on tonight ...'Designer Dogs' on Nat Geo Wild sky 528 at 9pm ...............all about oodles and poos. It does sound like its an american prog.
Chris

but we need it on general tv so that Joe Public will take notice :-(

Missed it as I was at work.  Does anyone know if it is going to be repeated?

Emma

I wd. think it will be as it was on a few weeks ago. Quite good as it gave the good and the bad of the crosses.

OH bother I take it is on sky I only have freeview

Must say I thought it was well put together and the breeder shown did seem very committed.  I was expecting horrors so pleasantly surprised

i was a bit shocked when the breeder stated labradoodles were non allergy and non shedding- then she admitted the odd one does shed! at least breeders in this country usualy state that non shedding non allergy cant be guaranteed. i still think they are only in it for the money- if people want non shedding low allergy buy a poodle- or one of the several non moulters available

Lol I love it "the odd one"!  The non-shedding coat is recessive, MOST labradoodles shed.  I can't believe people pass these untruths onto the gullible public.  If people want a cross breed then fair enough, each to his own, but it's the lies that really wind me up.

Granitecitygirl, I appreciate the comment about the fact that MOST labradoodles shed, as they do, however I do need to correct you. The non-shedding coat is not recessive . . . nor is it dominant.  It depends on the circumstances of other genes.

Much like coat color in dogs is not always simple, there are multiple genes involved that have to come into play to allow non-shedding and shedding. The "bearded" gene, which allows for the continuous growth of a coat, only works consistenly when matched with double recessive "long coat" alleles (as opposed to the dominant short coat allele) and is actually dominant in that circumstance. When you breed a short coat dog that sheds - lab - to a long coat dog with a bearded gene - poodle - things get very difficult to predict and there is a variety. 

Now if you breed a single coated "shedding" dog with two "long coat" alleles to a dog with a bearded gene and a single coat, then you can count on all the offspring having a continuous growth coat (non-shedding, hypoallergenic is a whole different ballgame though). An example I can think of is the Cavalier crossed with the Poodle.  Both breeds have already set long coat alleles and single coats, and the bearded gene then works as if it is dominant.  As most breeds have double coats, it is rarely this easy though. 

By the way I am merely a lifetime dog lover who studies human genetics, so naturally this was a branch out. I have a friend who has done a thesis in canine coat color genetics who explained the above information to me, and as well explained that not all the genes at play have been studied well enough yet to understand them completely.