What's wrong with goldenpoodles? I'm genuinely curious because almost all of my dogs are mixed breeds and behave fine. So I'm curious if there's something else I'm missing
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alright, so it goes like this. the doodle really began with a guy in australia being like i need the temperament of a lab for a guide dog but these ppl are allergic to dogs, so i need a poodle bc they have hair, not fur. so he bred em together. years later heâs like damn that was a mistake.
now, why, exactly? alright so first of all he only needed that mix bc labs on average tend to adapt better to situations that are largely exclusive to service dog work than poodles do. i can go into what this means at a later date, but thatâs basically how it is. but either way, people jumped on this creation and it kinda spiraled out of control. soon, poodles were being bred by everyone and every breed. suddenly, they were a marketing scam more then they were a dog breed.
oh theyre hypoallergenic! all of them, all the time cause zero allergies! look theyre so much better than poodles! theyre friendly and easy to train, not like poodles of course, just like labs! theyâre better than labs bc none of them shed, ever! theyâre super healthy bc breeding labs and poodles together wipes out all their health problems, of course!
lies, lies lies. the aussie guy, whose name iâm not going to look up bc iâm lazy but who you can find if you google creator of doodles, straight up says that even the first litter(s) of labradoodles he bred had puppies that the people he bred them for were allergic to. he very carefully tested the litter and the reaction the person had before placing a puppy that was not going to hurt them.
think of the punnet squares we all learned about in 5th grade science class. you draw the squares and one parent has two fur genes and the other parent has two hair genes and what do you get? well if you have four puppies, one might have hairhair and the next one might have hairfur and the next one might have furhair and the next one might have furfur. and so guess what? only hairhair pup is going to be the best choice for allergic people. additionally, you can see why the non-shedding thing can be bullshit, and that in particular is also a guessing game. you may be able to test allergy sufferers against the pups, but that does not necessarily mean they wonât shed. hairfur, for example, may be a good choice for some allergic people, but perhaps theyâve got just enough fur to shed anyway. also, lets look at salukis (and frankly, most long-haired sighthounds). salukis are still considered dogs with fur, not hair. they also still shed, even though itâs just a little. and yet theyâre still considered good for allergy sufferers.
(ps poodles do actually shed. but they shed like humans shed. your hair comes out, doesnât it? like, esp folks with long hair, arenât people always complaining how you clog the shower drain? yeah, like that. ALSO obviously the situation is more complicated then super simple punnet squares and as an ex-groomer i have something to say about doodle coats but iâm going to save that for later, put a pin in it.)
oh and wait a hot minute there. i said best choice, didnât i, not hypoallergenic. well, thatâs because no dog is hypoallergenic. poodles, and a few other dog breeds, they have hair, like we do. but the thing is both humans and breeds with hair still produce the dander, though theyâre different kinds. breeds with hair happen to produce the least amount possible that dogs can produce, which is why theyâre a better choice for allergy sufferers, but thatâs still not a guarantee. my roommate Dakota is allergic to dogs. if i donât wash my dogs for an extended period of time (which has never happened, ever, in my life, idk what ur talking about), thus giving the chance for the dander my dogs still produce, he will have a very, very mild reaction when touching them. it can be countered by him washing his hands after touching them and also me just giving them a fucking bath, i need to stop forgetting, but still, there you go. ALSO people might not be allergic to dogs bc of their dander. they might be allergic to the saliva of dogs, which poodles or any other breed with hair still produces about the same as other dogs. so, yeah, not hypoallergenic, not at all.
the people who taut their hypoallergenic dogs for sale largely donât do the testing required to check if theyâre actually providing a dog to someone who wonât react to it. not acceptable at all.
so, labs are friendly and easy to train right? not at all like poodles, right? no. absolutely incorrect. some labs are friendly and easy to train. some labs, a lot of them when theyâre puppies, are nightmare fuel. personally, i have a theory that everyoneâs vision of labs in their heads are either a) service dogs or b) those old labs who are slightly pudgy (or morbidly obsess, which is a different topic) and who are graying in the face and just want to lounge around because theyâre seniors now. alright, so hereâs why thats bad. labs are a working breed. a retrieving breed. theyâre supposed to be bulky and strong and driven. service dogs are highly trained, to a point that most pet dogs will never see, and if you see them with their actual disabled handler, theyâll probably be around 2.5 yrs of age and out of their most wild days. old labs are well. old. sleepy. maybe a bit achey. and well out of their most wild days. oh, and itâs the same type of thing with goldens by the way, the other most popular doodle type. poodles are also easy to train, especially if their parents have a decent temperament. theyâre all about equal if you actually start training them when theyâre puppies and just pay for some training classes, like everyone should. in the puppy classes iâm in right now, Euphoria is leaps and bounds ahead of doodles, goldens, and labs that are her age or older. I train her properly and sheâs got amazing parents. thatâs it, thatâs the trick. not breed, not necessarily, and def not in this case.
