What the heck is a miniature Australion Lapradoodle???

[Jessika]

yeah but do we really need more dogs in our population with thousands of healthy dogs are dying every year??

Well the same arguement could be used against breeding the current breeds, you know??

I don't agree with designer breeds but at the same time that IS how our current breeds all came to be in most cases. Now more "established" designer breeds SUCH AS the Labradoodle have a better chance of becoming a "real" breed but other ones like the Puggle and whatnot are crosses that are only made to feed the public for a certain time span. Once the public is bored with Puggles those "breeders" will move on to a new "designer breed". It's sick but true.

[lv4dogs]

I disagree with the whole designer dog thing, too...but, isn't this how almost all breeds started out? Breeding two different types of dogs for enough years to eventually consistently and predictably get the same puppies with the desired characteristics? It makes sense that if they keep breeding these dogs, that eventually you would be able to breed a labradoodle to a labradoodle and get labradoodles. I just hate the stupid names they make up for them. It's dumbing it down for people so that they know what they're getting. Ugh. I mean, if they're really trying to come up with a new, long lasting breed with future hopes that it will be recognized, why not just come up with a completely new name? Anyway...it's a cycle that will always always be moving...unfortunately.

Thats what I thought too, but at the local shelter I volunteer at they often have little conferences about different subjects. I went to one a couple months ago where they had vets, trainers & breeders speak about designer breeds. I can't remember all the technical things that explained why but apparently they ALL said that a labradoodle can NEVER be breed, not even after thousands & thousands of years. I'll have to ask my trainer next Sat, as he was one of the speakers... see if he knows/remembers exactly why.

[finn's mom]

Thats what I thought too, but at the local shelter I volunteer at they often have little conferences about different subjects. I went to one a couple months ago where they had vets, trainers & breeders speak about designer breeds. I can't remember all the technical things that explained why but apparently they ALL said that a labradoodle can NEVER be breed, not even after thousands & thousands of years. I'll have to ask my trainer next Sat, as he was one of the speakers... see if he knows/remembers exactly why.

I wonder what makes a labradoodle any different from any other "breed." So, they're saying that in order to make labradoodles, you have to have a lab and a poodle? That all of the puppies being bred from those two breeds are incapable of breeding? Hmm...I'd be interested in hearing more about that, definitely.

[lute]

i don't like designer dogs. they are just stupidly priced mixed breeds. alot of them end up in humane societies and don't get adopted. when i worked at a petstore they had a litter of labradoodles ON SALE for $2,000!!! amazingly they all sold quickly!

[Flatcoatluver]

At our shelter we got a litter of lapradoodle's and in a weekend they all got homes