Hello and Thank You for Taking the Time to Learn more about US, the ones behind the scenes, at Massachusetts Bernedoodles & Goldendoodles, LLC located in Ashby, Massachusetts

By way of introduction, my name is Kim Clinton and this is the MBD family! I am the Sole Proprietor and Founder of Massachusetts Bernedoodles and Goldendoodles, LLC, a Woman owned and Women run Small Business located in Beautiful Ashby, Massachusetts!

About Me?

Well, there’s more detail below but to keep it concise, I wanted to be a veterinarian ever since I can remember but, long story short, I ended up with a degree in Psychology! So, I raised the kids, worked in Health Care for 20 years and then decided to start MBD in 2015! As it turns out, being Ethical and Transparent was quite popular and everyone LOVED watching the Live Puppy Cameras for all 8 weeks! At that point, I chose to leave my previous career and start my own business as a Professional Dog Breeder and Trainer. That’s the short version.

It Takes a Village!

At MBD, we are a FAMILY! Respect, Appreciation, Trust, Hard Work, followed by VACATION… to rest between seasons. These are some of the most important components in having a happy team. MBD’s employees are hand selected by the owner, me, and they are the reason MBD is SO GREAT! Massachusetts Bernedoodles LLC produces THE BEST DOODLES in the world…but I’m slightly biased so you can be the judge!

☝️ A Testament to the Hard Work and Dedication the MBD Team puts into our Bernedoodle Babies! ☝️

Our Bernedoodles are often described as…Amazingly CALM, Loyal, Fun-loving, Family Friendly, Strangly Human, Wicked SMAHT, Loyal, Fluffy, Floofy, Absolutely Hilarious, Water Loving, Adventurous yet Easy Going, “Anything, as long as I can be your SIDEKICK” kind of dogs anyone would absolutely adore ❤️

Together, with my talented on-site team and loving guardian homes, we are MBD!

Hands-on, Small Animal Reproductive Medicine is something I am continually taught by licensed veterinarians & by trusted mentors. I have been actively involved, doing my best to be a great teacher to MBD managers, caretakers and students. As the owner, it’s my responsibility to know, with certainty, that we uphold the highest standards possible, so every dog and puppy Lives their Best Life!

Together with the MBD Team, we oversee our honeymooners, pregnancies, guardians, puppy development and socialization, postpartum health and of course, our handsome Sires.

When we have puppies in the nursery or in our Training Facility, which is all year, my primary role is to make sure everyone stays well socialized, healthy and happy. However, I wouldn’t be able to do it alone! The MBD Team is as dedicated as I am to ensuring we are doing a great job, in every department.

MBD employs Post Masters, Post Graduates and high school Co-Op students, everyone working together, hands-on. They pay close attention to every detail, continuously demonstrate commitment and reliability at the highest level, always giving 110% when on the job. We are a team and together…

WE ARE MBD!

The MBD team is comprised of professionals, students & hard working individuals who share the same love and passion for dogs! We are all passionate about raising the bar for all breeders, worldwide, via

Transparency, Education and Wholesome, Family Fun via our VIP 24/7 Live Puppy Cameras!

It is such a honor to teach some of the Most Intelligent, Passionate, Loving, Dedicated Individuals Imaginable, We Pour Our Hearts and Souls into each and every puppy or dog at MBD. We LOVE every single moment of what we do!

We are Proud to Offer You “The Epic Journey from Birth to Take Homr Day” ….Transparent, Educational and even Entertaining!

The full 8 weeks is yours to enjoy via our Live 24/7 Puppy Cameras and, believe me, you will LOVE it!

Our aim is to be 100% transparent, to provide education about all of the things that go into responsible and ethical dog breeding, when it’s done the right way! Watching these puppies grow, you will also get to know their personalities so by the time you meet them, on “Gotcha Day”, you will already have a good idea of who your top choices are. It’s the Miracle of birth to 8 weeks old, which you’ll get to enjoy and learn from, when you decide to adopt from MBD.

