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Australian Shepherds and 

Golden Retrievers available now! 

Welcome to Hope and Joy Acres! 

At Hope and Joy Acres, we specialize in breeding Aussiedoodles, Australian Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, and Goldendoodles. Our passion for animals extends to our excellent Tennessee Walking Horses (TWH), and we take pride in our expert horse training, equine education, and exceptional horse boarding services.

Producing healthy, loving, trainable, and adorable puppies!

Correctly gaited, intelligent, and calm Tennessee Walking Horses!

To see horses/puppies for sale on mobile device, click on the 2 lines top right of screen and choose Currently Available. On a desktop/laptop click the Currently Available tab, top left of your screen.

If you're on the hunt for an intelligent, loyal, and loving canine companion, our carefully bred Aussiedoodles, Australian Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, and Goldendoodles will undoubtedly capture your heart.

Contact us today!

For equestrian enthusiasts, our riding lessons cater to all skill levels, from beginners eager to learn to seasoned riders seeking to refine their techniques. Learn on our remarkable, gaited Tennessee Walking Horses (TWH).

We train gaited breeds for: gait evaluation and correction, rider seat correction, ground manners, foals/yearlings desensitizing, and do saddle/tack fit.

Also, check out our horse sale page for foals and other great horses for sale!

What we offer…

10% discounts on all puppies and horses (not including breeding stud fees/mare care) for: military members, teachers, pastors, police, and first responders. Also for multiple dog/horse purchases and return buyers.

  • Aussies! All of our Aussies are genetically tested and have hips cleared (no dysplasia). They are purebred, standard sized Australian Shepherds, who meet all breed standards.

    Click on the Currently Available to see what puppies are for sale now.

  • Doodles! All of our Aussiedoodles parents are genetically tested and have hips cleared (no dysplasia). They are medium to large sized, F1 (50/50) and combine the best of both breeds.

    Click on the Currently Available to see what puppies are for sale now.

  • Goldens! All of our Golden Retrievers are genetically tested and have hips cleared (no dysplasia). They are AKC registered, purebred, medium sized (not giants), who meet all breed standards. We will add Goldens to our breeding program in 2024.

    Click on the Currently Available to see what puppies are for sale now.

  • Doodles! All of our Goldendoodles parents are genetically tested and have hips cleared (no dysplasia). They are medium to large sized, F1 (50/50) and combine the best of both breeds.. We will add Goldendoodles to our breeding program in 2024.

    Click on the Currently Available to see what puppies are for sale now.

  • Walkers! We breed correctly gaited, intelligent, and calm purebred Tennessee Walking Horses. We focus on breeding foals who are easily trained, willing to please, structurally sound, and of course going to do a correct, square four beat running walk.

    Click on the Currently Available to see what foals are for sale now.

  • Training! We train Tennessee Walking Horses who need better ground manners, foals needing basics, gait correction and refinement of natural barefooted (or keg shod) horses, and tweaking of saddle manners.

    Contact us for TWH training space availability and costs.

  • We offer limited number of riding lessons for ages 14 and up, on one of our safe horses or we can come to your property to give lessons on your horse. We focus mostly on barefoot (or keg shod) Tennessee Walking Horses and other gaited breeds.

    We offer full care boarding. This includes turn out, daily feed/hay as needed, weekly grooming, farrier, and annual vaccinations. Contact us for more information.

    Riding lessons are 1-1.5 hours and cost $40.

  • We also make rustic home decorations from reclaimed and repurposed wood. We do participate in some local craft shows and do pickup/local deliver of our creations. We do this on the side, for fun. Feel free to contact us if you have any specific requests.

    Click on the Currently Available to see what décor we have made, can make, and is for sale now.

  • We do our best to keep our puppies resonably priced compared to most out there - especially coming from all genetically tested parents and OFA hip certified parents. We get asked why aren’t puppies like $300…here is why. The cost of your puppy includes: first and foremost keeping the puppies indoors is a ton more work than “barn” or “kennel” puppies so 2 months of our lives are dedicated to caring for/cleaning up after/training/socializing your puppy, cost of stud fee to breed our female (range from $750-1,000 per breeding), vaccines, deworming 4x, disposable puppy pads, vinegar for cleaning, paper towels for cleaning (During weeks 5-8, we go through 1 large bounty role per day per litter!), higher electricity bill from running 3 loads of laundry per day for reusable puppy pads, lots of laundry detergent, puppy food, whelping box, toys, paper/ink for contracts, registration fees when applicable, parents’ genetic testing/OFA fees, advertising and website fees, keeping our females healthy and alive so we can breed them to make your puppy, puppy gates/play pens, replacing reusable pads as needed, nail clipping, bathing and blowing dry puppies several times, weight gainer and extra food (around 12 cups of performance feed per day) for mom when she is nursing, and some other extras.