About Sutter Buttes & South Mountain Doodles

Brandi, the founder of both SBL|SMD, works all hours of the day answering emails and texts from our clients. She sets into motion which breedings will be planned for the year and manages all client relations. She also oversees the social media aspect of our program.

Allie has been working with SBL|SMD since 2013 and has been a business partner since 2016. Allie oversees all SBL|SMD breedings, organizes puppy deliveries, manages the guardian program and is in charge of SBL puppy pick-up days.

Lorena is another one of our amazing team members! She has been working with SBL since 2016 and has taken on a more extensive roll within the SBL|SMD program. With our Bernedoodle program, she oversees many of the breedings, organizes puppy deliveries, manages the guardian program and is in charge of SBL|SMD puppy pick up days.

Abbie is another key team member in our SMD program! Coming on in 2018, Abbie will manage several of our breedings, deliver and raise litters for us in 2019 and beyond. Sister to Allie, Abbie has a lot of first hand knowledge and experience under her belt already. She will also work with families on our infamous Gotcha Days when families pick up theirs new additions.

Shari is another SBL|SMD team member who we love and adore! She has several years of experience in delivering and raising amazing puppies! She is a big part of the SBL|SMD program and will deliver and raise litters as well as work with families on Gotcha Days when families come to pick out their new doodle pup!

Shannon is our litter coordinator and office manager and quite frankly, she is the best! Shannon takes on all new inquiries and leads them in the right direction as far as helping new families decide which litter may be best suited for them. She is always available for a call, text or email and works endlessly making sure everyone feels well taken care of. Customer service is her strong suit! She is a people person and everyone who gives feedback on her just adores her! She has been well trained in the doodle world because she also happens to be Brandi’s mom.

Maria joined the SBL|SMD team in 2020 and has been a huge blessing to all of us. Whatever needs to be done she just rolls up her sleeves and takes care of it! She is an amazing doula to our delivering mama dogs and an excellent caretaker of puppies. She helps arrange and coordinate breedings as well as works with many of our families on Gotcha Day.

Elka joined the team in 2019 and has become quite the apprentice. As Brandi’s niece she has learned many of the traits needed to keep SBL|SMD the success that it is. She has delivered litters and raised them successfully. She even learned to tube feed a special needs puppy that we had and raised her into a healthy, thriving and socialized little doodle! Elka will take on any challenge that comes her way and has even began working with families at Gotcha Day. We are so happy she has chosen to learn this business. She is a natural and all of our dogs and puppies adore her as do we!

Whitney has been a part of team SBL|SMD from its roots as she is Brandi’s sister. She began to take a more active roll in 2019 and we are so happy she did. She raises litters for the program and does many of our Gotcha Days in which she meets with and blesses our new families with their new additions. She is also began The Doodle Lyft service which serves clients who need their puppy driven to them in the California region. She has also become famous for her Gotcha Day puppy massages in which each pup gets its very own spa session before making their way to their new homes.

We also work with many outstanding guardian families within our program. We choose never to be a kennel based program and instead choose to have all of our breeding dogs living with qualified families throughout California and Arizona. Our handpicked guardian families are simply amazing and a huge part of our team. We are grateful for them and their devotion to our program!

Reba 1991-2004

What got us interested in Doodles?? The answer to that question is very easy. We had a black Labrador Retriever which we adored. She was a housedog and a huge part of our family – royalty in our book. Reba was very special to us because she came to us at three years of age when my grandfather passed away. She was his dog and she treasured my grandfather. He trained her at 5 months of age to retrieve anything he needed…(remote control, hats, keys, tools, soda cans, wallet…etc.). She could do every trick in the book by 6 months of age. He took great pride in her ability to learn several tricks a day, and she loved to please him. We were honored to take her into our home and she quickly realized we were going to spoil her like crazy.

The only negative I could EVER say about Reba is that she shed … and her hair was everywhere! We all have allergy problems and the shedding did not help! As she got older we often thought about getting another lab, but the thought of all that dog hair made us question it. Then one day I was reading Fortune Magazine and came across an article about Labradoodles that I found very intriguing. Shortly thereafter I saw the delightful dogs romping around on the set of the Today Show – It was then I became hooked and knew that I had to get my hands on one of these fabulous creatures! How wonderful…dogs with the temperaments and sweetness of a Labrador and the intelligence and allergy-friendly (no-to-low shedding) coats of a Poodle! That is why we started Sutter Buttes Labradoodles & South Mountain Doodles.