has anyone elses received the email this morning asking if they want to participate in a labradoodle breeding scheme?The mind boggles!!!!

They are so popular down here (south west), a lady in the next village breeds them. also my friend has got a Labrodoodle x field spaniel, who is lovely, bigger than my collies but smaller (all over) than a doodle. a couple of days ago someone brought their Retroodle into the shop to meet me, she was gorgeous,curly /wavy but softer than a labrodoodle!

How can a cross breed between a poodle which has such a large size range, and anything else be 'smaller' than a 'doodle' which is also the result of a cross between a poodle (of any size) and another breed? The parents size plays such a part in size that a standard poodle crossed with anything is going to be larger than a toy poodle cross crossed with the same breed.

All the ones i was refering to were standard crosses! personally i would just have a Standard poodle, but all the crosses ive seen have been lovely!
the doodle i was refering to was a standard cross as i thought that was what we were talking about! didnt mean to confuse!!!!!

Miloos you know u want one really!!!!   ONLY JOKING!!!!!

I know!!why bother having full pedigree labs when you can have labradoodles.The pix she sent me of them were very cute but my girls wouldn't appreciate and poodle loving!!!lol!!

I think J would look really goo walking a labradoodle, just think dogs that look like their owners. (before j had his hair cut)

ha ha!!

Hi miloos
If your girls fancy a red head we go for Vizladors!!!
Oh god perish the thought!twice the trouble!
:) :)

Just think of all the trouble we could save ourselves doing pedigree research, planing matings etc etc.  Just take your in season bitch to a show, or the park, (or anywhere) and in 9 weeks get some sort of "oodle" "ocker" "labrawhotsit" etc etc:)
bye
Gwen

;) teehee

i recieved one today asking the same thing and a photo
must admit they look well sweet quite fancied one myself actualy
but?
they have a better perm than me
cant have that lol
seriously if they help the children like they say they would where would the harm be to help this cause ?

<<if they help the children like they say>>
With a crossbreed there are no guarantees which genes they are going to inherit.

I could breed Elkadobes, and the parents would even be health tested.  My cha bitch has had a thing for my freinds dog for a while now :D :D :D

God I wonder what an Elkkhound cross doberman would look like, the mind boggles!!!!

So what should I call my cross - American Puggers?  Cant even begin to imagine the ears!
bye
Gwen

what about an American Rottocker Spaniel!!!!!!!!!!! OMG :O
Lea :)

A dallador could be a winner! Sheds hair everywhere and won't retrieve a thing!
:D

As my Border T boy fancies my friends Rott bitch in a big way, maybe I could breed Rottenborders.

LOL LOL LOL.

Well, Lewis the Pug has really got into this stud dog thing with gusto - so what do you think would sell best Puchshunds or Schnugs - trying to think of breeds he can each without help!  Or how about finding an ETT for him - that way I might get English Toy Putweilers! (think about it;))
bye
Gwen

Oh no with a Min pin.  Must say they are the only cross I saw pictures of that really appealed, really like a mini Rottie.

Well Gypsy (8 yr old labrador :D) and Thor (Aussie who hasn't been hipscored 'cos he had to have his hip pinned 2 weeks before  he was due to be hip-scored :(  )  will be only too pleased to participate in this breeding schedule - although they are arguing over whether the babies will be called Austradors or Labraussies :D :D :D :D

They are so in Lurve at the moment - Thor sang to her throughout most of last night - and she called her appreciation.......

All the others just moaned that their sleep was being disturbed !

It's a good job our neighbours live a long way off!

(I suppose Thor will want to play piggyback with Beau again today!!)

Margot

I too like Min pins :) If I had a bitch I could have a mini Dane?

Rottenborders?  Hmm think I've got one of those already :D  Well the back end of him is anyway.  Must stop changing his food  (or wear a gas mask) :D

CG

Some of my girls could be Dalladors then :rolleyes: I did wonder :)

I think vizladors will be brill kate but we'll have to set our own registration club up to make it official like the labradoodle one!!

Barbara, ive always wondered what a elkie x collie would look like, briony was never very taken with the idea though!!!!!

but would it be an elkilly or a collelk??

Margot

Elkollie?

two of my cavaliers & a border terrier bitch are definitely in a romantic triangle Now how about borderaliers ???????(BT is spayed :D)

My friend has a jack russel X cocker, sort of looks like a wire haired beagle!!!!!

Well 2 of my Elkie boys are besotted by a BGVG, think the result would be cute, but wonder how you would be able to live with it :D

I once had a jack russell/border collie cross (honest).  She was sooo cute, just a mini border collie with all its traits.  What would you call that apart from odd lol.

CG

I wonder what the fascination is with the labradoodle ? A girl at work was telling me this morning that her friend is seriously considering breeding them :(  Why ?

Daisy

Because they're the latest trend :( . Fashions come and fashions go. The shysters will make a few bob and move on.

Don't think that this lady is doing it for the money. She has had poodles and seems genuinely interested in the 'breed'.

Daisy

but Labradoodles are not a recognized breed. They're a cross-breed

liberty

There are other breeds that have the coat and character that they are supposedly after so why start again, when they are not really sure which side the pups will take after??  Having a wool coat does not mean that it will help with allergies as it's not the coat that most people are allergic to it's the dander.

Yes I know that :) But why do some people think that this particular cross is good ? Most (if not all) breeds have come about because people have thought that combining two or more other breeds would give certain advantages - so why this particular cross ?

Daisy

and a point made several times before is that with a cross breed its not definate thet they won't shed..they could moult like a lab!!..depends on which genes they inherit from which parent.As said,there are breeds which don't shed hair and so I find this a  poor excuse for breeding them
Archer

I think that this woman wants them for agility ? Nothing to do with them not shedding

Daisy

can't see the reason on that either sorry.There are many breeds of all shapes and sizes that are excellent at agility....why would anyone think that  a mongrel bred from 2 breeds that are not agility 'superstars' would male a good agility dog??
Archer

No idea either  :) I'll try to find out more next week - just intrigues me :)

Daisy

Labradoodle litter conatin puppies of two types The labrador type & the poodle type they are never uniform & why mate two breeds with a common disease HC as well as HD & of course the poodles have SA really healthy breeding plans

What about the people that do test for Hd and sebascious adonitis? I have never posted on this subject before but one of the ladys in question is a very dear friend of mine and she hip scores and eye tests her Lab and incidentally this bitch is from top Lab lines, of which the original breeder is completely aware that she is bred to a poodle. I myself would love a Labrador bred from her and do consider her breeding 'wasted' to a poodle and I am sure that other Labrador people would also be proud to own her.

Someone put a link up to ukdoodles and I have e-mailled twice about whether they test etc and how they intend to 'progress' the 'breed' here in the UK and I have not recieved a reply!!

Jesse

Hi Jesse, they do all the right tests for Labs, they didn't mention SA in poodles tho. The thing that concerned me wast that they  'de-sex' (their words) the 'puppies'  Apparently their vets are very experienced at this process. IMO dogs need to mature.

Lets face it folks, the only reason people breed labradoodles or any other cross, it for money because there is a demand, fuelled by irresponsible people telling down right lies about the results.

Thanks for saying it Jackie. I was going to stay out of this post but as you have said it I must say that I agree with you 100%

Best wishes, John

;) John

I wonder if that applies to the Queen and her Dorgi's!!

Jesse