central Melbourne with a strong Greek and Italian heritage dating back to postwar immigration.
The program breeds Medium and Standard Labradoodles in the 15 to 22 kilogram range from DNA, hip, and elbow-tested parents, backing every puppy with a three-year health guarantee and six months of Knose pet insurance.
Beyond its WALA membership, Cypress also carries registration with the Responsible Pet Breeders Association and holds a Victorian Animal Welfare domestic animal business number, RB257400, the state’s own mandatory registration for anyone breeding dogs commercially.
Location: Oakleigh South, Victoria
Website: Cypress Labradoodles
Registry: WALA (WALA-0326-12755)
Gingerbred Labradoodles
Gingerbred Labradoodles is run by Fiona Sanderson out of Torquay, the Surf Coast town that serves as the gateway to the Great Ocean Road roughly 97 kilometers southwest of Melbourne.
WALA’s directory lists the program with Medium and Standard sizes currently available, and the breeder maintains a Facebook presence rather than a dedicated website at this time.
Location: Torquay, Victoria
Contact: GingerBred Labradoodles on Facebook
Registry: WALA (WALA-0226-12730)
Mountain Ash Labradoodles
Mountain Ash Labradoodles breeds out of Upwey, a town tucked into the Dandenong Ranges foothills about 33 kilometers east of Melbourne, run under owner Kerri Cassidy.
The program currently focuses on Miniature Labradoodles only, in the 7.5 to 10 kilogram range, with DNA testing, PennHIP scoring, and hip and elbow assessments on every breeding dog.
Mountain Ash carries a Victorian Pet Exchange Register number, MB188251, on top of its WALA listing, and it offers a guardian program alongside its standard puppy placements.
Location: Upwey, Victoria
Website: Mountain Ash Labradoodles
Registry: WALA (WALA-0526-12805)
Silverleaves Labradoodles
Silverleaves Labradoodles is run by Lyndsey and Chloe, breeding Medium Labradoodles in the 14 to 18 kilogram range using Puppy Culture and Badass Breeder early-development programs plus a partnership-run Good Puppy Blueprint training course.
WALA’s own directory lists the program under Pascoe Vale, an inner-north Melbourne suburb, but the breeder’s current website places the operation in Pakenham, southeast of the city, while still noting it serves families within about an hour of Gisborne and Pascoe Vale South.
That’s worth flagging plainly: the two sources don’t fully agree on the program’s home base, which happens periodically as small breeding operations relocate between litters.
Doodle Breed Expert is listing the breeder’s own current site as the more up-to-date source, and prospective buyers should confirm the program’s present location directly before making contact.
Location: Pakenham, Victoria (per breeder’s website; WALA lists Pascoe Vale)
Website: Silverleaves Labradoodles
Registry: WALA (WALA-0323-11540)
Why ALAA Has No Victoria Breeders
Every article in this Australia-focused cluster has pointed out that ALAA’s breeder directory shows zero members based in Australia, but that gap stings a little more here.
Victoria isn’t just another state on the map; it’s the state where the Australian Labradoodle was actually created, which makes ALAA’s total absence from its home country’s most historically significant state a genuinely notable gap in an otherwise US-and-Canada-focused registry.
WALA fills that gap, as it does throughout this site’s Australia coverage. Founded by breeders in the United States and Canada, WALA has grown into a registry with members across roughly 30 countries, including a meaningful concentration right here in the breed’s founding state.
Victoria’s Pet Exchange Register Rule
Since July 1, 2020, Victoria has required anyone advertising a dog or cat for sale, or giving one away, to include both the animal’s microchip number and a source number generated through the state’s Pet Exchange Register.
It’s an offence under the Domestic Animals Act to publish, or to run, an advertisement missing either identifier, and that obligation falls on both the seller and whoever publishes the ad.
How a breeder registers depends on scale. A domestic animal business registers through its local council, a recreational breeder keeping ten or fewer breeding-age animals self-enrols directly, and a microbreeder with as few as two fertile females also has to self-enrol.
Cypress Labradoodles and Mountain Ash Labradoodles both display their Victorian registration numbers publicly, which is exactly the kind of verification buyers should look for from any compliant Victorian breeder.
Melbourne’s Four Breeder Locations
Oakleigh South sits about 17 kilometers southeast of the Melbourne CBD, a settled residential suburb shaped by the postwar wave of Greek and Italian immigration; more than 14 percent of local households still speak Greek at home today.
Upwey, by contrast, climbs into the Dandenong Ranges foothills at roughly 220 meters elevation, 33 kilometers east of the city, a heavily forested area with a long history of serious bushfires stretching from 1938 through 2009.
