The Doodle craze

My first experience with a doodle was in high school, mid 2000s. My best friend's family had never had a dog because her younger sister is allergic, but they wanted a dog so they did a trial run with an older puppy.. I think she is/was a labradoodle. Anyways. I walk into the house, and the first thing this psycho dog does is jump up and put a tear in my marching band show shirt. The shirt we buy at the beginning of the school year to wear practically every Friday or at marching competitions. The shirt that is not easy to replace. I was livid. I guess allergies weren't a problem because they kept her. Several years later that same friend gets married and her husband's birthday is coming up so what does she surprise him with? A bernedoodle. I can't remember how much she paid but it was something ridiculous, like thousands of dollars.

I have had many more encounters with doodles over the years. I have a flyball teammate and dear friend with 2 doodles. Her parents also have 2 doodles and the female was terribly shy and skittish, and unfortunately had some sort of contract with the "breeder" that she would have 2 litters of puppies. Nice dog, terrible temperament. The first litter she was bred to a border collie poodle mix. They got to keep one of the puppies, so my teammate ended up getting the puppy. The puppy ended up with a similar temperament as mom, but not as bad.

One thing I don't understand is the appeal. Ok, less shedding.. maybe. But they still end up with this hard to maintain coiled coat that owners don't want to deal with, so they end up spending a lot taking the dog to the groomer multiple times a year. Groomers. hate. doodles. and some won't even take them as clients. Then you ask them what they're looking for in a dog, and they pretty much describe a poodle. Just get a poodle for goodness sakes. It will be much less expensive.

There's also a demand in dog sports world for sports mixes. These are usually border collies mixed with whippets, staffys, or JRTs. There are 2 reasons for doing this. #1 speed and #2 height dogs. Border whippets are generally fast, but can be difficult to train because... they are half sight hound. Border jacks are generally fast and small for height dog purposes, but border collies can be crazy. JRTs can be crazy, and combining the two can result in some dogs that act completely cracked out and are difficult to train and live with. Border staffys... still not sure what the benefits of owning one is. They don't end up especially small, they can be fast, not sure about ease of training. The ones I've seen usually end up with the big blocky staffy head. Now we're at a point where people are going back and cross breeding those mixes either back to purebreds or other mixes. I do not get the appeal of mixy mixes but whatever. There was a time.... that I thought I thought I might like to own a border whippet. But like I said, they can be difficult to train and I don't really care for whippets. The whippets that used to run on my club had pebbles for brains, and I just wasn't impressed. My next dog will most likely be a purebred border collie unless the right border collie mix rescue comes along.
 
Jess041 said:
My first experience with a doodle was in high school, mid 2000s. My best friend's family had never had a dog because her younger sister is allergic, but they wanted a dog so they did a trial run with an older puppy.. I think she is/was a labradoodle. Anyways. I walk into the house, and the first thing this psycho dog does is jump up and put a tear in my marching band show shirt. The shirt we buy at the beginning of the school year to wear practically every Friday or at marching competitions. The shirt that is not easy to replace. I was livid. I guess allergies weren't a problem because they kept her. Several years later that same friend gets married and her husband's birthday is coming up so what does she surprise him with? A bernedoodle. I can't remember how much she paid but it was something ridiculous, like thousands of dollars.

I have had many more encounters with doodles over the years. I have a flyball teammate and dear friend with 2 doodles. Her parents also have 2 doodles and the female was terribly shy and skittish, and unfortunately had some sort of contract with the "breeder" that she would have 2 litters of puppies. Nice dog, terrible temperament. The first litter she was bred to a border collie poodle mix. They got to keep one of the puppies, so my teammate ended up getting the puppy. The puppy ended up with a similar temperament as mom, but not as bad.

One thing I don't understand is the appeal. Ok, less shedding.. maybe. But they still end up with this hard to maintain coiled coat that owners don't want to deal with, so they end up spending a lot taking the dog to the groomer multiple times a year. Groomers. hate. doodles. and some won't even take them as clients. Then you ask them what they're looking for in a dog, and they pretty much describe a poodle. Just get a poodle for goodness sakes. It will be much less expensive.

There's also a demand in dog sports world for sports mixes. These are usually border collies mixed with whippets, staffys, or JRTs. There are 2 reasons for doing this. #1 speed and #2 height dogs. Border whippets are generally fast, but can be difficult to train because... they are half sight hound. Border jacks are generally fast and small for height dog purposes, but border collies can be crazy. JRTs can be crazy, and combining the two can result in some dogs that act completely cracked out and are difficult to train and live with. Border staffys... still not sure what the benefits of owning one is. They don't end up especially small, they can be fast, not sure about ease of training. The ones I've seen usually end up with the big blocky staffy head. Now we're at a point where people are going back and cross breeding those mixes either back to purebreds or other mixes. I do not get the appeal of mixy mixes but whatever. There was a time.... that I thought I thought I might like to own a border whippet. But like I said, they can be difficult to train and I don't really care for whippets. The whippets that used to run on my club had pebbles for brains, and I just wasn't impressed. My next dog will most likely be a purebred border collie unless the right border collie mix rescue comes along.
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great post until the last line...........................:winkgrin::no::rolleyes2::eek2::rolleyes2::uhoh::razz:
 
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