We LOVE dogs & have always been committed to not only being a highly reputable and ethical, Professional Dog Breeding business but also to setting the bar high for breeders nationwide.

With our dedicated 24/7 Team of Managers, Animal Care Professionals and/or a Service Dog Trainer on-site, it really makes for smooth sailing. With our 24/7 live puppy cams available to our customers, you will be able to see everything that happens behind the scenes! All that goes into postpartum mom care to raising neonate puppies from newborn to “Gotcha Day”. I’ve been told, it’s pretty incredible!

There is nothing more important than a little PRIVACY, LOTS of LOVE & knowing your babies are safe, that’s for sure! We want the same for our moms so we have a nursery for them, complete with an incubator (just in case)! MBD has been renovated such that every mom has her own Private Suite. Every suite comes with a built in heating element to keep her puppies warm, a sound machine, meals served “meatball” style, a bed and a play area that expands as the puppies grow! We run the nursery like any other and we track EVERYTHING. All of this allows mom feel safe enough to focus on her puppies, take a break as needed and wean, according to her natural rhythm and free from stress hormones.

Complete transparency has always been the primary purpose of the 24/7 live puppy cameras. It’s important for you to know that the first eight weeks of your fur-baby’s life was filled with love and enrichment so they can grow into healthy, loving companions. It’s just as important to know the parent dogs are treated like the kings and queens they are!

Healthy, Happy Parents make Healthy, Happy Puppies. It’s that Simple.

The cameras help clients in the puppy selection process. What better way is there to get to know each puppy while they’re growing other than by watching them? How else would you actually know what went on? The Live Puppy Cameras are an excellent educational tool for children and adults as they provide education around ethical dog breeding practices. Puppies don’t just magically appear in the window of a pet store, as we all thought growing up. In fact, the “doggie in window” likely didn’t come from an ethical breeder at all, sadly, but we didn’t know then what we know now. Our Live Puppy Cameras also provide FREE wholesome family entertainment and serve as a healthy outlet to end the long school or work day, bonding together!

Our Head Puppy Trainer brings 30+ Years of Licensed SERVICE DOG Training Experience!

So…What Differentiates Massachusetts Bernedoodles from other Dog Breeders?….A LOT

To name a few more…

• MBD is a small, woman owned, business and our aim is to set the standard for what good breeding practices look like. We train all of our employees in a hands on environment and we are on Handshake, the primary platform for finding college internships! We are proud to have a very diverse company culture and we are truly blessed to live in the USA.
• We value everyone on the team regardless of their strengths and we work hard to develop areas of opportunity. MBD is a learning institution and we host students from all over the northeast. Together, we are known as the MBD Dream Team!
• All of our dogs either live with a Guardian Family or they live with me. They either live in my home and go to our kennel-free “doggie daycare” during the day or they live at homes with our Guardians! They live like the Kings and Queens they are, traveling, watching TV, sleeping in beds, having play groups and running around with our dedicated team of animal caretakers and guardian homes.
• We work with several veterinarians but our puppy well visit veterinarian is Kelly Wolfenson-Guay DVM. She has been kind enough to act as a mentor to me, for which I am so grateful. Dr. Guay graduated from Tufts University in 1999 and taught at Tufts Medical School. She is a fantastic teacher & mentor and she’s AMAZING at her job. WE ARE DEDICATED TO having the HIGHEST quality of care. We are so lucky to have her!
• We believe that if a puppy is born alive, s/he should stay alive. If a puppy develops complications (which thankfully is rare), it doesn’t matter how much it will cost or if it’s the middle of the night. I will 100% do everything in my power to get that puppy well again!
• We have 24/7 care which includes the overnights. I know this is the primary reason why we have such a low mortality rate at <1%. Every little life matters. You can see for yourself on the live cameras!
• Each puppy receives early neurological stimulation beginning on day 3 and continuing until 8 weeks old. A large military study found that puppies who are raised with these exercises are getting a huge head start in becoming happy, confident adult dogs! This website provides more information about the neuro stim exercises https://breedingbetterdogs.com/article/early-neurological-stimulation
• Each puppy is raised with PUPPY CULTURE undergoes temperament aptitude testing using the Volhard method. This is a great tool we use to help match puppies with the right fit for a family. Here is more information about the Volhard testing https://www.searchdogs.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Volhard-Puppy-Aptitude-Test.pdf
• The parent dogs go on walks and hikes and live happy doggie lives! Many of the employees bring the parent dogs home for several days at a time for socialization which is key to long term happiness.
• The mom’s have a total of 4 pregnancies in their life, assuming no complications, and retire from breeding around 5 years old. After retiring, they continue to live with me or with their guardian families. When they’re ready to retire, they are spayed, have their teeth cleaned and they are ready to go to their furever homes or remain with their Guardians!
• The standard for breeders, according to the AKC, ranges between 9-12 litters!! I wouldn’t want to have more than 4 pregnancies in my lifetime so why would they? This is why we limit the number of litters to 4 maximum.