I am once again going to say that labs and goldens are more often used as service dogs than poodles because of their adaptability, but itâs the ability to adapt to situations that most pet dogs will never have to worry about.
jeez this is a long post. iâve still got more to cover too. alright, on to super healthy, or âhybrid vigorâ as the nerds call it. uhh, itâs bullshit. thank u for ur time.
okay, but actually why on gods green earth would breeding two completely different breeds with little to no research make them super healthy? now i want to preface this with iâm (generally) pro-outcross projects. Euphoriaâs dad is half mini poodle and half standard poodle, which isnât technically an outcross bc all the variations are of the same breed, but if weâre going by genetic diversity alone minis and standards are different enough to actually be different breeds.
so, to be clear, outcrosses, given the proper thought and planning: good, results in healthier dogs (see: lua dals). randomly breeding two very different breeds together with no planning other than to sell the puppies to randos who wonât continue the outcross: bad. especially when youâre doing it to cash in and donât health test at all, or donât health test the major health problems with both breeds (if youâre doing an f2 breeding or anything like that). no the poodleâs health problems donât get canceled out by the goldens or labs or whatever the other partyâs health problems are, and vice versa. and yeah, iâve looked at a lot of doodle breederâs websites and yeah, most of them donât health test at all, or at least donât health test properly. do you know i own one doodle and currently live with another? yeah, i got them both from breeders and do you know how much health testing their parents got? if your answer is none, good job, youâve been paying attention. in my defense, i was like 13, i didnât know what i was doing.
alright, so those are the big points. this is kinda gonna be just... a mix of my other complaints. here we go, hope youâre ready for more. argument the first: i feel like itâs pretty disrespectful to reputable breeders. now, i actually have two reasons why that is. reason one: most reputable poodle breeders donât want their breeding stock bred with other breeds, for various reasons. iâve even met a few who used to be okay with it and then as the doodle scam got bigger and more out of control, they stopped being okay with it, even to the breeders who they had been fine with it in the past. that means a lot of doodle breeders out there have their breeding stock because they scammed poodle breeders into giving them pet quality, not breeding quality, dogs or because theyâre getting their stock from non-reputable breeders. i also feel itâs disrespectful to breeders who are actually trying to create new breeds. quite frankly, a breed with the size, strength, and adaptability of a lab or golden that doesnât shed and that has the train-ability of a poodle, lab, or golden sounds pretty interesting to me. did you know you can actually make that breed? and it wouldnât be a cross with unpredictable... well, everything. it would actually be a true dog breed.
Look at Silken Windhounds and Biewer Terriers who began both development in the 1980s. Biewer Terriers were recognized by the AKC this year, and Silken Windhounds still havenât been. And yeah, thatâs the problem isnât it? Making a real new breed takes a lot of time, planning, and care. People would rather just cash in. I think itâs sad and I think itâs disrespectful to the breeders who do work so hard to make actual new breeds.
and finally, unpin being an ex-groomer goddamnit. guess what? doodles are awful to groom! theyâre terrible on the grooming tables because people want to have in both ways: they want a dog that doesnt shed at all and they want a dog who doesnât need to be groomed. well guess what, that dog doesnât exist and you can have it only one way. and also, bring back the goddamn punnet squares because a lot of doodles have awful coats. if you have hairfur and furhair over there, guess what, their coat fucking sucks bc itâs not meant to be like that. it wants to mat bc hair but also it wants the mats to slide out bc short-ish fur but its too thick for the mats to slide out bc thick hair. and yes its more complicated then this and that means its often more awful then this. its awful, it makes me want to cry. and maybe itâs slightly easier to get away with it with a shorthaired dog like a lab, or, you know what, even a golden, okay, even a slightly long haired dog like a golden but people are doodling akitas? border collies? bernese fucking mountain dogs? i am crying. i am crying right now as i type this.
lets do a sum up to this disaster of a post. look, i donât go out there attacking or yelling at every doodle or every doodle owner i see, alright? or any of them really. i might engage in conversation to one thatâs interested, but thatâs it. i love my doodly Isis, okay? shes tiny and sheâs adorable and I love her more than life and i will never, ever get another doodle. i donât like the way theyâve gotten so prolific, i donât like the reasons theyâre now widespread, and i donât like almost all of the people that create them, including the ones iâve literally given my (parents) money to in the past. i wish they were better but i just cannot approve of them, especially not in the environment they exist in now. that said, i do support them in their original use case as assistance dogs, and i do not care about them if theyâre shelter dogs.
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