Big Rock Labradoodles - High River, Alberta

Stephen Powell

Alana and her husband are all in when it comes to their business. She guides you along the way and provides tons of useful information to make the transition and journey with your pet that much easier. She works with the puppies to get them ready for the transition to a new life, through her tested methodology. Our new joy, has no problems sleeping through the night thanks to Alana's training and is very well adjusted, he fit right into our home the moment he walked in. I've had 2 strangers ask if they can take a picture of our puppy, he is so handsome and friendly to family and strangers alike. Thank you for all that you do, Alana! I highly recommend reaching out and talking to Alana if you are interested in adding an Australian Labradoodle to your family, you will not be disappointed with the experience.

Irene Pearce

I just had to post another photo ?. This one is of our Big Rock pup Dragon. It took me a few weeks to get my husband to say yes to a 3rd puppy as he thought another one would be too many and his love for our puppy boys would be stretched too thin. He has since learned that both of us have an infinite amount of love for all of the Big Rock pups ?. Our Dragon is almost 18 months old already ?

UPDATE…now we have 3 Big Rock puppies?. We had an amazing experience with Big Rock Labradoodles and now have three amazing puppies that get along so well❤️. As first time dog owners we were so fortunate to find Big Rock Labradoodles! Our Cooper now 2 years old, Gryphon 1 1/2 years and most recently Dragon 10 months are a perfect fit for our family. (We tried to wait a year before getting our second puppy, but just couldn’t ?…it’s true…you can’t have just one..turns out we can’t have just 2 ?!). They were all crate trained and slept all night at 8 weeks of age. We thought we just got lucky with our first Big Rock puppy, but our second one was just as perfect and so is our third! All the work Alana and her staff put in to create these “super puppies” really works! Thank you so much Alana and staff for our beautiful puppies!

Kathleen Bohaychuk

We brought our beautiful Big Rock puppy home when she was 16 weeks old. She eased into our family so beautifully and was incredibly quick to train. Alana had shared that she felt Tula possessed therapy temperament and she wasn’t wrong. At twelve months of age, and after much specialized training and testing, she was certified to work as an Animal Assisted Wellness/Intervention dog. She attends work with me regularly at the school I work in and supports my clinical practice with students from K-12. Aside from being a natural in a therapeutic environment, Tula is an incredible family pet and we are blessed she found our family to join.

Jennifer Baczara

Our family was on vacation and came home with the most wonderful addition to our family, Zoe from Big Rock Labradoodles.

Alana was a huge help to us, as this was unplanned. We lost our beloved pet, another Australian Labradoodle, over the summer and planned on looking for another dog once we returned from vacation. We stumbled upon Big Rock and Alana had puppies available at the time and long story short, we got our puppy sooner than we expected.

We had only a few days to figure out all of the logistics and Alana was absolutely great with helping us with all we needed to make this happen.

We are head over heels in love with Zoe. She is the sweetest girl. She loves to cuddle and really, really loves playing with toys. We have a box of toys in our living room and every morning, the first thing she does is run to her box and removes her toys one by one and puts them around her bed. She is very calm for a puppy, loves to run around outside and is great when she meets other people and dogs.

We appreciate all of the information Alana gave to us regarding not only Zoe, but puppies in general. She gives you a huge packet of information regarding feeding, training, vet visits, toys etc.... that we found to be invaluable.

Our family would recommend Big Rock Labradoodles to anyone in search of a new family member.

Le Smith

Our recent experience with Big Rock Labradoodle has been with utmost ease and comfort. Louie has recently filled our home with an abundance of love and pure entertainment! Big Rock provides the essential knowledge, care and confidence for their puppies. Not only are they all adorable beyond belief, but exceptionally well prepared and highly nurtured during their time at BRL. The opportunity to be part of the online private group has been amazing, and our number one avenue of resourceful support. It's great to have so many like minded Labradoodle lovers who are genuinely willing to share their wealth of information, trials, tribulations, and lovely updates/photos of their growth and progress.
There are no regrets when receiving a beautiful pup from Big Rock Labradoodles. Thank you Alana and Big Rock for the beautiful addition to our family.
Jim and Le Smith

Julia Geller

I did thorough research for a standard Australian Labradoodle breeder and chose Big Rock Labradoodles. They really are the best!! Website information was incredible, great tips, weekly puppy updates are amazing! Their selection process shows how much they really care about their puppies. They are amazing!! Alana is very knowledgeable, the puppy information package is superb and very helpful, the puppy kit is amazing and everything your puppy will need at the start without the stress of having to shop for it when you get the puppy!! The delivery by plane was amazing! The puppy came to us at 8 weeks, beautiful personality, sleeping through the night, incredibly intelligent, crate trained and potty trained....he had just a couple of accidents and all our fault....he even asks to go outside when he needs to go. Bruno has brought so much love and joy into our home!! Thank you so much!! There is noone I would recommend more! I talk about Big Rock Labradoodles to everyone!! Bruno is the talk of the neighbourhood! We adore him!!

Dean Hetherington

Hello Alana,

I'm writing to you on behalf of my mother Corinne Tuma who wanted to say thank you for such a precious and sweet dog that they have brought into their home.

From the scream queens litter, they adopted Sigourney Weaver - we believe her dad was Sherman and her mom was Fizza.

They named her Jewel and she is definitely a gem - she's smart, sweet and so gentle. My mom is especially delighted as their past dogs have always gravitated to my step-dad, but Jewel and my mom are inseparable.

I've attached some photos of Jewel (courtesy of my mom of course).

Thank you again for bringing such a bright spirit into my parent's life.

Dean Hetherington (Corinne's son)

Nikki Ledakis

After years of illness, I decided to get a service & breeding prospect from Big Rock due to their holistic rearing methods. Not having a job for 5 years my family contributed the 10K for a breeding dog and it was a big risk but after messaging Alana she told me everything I needed to hear. First puppy had a seizure within a month. I got a new prospect and he got amazing positive reinforcement service level training, at 6 months old he started having dog reactivity but he was still manageable. By 18 months this dog was extremely dog aggressive going after both my male and female dog he had grown up with. He got pulled from service dog work and the only choice was to rehome and we were devastated. I wanted him having the best home and messaged Alana with her response being she would not only not compensate any of the $ 10K spent but she wouldn’t even place him into a proper home. Broadcasting a dog aggressive dog on social media is very dangerous for the dog. I was willing to spend thousands more transporting him back to Canada because I cared deeply for this dog and couldn’t even think about the money. She said she has too many dogs at her place and couldn’t take him. She does not stand by nor care what happens to her dogs. She does not stand by her contract.(will take back a dog) (also covers genetic issues and she admits in an email this aggression was passed from mom) I even told her I would keep him until she found a home so she didn’t have to worry about him and she stopped emailing. She didn’t want the word getting out about her dogs temperament. But I cannot stay silent. My family who took the original dog with the seizures also deals with human and dog reactivity and he’s very hard to manage even just being a pet. The financial and emotional devastation Alana and Big Rock has brought to our family is unthinkable.