We feel strongly about the way we run our Professional Dog Breeding business because, as most people know, there are a lot of puppy mills and “back yard Breeders” out there. These are not professional dog breeders. The puppy mills are all over the country and they have become “smarter” in recent years because they know most people don’t want a sick puppy from a puppy mill. The puppy mills are are also the ones supplying 3rd party pet stores and websites with their puppies.

It’s tricky to identify a puppy mill breeder now because they present the image of an ethical breeder online and on social media platforms.

However, the sad truth is that they continue to treat their parent dogs terribly by keeping them in crates 23 out of 24 hours in the day. It’s horrific. In these conditions, they are forced to relieve themselves on top of each other and they only come out of their crates for breeding purposes. They neglect their grooming and socialization needs and they usually don’t do any sort of health testing.

Puppy Mills over breed the mom’s until they can no longer have puppies and then they are killed when they can no longer reproduce. It’s SO sad. It’s even legal in some states for these puppy millers to kill their own dog(s). They do this because they don’t want the negative publicity that would come with rehabilitating then re-homing these beautiful creatures, now in horrible condition mentally and physically so they just kill them.

In puppy mills, the dogs are not health tested for common heritable diseases which they pass on to their puppies. They over crowded and are used for the sole purpose of breeding until they can no longer carry a litter. At that point, sadly, many are killed so the public will never see the evidence of horrible dog breeding practices. The puppies aren’t healthy or well socialized, they receive the bare minimum in terms of health care and they will not bring mom to an ER if a postpartum medical emergency happens. Instead, they don’t do anything and the mom passes away. They ship puppies all over the country and most puppies are sick upon arrival or become sick soon thereafter. It’s just sad and it should be illegal. This is where much of the Parvo outbreaks occur as well.

One of our goals is to expose these puppy mills by educating our consumers.

The puppies coming from MBD are very LOVED, very healthy, very happy and very well socialized, just like their parents.

We have been, and you should be, very selective when choosing which breeder to adopt your new furbaby from. Puppy mills are now contacting breeders like myself and saying “I have a litter of tri-colored Bernedoodle puppies and will sell them to you for $600 each. Then you can sell them for whatever you want!” The mills know most people don’t want a puppy mill puppy so now they do most of their business through the unethical “in-home” breeders or pet stores who buy from them, as a 3rd party, and then sell these puppies to unsuspecting families. This is called “commercial dog breeding” which is very different from Professional, Personal Dog Breeding. It disgusts me and I would never do business with a puppy mill. How do you know your puppy isn’t coming from a puppy mill? Because you have access to the 24-7 live puppy cameras from the time the puppies are born until they come home with you between 8-9 weeks old. If there are 8 puppies born in a litter then there will always be 8 puppies on the live puppy cam beginning on Day One.

Future fur-baby parents are welcome to visit my home, by appointment, meet the parents and see the loving environment that our parent dogs and their puppies live in. In addition, as mentioned above, should you Choose MBD, as soon as the puppies are all born and mom is settled, you are given access to their LIVE 24/7 Puppy Cam!

