Labradoodles?

Moe

Moe

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What are your thoughts on these...hmmm mutts? Not as a sporting or hound breed obviously. My question relates more to your opinions on how these "dog breeders" simply grab a lab and a poodle creating a flat out mutt and charge people an arm and a leg to buy one of these things /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif. I really don't understand the whole ordeal. Anyways, I just figured I would see what you guys thought about this as well.
 
Had a standard white poodle and german shepard,teamed up they was purdy good deer dogs,shepard spotted an lead,poodle followed an did the barking
 
Like most people I've had afew mutts over the years.

Some were good dogs and some were great dogs. I've worled woth dogs my whole life and have seen very few that weren't "good" dogs. I have on the other hand unfortunately seen many Bad handlers/owners/ who had no clue and would never have a clue about dogs. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gifBut I digress. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Inspite of the rhetoric about mutts that have saved the family from a burning house and was "the best dang huntin' dog I ever saw" Truth is it's a "Forest Gump." Pick one and you never know what you are getting. They may look like one or the other parent or nothing like them. You have no idea about temperament, size, or teachability.
This doesn't mean these dogs have no value. It depends a great deal on it's training and teaching.

The advantage of buying purebred[ registered] is that you start the process with a more realistic and acccurate expectation of the finished product. This is not a guarantee that if the beagle you buy is registered, that he can even find his food dish unasssisted. It simply means that he should be bred true to the characteristics normally found in the breed.

As far as charging big bucks, I've raised a few litters of purebred dogs over the years. If a person is breding responsibly and having the proper tests done for eyes and hips, etc. and sends the puppy out the door with proper immunizations and wormed, at $600 per pup he woon't make much money.

Mixed breeds at high prices, I fault the people that will pay it.
 
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Mixed breeds at high prices, I fault the people that will pay it.



I couldn't agree more.
It's called CAPITALISM. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

That said, I would question the purchaser's mental capacity whom spent big bucks on a "Labradoodle". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
I've never had dogs as anything other than pets and almost all of them were mutts (and good dogs).

That said, if I were going to get a hunting dog, I would get a pure bred and probably would spend lots of money. I'd want a dog bred true from successful hunting stock, not a "hunting breed" that comes from a long lineage of show dogs. The differences (mainly intelligence) I've observed between "hunting" and "show" in the same breed (Irish Setters) is amazing.

I could be wrong having never owned one, but my understanding is that good hunting lines don't come cheap.
 
Hello,

I bought a mix dog and he's been a great buddy, but worthless for anything other than a good laugh. We decided to breed him with our boxer female for grins and giggles.
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75% boxer and 25%english bulldog.

This is the fourth, and last, batch we had. We got $400 a pup and they were all sold before they were born. Built similar to a bulldog without the major health problems of a bulldog, but athletic like a boxer. I still think their ugly as sin, but nothing better around kids.
 
The original cross of Lab to Standard poodle was done to create a hypoallegenic service dog for the blind. As both breeds are/were water retrievers they have similer characteristics. Large and extremely TRAINABLE. They will do what they are taught over and over and over again. Just what you want in a service dog, they don't get "bored" and do variations of what they were taught. As for people paying big bucks for them as pets, well.... Most of the ones I have seen for sale were from well bred purebreds with all the hip and eye clearances and that doesn't come cheap. But have you ever seen one? I think the adults are ugly. But that is just my opinion.
 
The Labradoodle was a way of breeding a dog that was spesific for Service/Guide work with handicaped people.
I have been useing purebread Labs as my guide dogs for seven years now my forst one was sort of old when i got him but became my best friend really fast when he passed it was one of the wordt days of my life, but ten months later i was rewady to get another dog and I got a nothe rpurebred Lab a female this time she is as well trained as my first dog but a bit more hard headed. I am told the Labradoddle is more tractible than the Lab and sheds a lot less, but still has the positive traits of the Lab.
I had a lot of mutts when I was sighted and when I decided to get a guide dog I wanted a Shperd but I found that they are not used as much for guide work as they used to be due to some perceved aggessive tendancies to bad I have always been fond of the Sheperads but I am comeing to really love the Labs too. I just do not think I could feel good with a poodle or even a poodle crossbread
 


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