Just when you think you have heard it all

Had  a lady bring in her cocker x poodle for grooming yesterday, sweet little thing only 13 months old first hair cut.
When the lady came to pick her up i asked her if she knew that her dog was in season, as she was lifting for me everytime i touched her and she was bleeding , quite obvious!
Thats not possible she said cockerpoos don't have seasons!
As you can imagine i was laughing inside!!
Yes they do i said all bitches have them as long as they have not been spade.
No she said , the breeder told me that cockerpoos do not have seasons and that is the main reason for her breeding them from her two pedigree dogs, thats way they are so expensive as you never have to worry about them getting pregnant or have to spay them.
So i asked her how much she paid for the pup , ready !!!!!!!!!!!  £2500 , well i nearly fainted with shock.
I told her to go and see the vet and discuss her options with him and to keep her well away from the males.

She rang me today to tell me that she has seen the vet and he has said the same as me and they will be having her spade, also she rang the breeder , who has denied ever selling the lady a dog and wants nothing to do with it!!

Peanuts

Wow.... £2500 that is really shocking!! i can't believe she didn't question the price, i mean you only have to look in your local paper....and regarding cockerpoos not having seasons................Speechless!

Your right just when you think you've heard it all!! :(

wow what an incredibly stupid woman! the one who conned her should get a medal!(joke)
why oh why dont people do their homework?

OMG and a certain person calls show people and seems t think that these type of breeders are better!!

WHat a mug and sadly if she buys like this deserves what she gets really.

Well,is that the most expensive crossbreed ever! Don't know what to say,I just can't believe that she paid it! She must feel really silly now.

Likewise OMG. I just don't know what to say. There is no hope for some people.

Not wanting to be mean but that breeder must have seen that woman a mile off, £2500 more money than sense I think.

More money than sense indeed. And a lesson learned, I hope. At least she was responsible enough to see the vet. This has got to be one of the weirdest stories I've ever heard.

it's a classic combination: idiot with money meets con artist with cute scam. Not often you hear of it reaching such epic proportions though...does she know that cockerpoos are terribly expensive to groom and cost 10 times as much as normal

>does she know that cockerpoos are terribly expensive to groom and cost 10 times as much as normal

Lol!!

talking of grooming, thats the other thing that annoys me about these oodle dogs. most owners dont realise thay need any grooming at all, let alone bathing and clipping! the ones i see are all scruffy and cant see where they are going!

> Thats not possible she said cockerpoos don't have seasons!

Some people are gullible but this seriously.....??
Hope she feels a fool now after going to the vets and being told the same thing... £2500!!!
Nice of her to actually call you back and update you..She is probably such a lovely naive lady?

it's a classic combination: idiot with money meets con artist with cute scam

The stupidity of some people, there is no hope fro them.

I guess this is why con men, do so well, there is always a gullible fool to be  scammed!!

Hilarious, what a stupid woman falling for that.. sorry sounds mean but that is incredibly stupid.

OMG and a certain person calls show people and seems t think that these type of breeders are better!!

Wonder if she will do a programme on this.

Do you think she believed they are like a true hybrid, like mules which are sterile (not matter the breed dogs are dogs, even wolves x dogs are not true hybrids as same species).

That got me going - I just started writing to Which campaigns that they should do something to educate the general public about buying dogs - or any pets - they do get national press coverage - and people would do more research into buying a new tv then getting a dog - but then I thought that it would be stupid and didn't send it!  We can't stop people doing this - she must have known really that she was wrong to pay this amount - after all I don't know anyone who would think that that was sensible. 

It's all a matter of self esteem or why say what you paid - if someone admires your bathroom you don't tell them what it cost but people with weird and wonderful crossbreeds just can't wait to tell you - sort of Bank account flashing.

Unbeliveable I just hope the owner has the  money and desire to continue caring for her dog as she seems to be atm.
Didnt realise the oodles need special grooming now you have explained Tina why most of the ones I see look and absoult mess. have seen acoupkle that the owners "shear" in the summer. mmm that looks odd to

LOL that's true, most the oodles look more like mongrels than do true mongrels had not thought about it but it will be because their owners do not have them clipped out - would be surprised if they do not suffer skin problems during the summer months as their skin must get very damp and warm idea for fungal infection a sort of athletes foot all over.

Now I really have heard it all!!! Poor silly woman to fall for that one!

As the owner of a breed that looks like the Poodle/Labrador cross I can say no they don't get any skin problems or I know I don't with any of my dogs.

Others are you sure that what you are seeing is one of these crossbreeds and not one of mine when they are clipped right down?

Think I know the difference, could be wrong. Think in the most part the coat is different not that I go up to strange oodles and have a feel but the few I have encountered seem different to the SWD more sort of felted, mind you it could be the SWD are show dogs the oodles are not.

We had a chap who's allotment adjoins our field and he owned what he insisted was a SWD and he said he bought it back from Spain - as far as I was concerned it was a Border Collie cross looked like a black and white collie but very big about Ridgeback size. The dog is now no more and I only hope the couple do not buy a SWD puppy they would be in for a big surprise.

SWD coats felt, I can assure you of that LOL!  Have a felted 2 year old at the moment whose coat needs working hard on before the breed club show in 3 weeks aggghhh.

There is a BIG size range in SWD's and of course you can have some slightly over and some under, so although it may not have been a Spanish there could be a chance it was!

May be because you half expect the SWD coat to curl like the Komondor although all those I have see are clipped in a sort of long lamb clip where as all the oodles I have actually touched the coat is sort of door mat like and very dense with a variety of longer bits here and there - but there is probably no set coat or growth some look like fine boned labs others more like shaggy mongrels.

Much of ones perception is down to the individual dogs you have met and I believe all the SWD are show dogs and most of the others have been at companion shows in the novelty classes. I can see that a neglected SWD could resemble what one would expect to be the result of a poodle cross.

No, felted coats in a SWD doesn't mean that they are neglected.  You can have one in lovely coat one day, the next you wake up and it's gone crazy.  The coat does felt first and you see the cords coming from it, then you have your work cut out.  THough does depend on colours, creams/whites are a lot harder than the blacks.

Must say the few I have handled seem soft and a bit woolly but (and no offence intended) to me it is not the sort of coat you wish to become too involved in. And I can believe that it takes little to turn a groomed coat back to the lived in one, have a fairly intimate knowledge of Newfoundland who although totally different have to my mind a soft coat and one that mats up easily, it seems a quick walk round a field can undo an hours work and why oh why do they squat so low and then stand before they have finished.

Talking about size I have only seen them about the size of my own breeds smaller individuals - are there different sizes or is it because they are still uncommon in the UK so size is flexible as yet.

Between 15 and 21" so big variation between the females and males.

That is so, much bigger difference than we see in ours but they are about the size I thought, must say although I come across members of the Gundog group fairly often that are in the most part a mystery to me but the SWD took my eye because like the Elkhound they are very different to the rest of their group and I often think the Elkhound should have been in the Gundog group as well.

Thanks for the chat but we are going to get told to stick to the subject soon - my fault I am always looking for additional information straight from the owners.

Just chipping in to say I groom a Lagotto whose owners frequently get asked if she is a Labradoodle. Another breed with a curly coat, and yes she gets quite knotted if they don't bring her frequently enough. Lovely girl though - she's white and cream (lemon?) and looks kind of like a giant bichon, but with the most amazing green eyes!