A little about me ….

and why I decided to start breeding puppies after a career in the healthcare industry:

I decided to start breeding Bernedoodles because I fell in love with the breed and I have always wanted to own my own business. I started out in college as a pre-vet student, but my hopes were dashed when I was told by my advisor that he didn’t think I had what it took. Unfortunately, at 17 years old, I didn’t have the guts to say “what the heck do you know about me? I’m staying!” so I switched majors and graduated Summa cum laude with a degree in Psychology and Sociology. After 15 years in the healthcare industry, I decided it was time for a change.

I began this journey in many ways the same way you are starting your journey to find the right breeder and puppy. I traveled around the country visiting potential breeders, researching, doing what most of you are doing right now! Along the way, I was fortunate enough to find Three amazing mentors with 35+ years each of experience! They helped me tremendously and continue to, even to this day! I learned both what I should be doing and what I would do differently to produce the best Bernedoodle & Goldendoodle puppies available anywhere. They even inspired me to mentor those who would like to learn. These mentors also produce the best Berners and Poodles, while avoiding the unethical practices that inevitably lead to short lives. Having sound health is #1 to a successful breeding program. But that’s not all!

Why Bernedoodles? Well, I instantly fell in love with their teddy bear look, non-shedding coats, the variety of colors/patterns they come in, their intelligence, temperament & loyalty. The combination of Bernese Mountain Dog, which is a working dog (gone lazy over the generations) and well selected, CALM poodles and bernedoodles to be the dad. In plain English, I chose the Bernedoodle because the end result is a beautiful, non-shedding, Hybrid Cross that combines Loyalty & Intelligence and leaves Hyper behind! You’ll notice they are much calmer than other doodles and every other Bernedoodle, right from 8 weeks old! When parents are well selected & provided the right environment when growing, your MBD Bernedoodle puppy will want to be with you. When you go hiking or walking, they stop when they can’t see you vs. eventually stopping or eventually coming back on their own. That’s the loving, loyal Bernedoodle.

While I can’t speak for/to what other breeders of Bernedoodle puppies do or, for example, if they choose a calm poodle for the dad vs. a high strung poodle, I can with 100% confidence say that

MBD Bernedoodle puppies are healthy, well socialized puppies that don’t go through the crazy hyper phase most doodle/non-doodle puppies go through.

In addition, at MBD we breed for temperament. For example, I breed them for the right balance of love and loyalty to make off leash training much easier and faster. How do I achieve that? By choosing the parent dogs, carefully, based on their health and temperament.

Since the time I was in grade school, I knew that one day I would work with dogs because I love dogs so much! I want to share this wonderful Bernedoodle breed with other dog lovers because

Bernedoodles are great for Families, Couples, Senior Citizens, and/or Singles.

They are great company, easy-going, affectionate, smart, loyal and 99% of the puppies coming from here are non-shedding.

Bernedoodles inherit the best traits of both the Poodle and the Bernese Mountain Dog. Poodles are very intelligent, easy to train, appropriately energetic and non-shedding. However, poodles can sometimes be “high strung” especially as they get smaller. Poodles can also be “Yippy, Snippy & Stubborn” if not well bred.

Not our MBD Poodle dads! We have the sweetest boys ever. We have selected poodles that have calm, sweet personalities and thankfully, they have passed this gene on to their puppies generation after generation! See the dad’s page for details.

For many of our customers, allergies to shedding dogs are an issue. Most Bernedoodles are Non-Shedding!

In general, doodles are considered the best option for most people with allergies. I feel that every responsible person who would like to have a companion dog should have the opportunity to have one, even if they have allergies to shedding dogs. However, I don’t market my doodles as “hypoallergenic” because people can also have allergies to dog dander and/or saliva.

If you would like to join a list for an upcoming litter, please fill out the puppy adoption form or you can also email me, Kim, at Puppyinquiries@mabernedoodles.com. You may also call/text me at 774-452-5567. For the adoption application, please click here.

Coming in 2024…

Mini Goldendoodles! Please click here to learn more!

MEET MILLIE!