Torquay sits furthest out at 97 kilometers southwest of Melbourne, a genuine coastal town on Bass Strait where the population can triple during the January and February school holidays.
Pakenham, Silverleaves’ current home base, is one of the fastest-growing corners of southeastern Melbourne. Its population more than doubled from 19,644 in 2006 to 54,118 by the 2021 census.
New housing estates like Lakeside and Cardinia Lakes have filled in around the original railway town.
Melbourne’s Changeable Climate
Melbourne’s own weather has a well-earned local reputation, with a temperate oceanic climate that averages around 27°C in January and drops to a 7.5°C average low in July, spread across roughly 601 millimeters of rain and 139 rainy days a year.
The “four seasons in one day” phrase locals use isn’t just a slogan; isolated convective showers can sweep through with hail, squalls, and a sharp temperature drop, then clear again within minutes, sometimes repeating several times in a single afternoon.
That variability plays out differently depending on which of Victoria’s four breeder locations a puppy comes from.
Upwey’s elevated, forested setting runs noticeably cooler and damper than Oakleigh South’s inner-suburban position, while Torquay’s coastal exposure and Pakenham’s more open outer-suburban landscape each bring their own wind and rainfall patterns into a new owner’s coat care routine.
Where the Australian Labradoodle Began
Every Australian Labradoodle bred anywhere in the world today, across every state covered on this site, traces back to a single dog bred right here in Victoria in the late 1980s.
Wally Conron worked at the Royal Guide Dogs Association of Victoria when a blind woman in Hawaii needed a guide dog her husband’s severe allergies wouldn’t rule out.
His solution was crossing a Labrador Retriever with a Standard Poodle and naming the resulting puppy Sultan.
Sultan worked successfully as a guide dog for ten years, and Conron leaned into a catchy crossbreed name specifically to help the concept overcome the stigma that typically surrounded mixed-breed dogs at the time, which is how “Labradoodle” entered everyday use.
Later litters still shed inconsistently, so Victorian kennels, most notably Tegan Park and Rutland Manor, spent the early 1990s folding in Cocker Spaniel, Irish Water Spaniel, and Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier bloodlines.
That work refined the cross into the multi-generational Australian Labradoodle recognized today, right here in the state where it all began.
Conron has since spoken publicly about regretting how the breed’s popularity outpaced the number of careful, health-tested breeders able to keep up with demand, which is exactly why a verifiable WALA listing, like the four Victorian programs covered here, matters as much as it does.
Frequently Asked Questions
Four confirmed listings in WALA’s directory: Cypress Labradoodles in Oakleigh South, Gingerbred Labradoodles in Torquay, Mountain Ash Labradoodles in Upwey, and Silverleaves Labradoodles, whose current base is listed as Pakenham on the breeder’s own site.
Because Wally Conron worked at the Royal Guide Dogs Association of Victoria when he created the first Labrador-Poodle cross in the late 1980s to solve a specific guide-dog allergy problem, and Victorian kennels later refined that cross into today’s breed.
Yes. Victoria requires a Pet Exchange Register source number on every advertisement since July 1, 2020, on top of any private registry membership like WALA.
It varies by program. Cypress and Silverleaves currently breed Medium and Standard sizes, Mountain Ash focuses on Miniature only, and Gingerbred’s WALA listing shows Medium and Standard.
WALA’s directory lists Pascoe Vale, an inner Melbourne suburb, while the breeder’s own website currently states Pakenham, southeast of the city. Small breeding operations sometimes relocate between litters, so buyers should confirm the program’s current location directly.
Temperate oceanic, averaging around 27°C in January and 7.5°C lows in July, with roughly 601 millimeters of rain a year and famously changeable weather locals call “four seasons in one day.”
Yes. Cypress Labradoodles lists a Victorian Animal Welfare domestic animal business number, and Mountain Ash Labradoodles lists a Pet Exchange Register number, both separate from their WALA membership IDs.
Conclusion
Victoria has the largest confirmed WALA breeder roster in this Australia cluster: Cypress, Gingerbred, Mountain Ash, and Silverleaves Labradoodles, spread from Melbourne’s suburbs to the Surf Coast.
ALAA shows nothing here despite Victoria being the breed’s birthplace, so WALA membership is what buyers should verify directly.
Check for a valid Pet Exchange Register source number on any advertisement, and confirm Silverleaves’ current location given the discrepancy between its WALA listing and its own website.
Melbourne’s genuinely unpredictable weather is worth planning around too. Readers can find Doodle Breed Expert’s guides to New South Wales, Queensland, Sydney, and the Australia roundup elsewhere on this site.
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