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It's the new thing for yuppies. Cross 2 mutts and hyphenate the name and the nitwits will throw money at you. Amazing. No reputable breeder would allow their dogs to be used in these cashgrabs so you pay your money and hopefully you don't end up with frankenstein's dog. My daughter's coach has a Labradoodle. The thing is allergic to damn near the entire world around it.
And that is why a reputable doesn't like to give breeding rights to just anyone. I would think most of the breeding dogs used are unregistered . Most of the reputable breeders i know do not give breeding rights.
Cross breeding wouldn't reflect at all on the genetic soundness of a dog if it was in fact a registered purebred dog. I doubt any of these dogs are papered.
Sorry Terry I meant to say purebred registered dogs used in the x are probably not from a reputable breeder. More than likely acquired unregistered.Quote:
Originally Posted by terrym
I think it's just further evidence that there is a growing segment of dog owners don't care about their dogs being be a 'pure' breed and less worried that it's not registered.
I goes hand in hand with the continued decline in membership and registration with the AKC. It's also evident with the continuing problems the AKC is having to fill breed categories at the sanctioned dog shows etc. This growing demand for cross breed designer dogs seems to have taken a hold and is growing.
The article above just proves that if people have a preference, they are willing to pay for it. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, nice to see the choice is there to get a dog you want.
The old caveat 'let the buyer beware' is still applicable in both cases, because there are still risks that your pure breed dog will encounter health issues, being registered is no guarantee either...you just usually know up front the problems you can anticipate having when you buy it.
I the case of the Labradoodles they are registered with the Australian Labradoodle Association (ALA)...who are in the process of getting this dog registered as a pure breed.Quote:
Originally Posted by terrym
http://www.laa.org.au/Quote:
The vision of the ALA is to protect
and nurture the Australian Labradoodle throughout Australia and the world for successive generations.
To work with the Australian
National Kennel Club (ANKC) towards the goal of the full recognition of the labradoodle as a pure breed.
You can register with the Continental Kennel Club as well with newly developed breeds or breeds that the Canadian Kennel Club do not recognize..
The problem with labradoodles is that anyone who breeds a lab to a poodle can claim to have bred a labradoodle. And that isn't the dog the Australian breed club is going to get recognized. Recognition is going to come for labradoodles bred to labradoodles for generations, until they breed true to type. You don't have a breed until it breeds true to type ... that's really the definition of "breed."
How many of the people selling labradoodles are breeding labradoodle to labradoodle, generation after generation?
As stated in the article, her labradoodles are 4th generation and come from the original Australian bloodlines...Quote:
Originally Posted by welsh
more about her:
http://www.prairiedoodles.ca/about_prairie_doddles.php
Here damn from
http://manorlakelabradoodles.com/
her stud from
http://www.labradoodle.biz/
So these $2500 pups have some lineage too them....
If a labradodle cost so much is because people like them, no science here. And if people like them is because they are all around good dogs. Personnaly, I don't like them but I know a few people that own one and they have absolutely no issue. Most of them are he same way or not too many people would own one.
I see more health or care issue with pure breed than mutt, I think mutts are more robust.