Are Cavachons good family dogs?

YES, Oh, a 1000 times YES!

Oh my gosh, please forgive me if I shout, I am so passionate about this breed. Before you decide which puppy to add to your family, you owe it to yourself to learn all about two of the hidden gems in the canine world, the Cavachon and the Cavapoo 💎

Non-shed, extremely hypoallergenic, people magnets, kind, smart, sweet and friendly with everyone, two or four-footed, they are just simply the most WONDERFUL dogs!

There are so many choices. Doodles abound and are lovely dogs, but from experience, when you combine the quieter-natured Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with the fun-loving, super hypoallergenic, heart-healthy Bichon (or Poodle), you get the dream dog. I cannot stand noisy dogs, so sorry, being honest here. Years of working in animal hospitals, past owner of a popular boarding kennel, grooming dogs, showing and handling literally thousands of dogs in my career, and I LOVE quiet, smart, comical Cavachons, and their close relations, the Cavapoos, with my whole heart.

It’s so easy to run off the rails in choosing a puppy for your family, and trust me, I’ve seen nice people make really bad decisions; let me help you bring home an amazing puppy who will make all your dog ownership dreams come true!

For example: My customers share stories all the time about how their dogs might bark to let you know when someone’s at the door but then are friendly and quiet and happily greet visitors without raising the roof lol.

I love good dogs!

Terry, your dogs really are amazing, they are so smart and loving and quiet… Our neighbors have two of the noisiest little dogs, they bark non-stop! The two Cavachons we got from you go outdoors and just stare at them like “Mom, what’s wrong with those dogs?” I love how quiet our girls are!” Debbie in Orlando

• YES! Quieter than the typical Doodles, with a fun-loving and athletic but more relaxed, easy-to-live-with personality.

• Hybrid vigor helps avoid the heart issues that the Cavalier is sometimes prone to. When you breed to a Bichon or Poodle, the F1 (first-generation) hybrid avoids the problems seen in the purebreds.

• Cavachons are hypoallergenic and low to completely non-shed.

I do what I call the black sweater test, he is so amazing; he seldom sheds at all! Maragret in NYC

Cavachons have easy-to-manage silky coats that are simple to maintain with occasional grooming, unlike the huge coats of many Doodles,

• Easy to housetrain, Foxglove Farm Cavachons sleep through the night from day one, almost without exception!

• Cavachons are super smart and trainable. They bond with their human family in a unique way, unlike any dog I’ve known. They are comical, sporty, and fun, but they are also so laid-back and easy to live with.

  
  Looking for the perfect puppy for your family? Have you run into someone in the local dog park walking a Cavachon and found yourself absolutely smitten by the adorable, super-friendly little dog that had your anti-dog hubby asking for the number of the breeder where he came from? The neighbor’s kids just came over with their new Cavapoo puppy, and now your kids are on a campaign to get one of their very own?

My passion for raising exceptional dogs is exceedingly clear, and more importantly, my skill in raising a puppy that is healthy, easy to train and is sleeping through the night from day one in their new home, yes, it’s true!

Placing great puppies in loving homes shines in the face of every puppy I raise, and in the faces of the delighted kids, they go to as well!

Why are our Foxglove Farm customers such devoted fans and return year after year to get a second, third, and even fourth (or fifth!) puppy?

Why am I so much in love with these little Cavalier hybrids, you ask? Why do I think Cavachons and Cavapoos are “dummy-proof” for the novice puppy owner?

I’ve worked on a daily basis for over 30 years with dogs of every breed; from Corgies to Irish Wolfhounds, and I’ve seen the good and bad of life with dogs; I’ve learned that a loving and low-key puppy who has had a excellent start in the fundamentals of life with a two-footed family is so much easier to raise and live with than so many of the dogs out there. Not to mention the other delightful attributes of a Cavachon puppy..

• Cavachons that sleep through the night from day one in their new homes.

• Puppies that are typically 11 - 12 weeks of age before going home mature enough to make housetraining easier for the new puppy owner.

• A 5-Year Health Guarantee. Our goal is to raise the healthiest puppy possible and we back it up with a great guarantee.

• All 3 sets of core puppy vaccines have already been given (a huge savings in expense for the new owner in first-year puppy care.)

• A natural start for every puppy to help ensure a healthy life. Daily NuVet Plus vitamins and high CFU probiotics, premium puppy food that INCLUDES healthy grains (and why you should avoid almost all of the grain-free offerings on the market today.)

• Careful socialization, so every Cavachon puppy experiences life with children and other pets, life in a busy household, and most importantly, learning as tiny puppies that the two-footed people are in always charge, the key to polite puppy lol!

• Health Testing, we depend mainly on OFA checks for cardiac, eye, and patellas, genetic testing is still in it’s infancy and not always the best indicator to help ensure the health of a bloodline. That being said, all the testing in the world is no guarantee, but we have decades of getting it right, our “puppies” typically are still going strong at 15, 16, even 17 years of age!

I send along a week’s supply of NuVet Plus with each of my puppies, I’ve used this product daily with my dogs for over a decade, and I’m convinced it helps prevent so many common illnesses in pets, especially those who are using toxic flea and tick products.

