Bentonville, Arkansas

Two mothers. Three women. Thirteen puppies.

A small family program in Bentonville, Arkansas — run around the kitchen table, raised on the living room floor.

The Breeders

Three women. One kitchen table.

Grace is teaching both girls every corner of this business — whelping, weight charts, customer calls, bookkeeping. And the house rule is non-negotiable: the girls invest their own profits and learn real financial planning, starting with their college funds.

Grace

Founder & Breeder

Ginger's person — the OG. AI consultant by trade, dog person by nature. Moved the whole crew from Austin, Texas to Bentonville, and runs the teaching side of the table.

Damaris

Breeder in Training

She listens to all genres of music around the clock and loves reading. Keeper of the weight charts, builder of a college fund.

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Gabrielle

Breeder in Training

Lacey's person — she kept her room clean for four straight months to earn her, and hasn't looked back. Violinist, guitarist, baker, and the first to jump in when there's work to do. Named all seven of the Rainbow Litter. College fund: growing.

Ranger

Puppy Patrol

Checks on the puppies every few minutes. Every few minutes.

Why Mini Goldendoodles

It started with a hard season.

Before Bentonville Doodles was a business, it was research at 2 a.m. Grace was in a low stretch of her own mental-health journey, reading everything she could find about emotional support animals — and two breeds kept rising to the top of every list: golden retrievers, for their gentle, intuitive hearts, and poodles, for their intelligence and low-shedding coats. A mini goldendoodle is both, in one small dog.

That research became Ginger. Ginger became family. And the comfort was real enough — the hard nights she sat through, the mornings she made easier — that we wanted to raise it for other families, on purpose.

Gentle to a fault
Ours roll straight over for belly rubs the moment they meet a new dog or a new person. Worst guard dogs in America. Best hearts we've ever known.
Allergy-friendly, honestly stated
No dog is 100% hypoallergenic, but Grace is severely pet-sensitive, and these are the only dogs she can share a pillow with, itch-free.
Raised for real family life
Three kids, a loud house, small hands in the food bowl mid-meal. Our dogs grow up with all of it, so gentle habits start before go-home day.
Emotionally tuned in
They know who in the house needs love before anyone else does. On the hard nights, they show up first. For mental health: ten out of ten — signed, someone who needed it.

After Grace reviews your application and before any deposit, we set up a FaceTime so you can meet your puppy and their mother.

A pile of newborn apricot puppies asleep on a blanket

How They're Raised

Why we do this.

Bentonville Doodles is a mom and two teenage daughters — three breeders around one kitchen table. Damaris and Gabrielle do real work here: feeding schedules, weight charts, customer calls, 2 a.m. puppy checks. They're learning every corner of a business run right — and they invest their own profits and practice real financial planning, starting with their college funds.

So when a puppy leaves our house, your money does two honest jobs: first-rate care for our dogs, and two girls' futures. Thank you for backing the next generation of female entrepreneurs.

Our puppies are born and raised inside our home — never a kennel, weighed every day. We don't handle newborns until their eyes open — mom does that work. From then on they're held every day, and any pushiness toward a littermate is corrected on the spot, so they learn early to be gentle with other dogs. They're already using the pee pad and the grass patch, and are nearly weaned. Surrounded by teenagers, music, vacuum cleaners, and doorbells, so by the time they leave, family life is simply what the world sounds like.

The home

We don't handle newborns until their eyes open — mom does that work.
From then on they're held every day, and any pushiness toward a littermate is corrected on the spot, so they learn early to be gentle with other dogs.
They're already using the pee pad and the grass patch, and are nearly weaned.
Every puppy goes home with a vet exam, first shots, deworming, microchip, and full records.

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The NWA family

Puppies who stay close stay in the family.

Puppies who stay in Northwest Arkansas are invited to Bentonville Doodles birthday parties and get-togethers. Follow Bentonville Doodles on Facebook.

Puppy updates, most days:

Families who bring a puppy home are invited to our private Facebook group. Private group for puppy families

The Parents

Family line.

Ginger × Oliver → Lacey. This summer: Ginger × Donald, 6 pups; Lacey × Donald, 7 pups. Donald is a white Mini Poodle bred by Perdue Puppies in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, where he lives.

Bred by Perdue Puppies, Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Bred by Perdue Puppies, Kingfisher, Oklahoma

We don't publish a generation we can't document; the parents' Embark DNA results show the actual breed mix, and we share them with every approved applicant. Testing is done on the parents, never on the puppies.

Embark DNA and genetic health testing is done on the parent dogs only. Individual puppies are not DNA tested; every approved family receives copies of the parents' results. Donald's Embark results are on file (Bred by Perdue Puppies, Kingfisher, Oklahoma). Ginger's and Lacey's embark DNA testing arriving this week; we share results with every approved applicant.