Frenchie Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Saw this on another forum, thought it was pretty intresting: (DOGS) The Labradoodle, a mix between a labrador and a standard poodle, was originally bred for a woman who needed a non-allergenic guide dog. Now, the man responsible for the breed’s creation says he regrets creating a new breed – and all of the problems that came along with it. If Wally Conron had known what was going to become of the labradoodle, he wouldn’t have bred the dog in the first place. It was 22 years ago and Conron, now 81, was working as the breeding manager for the Royal Guide Dog Association of Australia when his boss set him a tough task. A blind woman from Hawaii had written asking if they could provide a guide dog that would not shed hair, because her husband was allergic to it. â€I said, ‘Oh yes, this will be a piece of cake. The standard poodle is a working dog, it doesn’t shed hair, it’ll be great.’ I tried 33 in the course of three years and they all failed. They just didn’t make a guide dog.†Conron decided there was one possibility left: take his best labrador bitch and mate it with a standard poodle. They created three cross-breed puppies that needed to be boarded out to be trained and socialised but nobody would take them; everyone wanted a pure-bred. And that’s when Conron came up with the name labradoodle. â€I went to our PR team and said, ‘Go to the press and tell them we’ve invented a new dog, the labradoodle.’ It was a gimmick and it went worldwide. No one wanted a cross-breed but the following day we had hundreds of calls from people wanting these master dogs.â€The labradoodle proved to be a brilliant dog for the blind and the woman in Hawaii was happy. So what was the problem? It’s how the dog has been used and abused and sold under false pretences, Conron says. â€When the pups were five months old, we sent clippings and saliva to Hawaii to be tested with this woman’s husband. Of the three pups, he was not allergic to one of them. In the next litter I had, there were 10 pups but only three had non-allergenic coats. Now, people are breeding these dogs and selling them as non-allergenic and they’re not even testing them. â€All these backyard breeders have jumped on the bandwagon and they’re crossing any kind of dog with a poodle. They’re selling them for more than a pure-bred is worth and they’re not going into the backgrounds of the parents of the dogs. There are so many poodle crosses having fits, problems with their eyes, hips and elbows; a lot have epilepsy. There are a few ethical breeders but very, very few.†Conron says that despite the fact the dogs have helped so many blind people, he regrets creating the first cross-breed. â€I released a Frankenstein. … People say ‘aren’t you proud of yourself?’ and I say, ‘not in the slightest. I’ve done so much harm to pure breeding. Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applebear Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Pity he can't undo all the millions of dogs that end up in shelters from bybs creating new 'designer breed' dogs, along with his new fad of the labadoodles. Labadoodles started it all, but buyers need to wake up as well. If it wasn't for them, bybs wouldn't be laughing all the way to the bank because some sucker just gave them 5-800 bucks for a mix [i hear "pomskys" are going for 2k]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted July 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Pity he can't undo all the millions of dogs that end up in shelters from bybs creating new 'designer breed' dogs, along with his new fad of the labadoodles. Labadoodles started it all, but buyers need to wake up as well. If it wasn't for them, bybs wouldn't be laughing all the way to the bank because some sucker just gave them 5-800 bucks for a mix [i hear "pomskys" are going for 2k]. Yepp exactly! Cockapoo, labradoodle, puggle, huskador etc... No I just call them crossbreeds. Recently at a CDC show a lady threw a tantrum because the organisers and judge refused to enter her labradoodle in a Pedigree class, they had to explain that her dog was infact a crossbreed, one parent was a labrador and the other a poodle, it is not a KC registered breed so they could not enter it in a pedigree class. I was also asked by a couple with a labrador if I could breed Mishka with their boy, I wouldn't even breed Mishka with a husky, let alone a labrador.. I had a quick look online after reading this, labradoodles are going for around £650 (About 1000 US $) its absolutely ridiculous And what mix is a pomsky? Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2 Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applebear Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Yepp exactly! Cockapoo, labradoodle, puggle, huskador etc... No I just call them crossbreeds. Recently at a CDC show a lady threw a tantrum because the organisers and judge refused to enter her labradoodle in a Pedigree class, they had to explain that her dog was infact a crossbreed, one parent was a labrador and the other a poodle, it is not a KC registered breed so they could not enter it in a pedigree class. I was also asked by a couple with a labrador if I could breed Mishka with their boy, I wouldn't even breed Mishka with a husky, let alone a labrador.. I had a quick look online after reading this, labradoodles are going for around £650 (About 1000 US $) its absolutely ridiculous And what mix is a pomsky? Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2 Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2 A "pomsky" is a pomeranian bred with a husky [google it, sure it'll pop something up]...I just had one run into my yard a couple weeks back, they look like toy breed version of a husky. Sigh. I don't know who I want to slap more...the greedy byb or the ignorant buyer. I have two mutts, but I'll shoot myself in the foot before I call them some cutesy name. My mom has some siblings to my yorkie/pom and she'll tell people hers are "yorkaranians." She gets so mad at me when I go, "No, they are just mutts, yorkie/pom mix." lol I'm horrible but people need to wake up and take a peek in our shelters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Angel n Auroras Mum Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 my storm is a husky x gsd. not a siberian shepherd or a german husky pmsl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goingsolo Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 Charlie is pure mix lol, we got him from dogs trust who also had mom (caveliar) previous owner said dad was corgixterrier. which terrier I don't know or care. There is also a myth that cross breeds lessen the risk of genetic conditions when actually the opposite can be true, depends how healthy the parents were. We have a problem with Charlie with his front legs, the ulner stopped growing to early causing the fibia (think got that right) to bend. This resulted in deformity, he had an operation on the worst effected leg that was horrendous (a lump of bone removed) and had 12 weeks basically permanently crated, only allowed out for toilet (hence don't crate now) we decided not to put him through it with the other leg, the vet not only agreed but told us he wouldn't do it before we said anything. Sorry just realised I rambled off topic but I agree that people go for designer dogs without thought. The care on human genetics should reach further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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