Posted on 05/03/2010 7:32:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono
THE man who bred the first labradoodle - and in the process made the mutt a desirable accessory - says it's the great regret of his life. The coveted accessory has pushed out other breeds in terms of desirability.
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Just make sure you get them their own couch ;D!
Non-shedding is a fantastic feature in a house dog. Our Bichon-Cocker has been a great dog.
OH, she’d still want to sit on ours! She’s very emotionally needy.
That is not even remotely true.
“Mutts” are not a genetically “better product”.
http://www.westwinddogtraining.com/hybridvigor.pdf
FYI, *most* puppy mills specialize in breeding “designer dogs” such as Puggles and Cockapoos, for example.
If your logic holds, then it’s the puppy millers who are benefiting from the larger profits.
“Cross breeds” *far* outnumber purebreds in dog pounds.
Every AKC breed has at ~least~ one organization dedicated to rescuing their dogs from shelters.
Mutts don’t have that luxury.
That's how a free market works. Those who are selling a product that consumers want make more money. If "puppy millers" are breaking the law in some way, then obviously they should be prosecuted, but pets are a consumer product subject to the fads of buyers, and there are obviously going to be fluctuations in the demand for different types.
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Thank you for nailing the real, long term [stealth] plan right on the head.
My wife has a first generation labradoodle - lab father and poodle mother. It isn't till you mate the lab and the labradoodle that you get the curly hair like in your picture. Her dog has straight hair and a scruffy beard. But a really sweet tempered animal.
Btw, the article you’ve posted is informative, in its way, but does not remotely “prove” that a poodle or a lab is objectively “genetically better” than a mix of the two. Nor does it in the slightest address the issue of what is subjectively better from an owner’s perspective.
We have a delightful Pembroke Welsh Corgi and a Roomba, that vacuums twice a day, and still doesn't keep up.
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Yes, it's true. The favorite quote from Wayne Pacelle, the animal-hating president of the Humane Society of the US, is "One generation and out." He believes there is no reason for domesticated animals and he wants to eliminate them.
Contributions to HSUS do NOT benefit your struggling local animal shelter or humane society. They go to the $100m-per-year budget of the HSUS for salaries, pensions, and anti-animal lobbying.
DON'T GIVE TO HSUS!
We were sort of naive when we got ours and it turns out he DID come from a puppy mill. But we lucked out, he’s 12 now and been very healthy.
Yes. The problem, as I understand it, is that you can't (yet) take two Labradoodles, breed them to eachother, and get the same desireable traits. The only way that they've been able to keep getting the desired results so far is to keep crossing a Lab with a Standard Poodle.
It takes many generations to generate as stable set of physical & behavioral traits. I don't think that our society is patient enough to wait for a stable breeding pool to be built.
I'm not sure why the originator didn't just train Standard Poodles for the task if allergies were the problem. A properly selected Standard would have succeeded as an aid dog.
“but pets are a consumer product subject to the fads of buyers, and there are obviously going to be fluctuations in the demand for different types.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLnm3qpp8CM
The vast majority of AKC breeders are more concerned with improving their breed rather than making money.
When all the proper and necessary care, feeding, vaccinations, vet visits and health tests are completed on a litter, so much money has been spent that the breeder usually makes very little profit.
The worst thing that can happen to *any* breed is to become “popular”.
That’s when the disreputables will buy a breeding pair and start their own backyard breeding program.
If the breed remains popular long enough, they may even become a mini-puppy mill, churning out “purebreds for profit”.
They may not be “breaking the law” *technically*, in that they may meet their state’s particular “humane treatment requirements”, if only just barely but they are morally reprehensible.
I have a border collie Aussie mix. Nice dog.
Cats too,
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