News Corp Australia
First published 11 Oct 2024, 4:30am
Dog lovers hoping to get their hands on SA’s largest breeding facility may be left long-faced with the owners of Cute Country Cavoodles hitting paws on the sale of the controversial enterprise.
Business owner Debbie Hawkins will retain ownership of the Langhorne Creek property at 882 Milang Rd, which has been pulled off the market despite receiving an offer above its $1.5m price guide from a motivated buyer.
The sale would have included 36 breeding dogs, ranging from six months to three-and-a-half years old, and council approval to breed or house up to 84 dogs.
It also would have included a waiting list of 210 people ready to purchase a puppy, with the business set up to breed and sell dogs all-year-round.
“I actually did get it sold but it’s since been pulled off market as the owners changed their mind,” selling agent Sylvia Jemson-Ledger of Elders Real Estate Strathalbyn said.
“But they got their last bit of figures through and realised the business is quite profitable.”
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The property on Milang Road had been listed with a price guide of $1.5m.
The breeding facility has council permission to house up to 84 dogs.
At time of sale, the business had 210 buyers waiting to buy a cavoodle puppy.
The facility includes exercise yards and airconditioned kennels.
The sale of the property sparked a little controversy online with some labelling the business a puppy mill.
However, many Cute Country Cavoodles customers hit back in defence of the business, describing the facility as clean and ethically run with all puppies loved and cared for by the owners.
Spanning across 3.74ha of land, the property features a four-bedroom manager’s residence with rustic interiors, an office block with a grooming salon, a granny flat for visitors and a number of outbuildings and paddocks for horses and livestock.
A large dog run also features 17 airconditioned kennels, however, Ms Jemson-Ledger said council approval was in place to develop more land to provide further accommodation options for dogs.
“It’s a dog breeding facility but there’s another business component to it that they haven’t even begun – and that’s kennelling for people to keep their dogs there when they go on holiday,” she said at time of sale.
“All the council approvals are in place, so there’s real diversity here and different income streams, which also includes being able to offer stabling for horses.”
Plans are in the works to develop more land to provide further accommodation options for dogs.
The property also features an office block with a grooming salon.
The owner’s residence is spacious and full of rustic charm.
The listing was pulled off the market as the owners changed their mind on selling.
Ms Jemson-Ledger said the listing attracted plenty of buyer interest, both from locals and interstate.
“A lot of dog breeders from interstate are wanting to come over here as … to get an 84 dog breed licence from the council and the way they had to set up the property to get it, it wasn’t easy and you really have to play by the rules,” she said.
“Cute Country Cavoodles is now the largest, fully licenced, breeding and kennelling facility registered through the SA Government … and when you’re there, you can see it’s clean, it has good filtration and the dogs have their own little log cabins with airconditioning.
“It’s nice to see that there’s real animal lovers out there and that it’s not just about making money from dogs but making sure that they go to good homes and are looked after.”
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