The Bernedoodle Family Fit Blueprint™
Fourteen questions, about eight minutes, and it costs you nothing. By the end you'll know the kind of Bernedoodle that suits the house you actually live in, which of our puppies come closest, and what your first week home would really look like. And if the honest answer turns out to be “not this year,” we'd much rather you found that out here than in month three.
Here's everything that lands in your inbox
Five pieces, all free, and yours whether you ever buy a puppy from us or not. Here's what each one is and the exact problem it's there to fix.
Piece one
The 3-Minute Bernedoodle Fit Finder
If this sounds like you: you've been scrolling puppy photos for three weeks and you still can't tell which one you're supposed to want.
Every listing you've read says friendly, healthy, great with kids. That sentence describes almost every puppy ever born, so it leaves you exactly where you started — picking by face. We ask about your kids and their ages, your other animals, your work hours, how loud the house gets at five o'clock, how much dog you've raised before, and the thing that quietly worries you at eleven at night. Fourteen questions. You'll be done before your coffee cools.
What comes back
Your family fit
- Moderate energy, strongly people-focused
- Good natural off-switch
- Confident in a busy, noisy household
- Medium size, 45–60 lb range
- Well suited to a first-time puppy family
Why it matters: you stop shopping for a puppy and start shopping for a temperament. That's the difference between falling for a face and being able to say no to a very cute dog without second-guessing yourself for a week.
Piece two
Your current puppy matches
If this sounds like you: there are three black puppies in the photo and you genuinely cannot tell them apart.
At seven weeks we sit down and score every puppy on five things — energy, people focus, confidence, independence and natural settle. Then we line those scores up against your answers and rank them. You get the ranking, the reasoning, and video of each one playing, being handled, and doing nothing at all. That last clip is the one most families end up rewatching.
What comes back
#1 Charlie — 92% family fit
You told us you want a puppy who'll wrestle the kids after school and still go quiet under the desk while you take calls. Charlie is a 5 on people focus, a 3 on energy, and he's the quickest in this litter to flop over and switch off once the playing stops.
#2 Millie — 84% family fit
Just as people-focused, a notch braver and busier. Wonderful if your weekends look like Kananaskis. Harder if your Tuesdays are back-to-back meetings.
Why it matters: the percentage isn't a magic number, it's arithmetic on scores we wrote down before we ever met you. And when a puppy would be a poor fit for your house, we tell you that too — even when it's the one you already had your heart set on.
Piece three
The Puppy Proof Pack™
If this sounds like you: you're about to e-transfer three thousand dollars to somebody you found on the internet.
That hesitation is healthy. Ask most breeders about health testing and you get a reassuring sentence rather than a document. So every one of our puppies has a pack you can open and forward straight to somebody who knows more about dogs than you do.
What's inside
- Both parents, and the health testing we have on paper
- Birth date, today's weight, a realistic adult size range
- Coat type and the grooming it will genuinely need
- Vet visits and vaccinations so far
- Our own written notes since week three, including the annoying bits
- Photos and video from the same session, not just the flattering frames
- What goes home in the bag on pickup day
- The health guarantee, in writing, before you pay anything
Why it matters: you never have to take our word for it. Hand this to your vet, your partner, or the friend who thinks every breeder is a scam, and let them try to poke holes in it. That's the point of it.
Piece four
Your Personalized Puppy Homecoming Plan™
If this sounds like you: you can picture the puppy just fine. It's the Tuesday you can't picture.
Almost nobody stalls because they doubt the dog. They stall because nobody has answered who's getting up at two in the morning, what happens between nine and noon while one of you is on calls, and whether the eight-year-old is allowed to carry him around. So tell us the shape of your day — kids up at seven, one of you working from home, the other through the door at five, lights out at ten, first puppy — and we'll hand you back a real week.
What comes back
Your first week with Charlie
- 7:00 — Kids are up, Charlie goes straight outside. Nobody says good morning first.
- 7:15 — Breakfast, then out again eight minutes later
- 7:30 — Ten minutes of play, then into the crate with something to chew
- 8:00 — He settles while your first call starts. This is the part that makes or breaks the week.
- 12:30 — Out, one short training game, back down
- 3:30 — Kids home. Supervised puppy time, with the three rules the kids get taught.
- 5:00 — Dad walks in, the evening zoomies arrive on schedule, then dinner
- 9:30 — Last trip outside, lights down, crate beside your bed for the first three nights
Why it matters: this is the piece families tell us flipped the switch. You stop debating whether you should get a dog and start reading your own Thursday. It also comes with a plain division of jobs, which has settled more household arguments than we expected it to.
Piece five
The Bernedoodle First 30 Days Academy™
If this sounds like you: it's two in the morning in week one, the crying hasn't stopped, and you're googling with one thumb in the dark.
Everybody hits that night. The families who come through it well are simply the ones who knew it was coming and had already decided what to do. Six short videos, five to eight minutes each, filmed by people who have done this with these exact dogs.
The six modules
- Before puppy day — what to buy, and the four things everyone wastes money on
- The first 72 hours — what's normal, what isn't, and when to call us
- Sleep and the crate — getting through the first three nights without giving in
- The potty routine — one schedule, simple enough to stick on the fridge
- Biting, chewing and kids — the phase that convinces new owners they got the wrong puppy
- Bernedoodle basics — brushing, groomer appointments, and how much exercise is actually enough
Why it matters: nothing is drip-fed and nothing is held back for buyers. All six are open to you the moment you finish the Fit Finder, so you can watch them and decide this isn't your year. We'd honestly rather that than a puppy coming back in six weeks.
None of this asks anything of you. No deposit, no waitlist, no obligation to us at all — and nobody phones you unless you ask them to.