RETIRED - Falconwood Valkyrie (Sheepadoodle)

Valkyrie is calm, loving and easy in every way.  She has a sense for when you just need a big warm hug.  She has a way of making you feel loved.  Valkyrie has many nick names, Valky Doo, Doobely Doo and Dubby to name a few.  She is the most human like dog we have ever met.

Valkyrie is an F2 Sheepadoodle. She is 32kg and 61cm at the shoulder.  She has a luscious wavy non shedding coat and Tuxedo markings.  

Valkyries favorite thing to do is lay on her back with her tummy and giant paws exposed so that you can spend your time tickling her tummy.  She spends her nights bed surfing between my sons bed and ours.  Even though she is a large dog she could easily live in an apartment.  Her favourite thing to do is cuddle her humans and play in the 3 acre paddock with the rest of her pack.

Proudly Bred by Falconwood:  This dog was born and raised here at Falconwood and is the result of careful breeding decisions focused on health, temperament and ethical breeding.

Height: 62cm

Weight: 32kg

Coat:  Fleece

Type:  F2

Sire:  Surprize (outside Sire)

Dam:  Torvi

DNA Health Testing - Laboratory:  Embark 

RESULT - Clear (0 copies detected):

• Chondrodystrophy & IVDD (CDDY)
• Degenerative Myelopathy (DM)
• Exercise-Induced Collapse (EIC)
• GM2 Gangliosidosis
• Hereditary Ataxia
• MDR1 Drug Sensitivity
• Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures (NEWS)
• Osteochondrodysplasia (Skeletal Dwarfism)
• Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)
• Progressive Retinal Atrophy (prcd-PRA)
• Von Willebrand Disease Type I (vWD)

DNA Health Summary -

✔ No disease-causing variants detected for any of the 244 conditions tested.

Hip & Elbow Testing

• Hip & Elbow VetScore: 6/106  - Plain English explanation: A lower score is better. A score of 6/106 is considered an excellent result, a score of 0 indicates perfect hips while a score of 106 is the worst possible score.
• Elbows Vet Score: 0/0 - Plain English explanation: A lower score is better. A score of 0/0 is considered perfect elbows.

Falconwood’s health testing program has evolved over time as new technologies and research have become available. Earlier dogs may have Hip & Elbow VetScoring or PennHIP, while our more recently tested dogs have completed both assessments. Each test provides different information, and together they help us make informed breeding decisions. To learn more about our testing protocols and why some dogs have different assessments, please visit our Health Testing Explained page.

DNA testing is one part of Falconwood’s comprehensive health screening program. Our breeding dogs also undergo PennHIP, Hip & Elbow VetScoring, and other relevant health assessments to help us make informed breeding decisions.

A copy of each parent dog’s health testing results is included in our puppy owners’ information pack at the time of collection, providing families with complete transparency regarding their puppy’s parents.

To the best of our knowledge, Falconwood is among the very few Sheepadoodle breeders in Australia that undertake this level of comprehensive health testing, and possibly the only breeder to publicly share the health results of our breeding dogs on our website.

We do not publish the original certificates on our website, as they contain personal information, including owner details and other identifying information. Instead, we provide a clear summary of each dog’s results, while the original documentation is available to our puppy families.

We are incredibly proud of the health results achieved by our dogs. At Falconwood, we are committed to continually reviewing new research, embracing advances in health testing, and making thoughtful breeding decisions so that each generation has the opportunity to be healthier than the last.