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Amazing to me that you can know this, since my immediate and extended family wouldn't exist in the way it does today without foster care, and adoption from social services. Our old social worker is still a family aquaintance, even though he's not providing any services anymore. A lot of foster...

Ay yi yi, okay, so I am back, just to clear up anything I've all ready said. Shepluvr, I'm speaking only about people who have only done that. I never ever said that all people who adopt animals only adopt. You're looking for offense and arrogance where there is none sorry. DanL, nope not...

Well that didn't exactly work out. I'm most likely finished with this discussion. The facts that I asked for are few and far between, and there are better ways to spend my time than taking one step forward and two steps back in this whole mess. This thing is a headache, and it's not worth it.

Fran27, I'm going to try and be polite. You have no idea what experiences I have had with foster care, with foster children, social services and foster parents. I'll thank you, as someone who doesn't know me from Adam, not to make assumptions about what I know, and what I need to be educated...

The fact that there are so many shelter dogs (pure and mixed) makes me feel quite comforatable believing that the majority of breeders breeding ANY kind of litter aren't doing that. Folks who take responsibility for the dogs they breed (pure or mixed) are the exception to the rule. There are...

Melissa_W, thanks for posting that. I'm very familiar with genetics (no specific knowledge for dogs, but I understand the subject, and evolution well) so I know that such a thing would take quite awhile, and many generations. This was what I wanted to get across to the person who wanted to...

Someone, maybe it was you, made those same points before, and I responded to them in this thread, so I won't type it out again. If people disagree with my points, then okay, but none of us are gaining anything by saying the same stuff in every post. There's no sense in all of us wasting our...

Okay, so how long, in general, does it take to get a mix to breed true? So the Assoc. for the blind abandoned its program. That automatically means that an allergy friendly lab is impossible to create? If you failed to notice, I said that other people have picked up the movement. The seeing...

A responsible breeder wouldn't have assumed that all of her dogs would be great for allergy sufferers. Will they ever breed true? I don't know. If they do, how long will it take? I don't know. Will I be overjoyed if doodles become a breed? No. Will I be sad if it doesn't? No. There will...

Okay, and what's so horrible about people making puggles? This is the thing that I don't get. Why are the breeds we have now, more worthy of being a breed than anything we could create today? It really seems like elitism more than anything else. That would be up to the group who decided...

Yes, because all the breeds that are AKC recognized right now were made by nature, and evolved on their own without any human intervention. Oh, except for the fact that that's the complete opposite of what happened. If you take any breed line back far enough, you're going to run into things...

Well as I'm sure you know, one of the first movements was originally planned so that the blind allergy sufferers could have a guide dog. The curly coated versions are more likely to be good for allergy sufferers than the wavy versions. Allergy sufferers have also had good success with an F1B...

There are tons of purebreds that don't have homes either. A person who places their dogs into the best homes, and will take them back if they lose that home has not added any dogs to the local shelter. The people who did that were the ones that sold their dogs to random people off the street...

Or, maybe they're doing it for the love of that particular mix. Thanks, but I don't have any interest in getting a curly coated retriever. I am open minded, and if anyone can show me proof that damage is being done to either breed, or that there is something wrong with this particular mix...

I considered getting a golden/poodle mix, and I still might after my puppy is a bit older. I don't plan on going to a shelter any time soon, because I want health tests on the parents and health guarantees for the puppy (at a minimum) if I'm getting a dog. I could see getting upset about...

this has been proven false It sounds like your newspaper accidently printed an urban legend. From http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/swiffer.asp

There is also a dander shampoo that you can use. Also, keep Ozzy out of your roomate's bedroom, vacuum regulary, and purchase febreze allergen reducer and use it to spray down the couches, curtains etc.

So you cared so little that you had to log on and let us know how you felt?:D Just joking around. Hopefully no one is stewing over this, and is just going on with their lives and enjoying their puppies.

Yes, it's possible that this is a new allergy. It's also possible that your roomate has always been allergic to dogs, but built up a tolerance for his parents' dog from being around him all the time. There is no way to say how he will be with dogs in the future. He could build up a tolerance...

Okay, I'm not trying to be mean, but why, do you feel the need to brag? This thread isn't about your life story, and who you know, and how you know them and so on. If you're rubbing almost everyone the wrong way, mabye it's not a jealousy issue, but the way you're communicating. If you have...