I require using it to activate my health guarantee, I can’t prove it prevents cancer but I believe by experience it does and builds a healthy puppy like no dog food alone can do. My goal is to help each new puppy owner experience success with their puppy, I’ve found that people do an amazing job and raise wonderful puppies with the right tools (and a puppy that already knows the basics when she goes home!

Some of my favorite reviews for Foxglove Farm…

“We love our Cavachon!” How did we live without this dog!?”

"...We absolutely LOVE him. He is just the greatest little puppy! Jim takes him out in the morning before I get up and then I hear the stampede of little paws running up to get in bed with me for a snuggle before we start the day!

He loves to be right by our side but sleeps easily through the night and never complains about going to bed in his crate. He wags his tail so hard he pretty much knocks himself off balance! His disposition is just so sweet and he is really easily corrected. I think he just got a really great start to life.

Our twins could not be more thrilled with him and are learning how to live gently with a little puppy. He already knows how to sit and shake! He has a new buddy in the neighborhood, Monty the Maltipoo : ) Anyway, thanks again for your hard work getting him ready to come to us! Everyone asks us what kind of dog he is and where we got him!”  

Stephanie Whittaker and family in Boston

You can read more Cavachon reviews from our delighted Puppy People here including one from Lisa in Arizonia. Lisa and her extended family have purchased SIX Foxglove Farm puppies in the last decade or so! It’s not unusual for people to come back to us for a second or third puppy. I hear this all the time;

“This is the best dog our family has ever owned, our friends purchased a Cavachon from another breeder and their trainer told them there was nothing like a Foxglove Farm puppy!”

Our families are fans of Foxglove Farm puppies for life, we love our Puppy People!

What's a Cavachon? Hypoallergenic & Low to Non-shed. Exceedingly loving and beautiful family pets!

Looking for the perfect puppy for your family? Have you run into someone in the local dog park walking a Cavachon and found yourself absolutely smitten by the adorable super friendly little dog that had your anti-dog hubby asking for the number of the breeder where he came from?  The neighbor’s kids just came over with their new Foxglove Farm puppy, and now your kids are on a campaign to get one of their own?  

What's all the fuss about Cavachons? I’m glad you asked!

What is a Cavachon?

The Cavachon, a beautiful canine creature that almost never barks? A dog that has the most mellow and sweet personality, laidback but fun and sporty too? A four-footed companion that doesn’t shed? Oh, PUPPY BLISS! Do Cavachons make good family pets??? The answer is a resounding YES!

Cavachons are such amazing dogs. The most kid-friendly & dependable family pets, loving and exceedingly gentle, once you have one, you’ll agree with the thousands of people who are utterly smitten with the delightful Cavachon, too! I've never been a fan of small, barky, high-strung dogs and found that the Cavachon, a blending of the adorable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with the clownish people-loving Bichon Frise, created an utterly beautiful small dog who is hypo-allergenic and very low to completely non-shed. A small dog with a sporty and fun disposition but one who also has a mellow and laid-back personality.  

By the way, they are one of the best choices for a mellow and easy-to-live-with family dog if you have children. Cavachons (and the Cavapoo as well) are uniquely well suited for kids; they are kind and loving, happy to spend lots of time being held and carried around. The happy other side of these two breeds is that they’re quite athletic for a relatively small-sized dog. They enjoy just about any family activity, from swimming to hiking and just about anything else you can dream up.

Though small in stature, they have the heart and sensibilities of a much larger dog, dependably kind and sweet-natured with the youngest child yet playful enough for the older ones too.

Years of working with dogs, not only as a dog breeder, but also as a veterinary technician, obedience trainer & even owning an upscale bed and biscuit on a beautiful sea island in South Carolina, have given me a vast amount of doggie experience.  That serves this Cavachon breeder quite well in helping families chose the perfect family pet.

I've seen the chaos that owning the wrong dog can bring to a family, dogs that bark and bite, dogs that run away, dogs that are impossible to house train, the list goes on and on.

After retiring from the boarding kennel business, (I'm writing a book about that season of our dog life!) I began raising Cavachons.  I'd always loved big dogs and found the heart of a larger canine in this "forever puppy" this genuinely sweet natured and gentle small dog.  

Are Cavachons hard to house train? 

I don’t know about anyone else, but my puppy owners rave about how easy their Cavachons are to potty train…

"She's only had one accident in a week and that was my fault!"  

"He slept right through the night in his crate from day one!"

“These puppies are AMAZING (from an owner of 2 of our puppies) they go to sleep at 10:30 pm and I don’t hear a peek from them until 8 in the morning!”

"This is the easiest puppy I've ever raised!!!

Or my favorite from a few days ago,,,

Another area where years of experience make a huge difference in the trainability of the puppies I raise and just one of the many reasons why my Inbox is filled with letters from our past happy puppy people that make for wonderful Foxglove Farm reviews!

