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All of my breeding dogs are registered, health screened and are good representatives of their own pure breeds. I detest the term “designer dogs” and consider my pups hybrids.

Bred responsibly, these are wonderful dogs with amazing intelligence; loving, people pleasing personalities and great temperaments. I don’t care if they never become a recognized breed, because I’ve seen what’s happened to other recognized breeds as far as health problems from breeding for looks rather than function, etc.

My pups have quite predictable traits both in appearance and personality. I am however very choosy when picking my breeding dogs so that I can know what I’m producing. I believe that a large part of the confusion when comparing Labradoodles comes as mentioned from the variation of the size of poodles used to the type of lab used and the generation of cross a breeder is doing. Obviously a pup from a purebred English lab and a purebred standard poodle is going to be quite different from a second generation labradoodle that has toy poodle and field lab in it and was bred back to a toy poodle. It’s like comparing apples and oranges. While both might be perfectly wonderful dogs, you certainly can’t expect them to be the same.

To truly compare and judge takes a lot more knowledge than most who are dissing these dogs have. Until you’ve studied genetics and really experienced these hybrid dogs, you can’t possibly know what they’re all about.

Thank you for a fair and balanced article on Labradoodles. I see too few of these by people who simply haven’t done their research.

i miss my own one