About our place

Visit www.servicedog.academy presenting 20+ Golden retriever / assistance dog prospects or family companions currently available in both USA (Hawthorne, Florida) and Canada (Estérel, Quebec). Our training program is based an a affectionate approach with close contact with puppies since the evry first moment of their life. We use operant conditioning training and a hybrid approach using both positive and negative reinforcement for better long term learning results, in total respect of the cognitive and affective development steps of our dogs. Golden Retriever Service Dog Academy takes place on 2 animal parks : our purebred golden retrievers can be met in Florida at Horse Kingdom, our beautiful horse park of 117 acres of majestic live oaks forests and pastures located near Gainesville Fl (You can visit also : www.kingdom.horse about our place, and the portraits of all our wonderful dogs are listed with many additional details on : www.servicedog.academy too). Our second animal park (Cavaland Park) is located in Estérel, Quebec, Canada (one hour north of Montreal), that has been the cradle of our breeding since 1999 on a superb animal park in the Laurentian mountains - you can also visit www.cavaland.com). We invite you to discover all our exceptional dogs, adults or puppies, with a complete portraits, pictures, video, and tests results / health certificate on our websites : www.servicedog.academy and www.Goldenretriever.academy. We are breeders of exceptional gentle and devoted golden retriever since 26 years and we know our dogs by heart, managing their health, the best way to train them and let them to become beautiful well-educated adults, then seniors with good longevity. We test and select babies at their 7th week old to discover our promising next candidates to become service dog prospect (or wonderful E.S.A or unforgetable family companion dogs. Many of our puppies are working with patients at home, in hospital, in public transportation and so on in Canada since 1999 : our parents are selected for their sensibilty and devotion / connexion to human to love, help and assist humans for a lifetime. Our puppies even participate to movies and tc shows for their great beauty and kindness, easy temper, patience and calm and their famous English cream very researched coat. They are born in our hands and stay in our bedroom then home as long as possible for a wonderful socialisation then they are used to public and kids but also others farm animals on our equestrian center and ranch. Most of our puppies are also trained to become emotional super or service digs according to the health condition / needs of our customers and patients. They do help people and kids with autism ; anxiety trouble and PTSD; alzheimer and many handicaps or needs and their total devotion and love for their masters are a warranty of success in their training since more than 20 years! We are very proud of our puppies and want for them the best homes also : we ask for experience and a garden for their well-being too. They are vaccinated with checkvet and have a training / breeding certificate depending on their profil and résultat to the TPO test for the service dogs puppies we pre qualify. Contact us and come and see and walk our wonderful golden on our 117 ranch in Hawthorne Florida! We are 13 minutes from Gainesville and 35 minutes from Ocala. We invite you to come and see our puppies - you can book an appointment on our websit (www.servicedog.academy) to discover your companions available, with all informations you can need online available for you (contracts, videos, current description, pictures and health certificate of all our puppies!).Come and visit us also by taking an appointment to our park to meet our wonderful Golden retrievers!