Now, even with such glowing accolades, of course, I'm not proclaiming that a Foxglove puppy will arrive house-trained and never have an accident.  That would be totally unrealistic, but I am saying that if you are diligent, and everyone in the family studies New Puppy 101 (which shows you exactly how to set up the proper playpen, nighttime crate, etc to create boundaries and help your puppy learn the rules in her new abode). Getting a Foxglove puppy? No need to purchase a copy, you’ll receive access before your puppy arrives in her new home so you can do your puppy homework and be a house-training Ninja from day one!

How big do Cavachons get?

We raise two sizes of Cavachon for people who are looking for either a smaller size super portable canine companion, or a slightly larger more sporty version.

• “Toy” 10-15 pounds (occasionally a tiny one even smaller).

• “Standard" 15 to 22 pounds on average.

Both sizes are perfectly sturdy, just a matter of personal preference, though small dogs have the heart of their larger canine counterparts. Look at these scenes of one of our Foxglove puppies enjoying a day at the beach!

Cavachons are gentle & loving, easy to house train, and affectionate with children, and other pets in the family (cats included).

My feedback has been that Cavachons are extremely easy to house train, (We give them a super start which makes your job easier) They require less frequent grooming than many hybrids and have low-maintenance silky wavy coats.

Cavachons and Hybrid Vigor

Very hardy & healthy, my vet says they are blessed with “Hybrid Vigor”, which typically produces a Cavachon puppy free of many genetic problems associated with today’s average purebred dog!

I love the personality of these little Cavachon dolls as well, happy little folk. They are cheerful & full of good will & simply delightful as companions & family pets. I can’t say enough nice things about Cavachon puppies. I have seen too many lovely purebred dogs with such heartbreaking issues, both in temperament & health.

I truly believe by combining totally unrelated bloodlines in the parents, we product Cavachons that are much sounder in every way! I showed purebred dogs for years, and I love them. But i have had first hand experience with what inbreeding can do to even the most beautifully bred AKC canine!!!

Thoughts on owning a Cavachon

As a long-time dog breeder, I know how important it is to raise a puppy in a way that makes them easy to train & eager to please. Without good early training, they learn bad habits that may last a lifetime!  It's unfortunate that many little dogs turn into high-energy small breeds that require the patience of a saint to live with, I call it the "small dog syndrome" and while I love the size and low maintenance of smaller canines, often what goes along with them is a less than desirable temperament, one that barks noisily for little reason, one that is simply too tightly wound and energetic and in many ways is a less than ideal choice for a family pet.  

I fell in love with the Cavachon nearly two decades ago; in my opinion, they are as close to the perfect companion as you'll find, the offspring of the sweet & gentle Cavalier King Charles Spaniel & the hypo-allergenic non-shedding comical little snowball, the Bichon Frise. Combined, these two super companions canines create an even more delightful canine creation, a wonderfully gentle yet sporty Fido with the beautiful coat pattern and markings of the exquisitely colored Cavalier & the hypo-allergenic and non-shed qualities of the Bichon Frise. 

In addition to the exceedingly desirable coat characteristics of the purebred parents, the Cavachon puppy also inherits one of the most delightful personalities of any breed I've ever handled. They are, in addition to being most affectionate and sweet-natured, extremely smart and easy to train, an important trait in any family companion.

They are almost without exception, an extra quiet breed, not barkers, not hyper, but dependably happy & sweet; they love to cuddle & are wonderful as children's pets. Cavachons have the heart and sensibilities of larger breeds; they love to join in just about any family activity, from swimming or boating (Cavachons LOVE the water!) I've always been a big dog lover, and Cavachons are a perfect fit if you don't want a "fou fou" dog. I believe that a Foxglove Cavachon will be the most loved & easy to live with puppy you'll ever own!

If you want a more athletic and sporty canine in an easy to manage size, one that makes you laugh, but doesn't shed all over your furniture, one that rides happily along to Starbucks for a Latte, but doesn't make your allergies act up, one that snoozes by your feet in the evenings, and resides happily with everyone from your Golden Retriever to the family feline,,, look no further, you have found the Cavachon, the PERFECT PUPPY!

Beautiful, Brilliant Cavachon Puppies For Sale

Why is everyone raving about what great family dogs they make? 

Find out why our puppy people are our biggest fans and why dozens of them have sent family and friends with instructions that Foxglove Farm is the only place to go if you want a great puppy!

(You can read more Cavachon puppy reviews here : )

You can pick up your puppy here at Foxglove Farm in Ohio or if you need your puppy delivered, we have the flight nanny delivery available!

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My other passion after raising the best puppies on the planet?

Years working as a veterinary technician were invaluable for an inside look at pet health and how many of the ways we care for our pets end up making them ill and in need of expensive veterinary interventions.  Those years gave me a burning desire to point pet owners to the right dog foods, the best probiotics and supplements to help their dogs and cats stay well. After raising amazing family pets, my mission is to help those puppies grow up to be healthy dogs for a lifetime!   

Our dogs face more health challenges than ever before.  From excess vaccinations to chemically treated lawns & monthly (toxic!) flea drops, whether or not you get a Foxglove Farm puppy, please spend some time learning the simple steps you can take to help your new puppy live a longer healthier life!   

"Thank you for your dedication to developing a holistic approach to treating our 4-legged family members!" Kelly in Colorado              

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