A Bernese Mountain Dog sitting in a sunlit yard — the breed behind every Bernedoodle

Don't Pick Your Bernedoodle From a Picture.

Cute gets your attention. Fit determines what the next 10–15 years feel like.

You're about to make a fifteen-year decision off a photo on a screen, and we'd love to save you from that. Give us six minutes on the Bernedoodle Family Fit Blueprint™ and you'll know which of our puppies belongs in your house, what your first week home looks like hour by hour, and what to do at 2am when the crying starts. Free, no deposit, and nobody phones you unless you ask.

Why Fit Matters

Two puppies out of the same litter, born the same night, can need completely different families. Nobody tells you that part.

A photo tells you almost nothing

Coat colour is the first thing you notice and the last thing that'll matter. What you actually live with is energy, and whether the dog can stand being alone while you're at work.

Littermates are not interchangeable

One of Walter's pups will follow you into the bathroom for the rest of her life. Her sister is happy on the floor by herself for an hour. Same parents. Same night. Pick wrong and you'll feel it every single day.

The hard part starts after pickup

Week one is where families quietly panic. Almost all of it is avoidable, and we'll walk you through it before you commit — not after your money clears.

Meet Our Available Puppies

Walter's LitterReady Now

Bear, photographed here at the house
MaleAvailable

Bear

Solid black with a small white chest patch

Energy
4/5
People Focus
4/5
Confidence
5/5
Independence
3/5
Settle
3/5
Clover, photographed here at the house
FemaleAvailable

Clover

Black with white markings

Energy
2/5
People Focus
5/5
Confidence
3/5
Independence
2/5
Settle
5/5
Maple, photographed here at the house
FemaleAvailable

Maple

Black with a white chest and chin

Energy
3/5
People Focus
5/5
Confidence
4/5
Independence
2/5
Settle
4/5

August 2026 LitterJust Born

Puppy A, photographed here at the house
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TBD

Puppy A

Black, some with white chest markings

Puppy B, photographed here at the house
Coming Soon
TBD

Puppy B

Black, some with white chest markings

Puppy C, photographed here at the house
Coming Soon
TBD

Puppy C

Black, some with white chest markings

Puppy D, photographed here at the house
Coming Soon
TBD

Puppy D

Black, some with white chest markings

Four of the eight shown. The rest are on the puppies page, though at this age they honestly all look like the same black puppy.

The Bernedoodle Family Fit Blueprint™

Everything we wish someone had handed us before our first dog, in one place. It's free, it's yours whether you buy from us or not, and you can go through the whole thing tonight in your pyjamas without talking to a single person.

Bernedoodle Fit Finder

Ten honest questions about your kids, your hours and how loud the house gets at five o'clock. Then we tell you the temperament to look for.

Your Top Puppy Matches

Three black puppies look identical in a photo. We rank ours against your answers, show you the video, and say which one we'd send home with you.

Puppy Proof Packs™

Health testing, weights, vet records and our own notes since week three — including the annoying bits. Forward the whole thing to your vet.

Personalized Homecoming Plan™

Your actual week, hour by hour. Where he sleeps night one, who gets up at 2am, and how he's meant to settle while you're on calls.

First 30 Days Academy™

Six short videos covering everything you'd otherwise be googling at 3am with one thumb. All six are open to you before you ever pay us a dollar.

Meet the Parents

Walter and Rosie sleep on our couch and shed on our furniture. Whatever your puppy turns into, it starts with these two — so look them over properly.

Rosie resting against a wall with one of her puppies tucked in beside her
Rosie, our Bernese Mountain Dog, photographed at home
Mom

Rosie

Bernese Mountain Dog

She follows whoever is in the house from room to room and leans on them once she gets there. Good with children, slow to react, quick to forgive. She is not a jogging partner and never has been.

Walter, our Standard Poodle, photographed at home
Dad

Walter

Standard Poodle

Steady. He will play hard for twenty minutes and then go lie down without being told. He is fine with kids, fine with the cats, and does not startle at the vacuum. He does not much like being fussed over by strangers, and we do not make him.

Our Approach

We test first, breed second

Hips, elbows, eyes, heart and a full genetic panel on both parents. A bad result ends it, and it has before.

Every puppy gets scored

Five traits, one puppy at a time, at seven weeks. You see the scores. So do we.

Money does not buy pick

Deposit order doesn't decide anything here. The puppy that fits your house is the one that goes to your house.

We don't disappear

Call us in year six about something stupid. We'll pick up. People do.

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Families Matched

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Puppies Placed

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Health Tests Completed

What Families Say

I had my heart set on the black and white one. The Blueprint said Maple. I argued about it, honestly. Two years in, they were right and I was wrong.

The Johnson Family

Calgary, AB

Neither of us had ever owned a dog. Week one still wrecked us, but we knew it was coming and we knew it ends. That made all the difference.

Sarah and Mike

Red Deer, AB

We'd been burned by a breeder before, so we were asking hard questions. They sent the full health results before we even got to that one. We stopped looking after that.

The Patel Family

Edmonton, AB

Still deciding?

Take six minutes. Find out which puppy is yours before anyone brings up a deposit — or find out this isn't your year, which is a perfectly good answer too. The Blueprint is free either way.

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