Creator of Labradoodle regrets starting designer dog craze
- Thread starter Miakoda
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I don't think he has any reason to apologize. He bred a litter for a good reason and it's not his fault people are silly and only want purebreds. Hindsight is 20/20 and obviously if he'd known what would result he never would have coined the term "Labradoodle".
Also, how for the people that the gimmick actually worked on... how does a ridiculous name make the dog a purebred? Mix breeds are great, but they are not purebreds. It always drove me nuts as a student when people came in with a "Labradoodle" and wrote that in the spot for "Breed". I remember once I asked someone if their puppy was a "Golden cross Poodle or a Labrador cross Poodle". He informed me that the dog was a purebred "Labradoodle". Being a little less tactful at 16 I asked "So his mom was a Lab and his dad was a poodle?" To which he answered in the affirmative. I then wrote in the breed spot of the paperwork "Labrador X Poodle" to which he got very upset.
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Also, how for the people that the gimmick actually worked on... how does a ridiculous name make the dog a purebred? Mix breeds are great, but they are not purebreds. It always drove me nuts as a student when people came in with a "Labradoodle" and wrote that in the spot for "Breed". I remember once I asked someone if their puppy was a "Golden cross Poodle or a Labrador cross Poodle". He informed me that the dog was a purebred "Labradoodle". Being a little less tactful at 16 I asked "So his mom was a Lab and his dad was a poodle?" To which he answered in the affirmative. I then wrote in the breed spot of the paperwork "Labrador X Poodle" to which he got very upset.
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The entire craze was a completely unforeseen chain of events and I think it's extremely unfair to consider him responsible for all of it. I mean, this list of "designer dogs:"
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/hybriddogs.htm
I really suck at estimations, but there are definitely well over a hundred different crosses there. That didn't happen just because some guy bred a lab and a poodle.
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/hybriddogs.htm
I really suck at estimations, but there are definitely well over a hundred different crosses there. That didn't happen just because some guy bred a lab and a poodle.