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the
shelter says hes 4 years old.... but the thing is...I called about him and they
said he's very skinny. He sure doesnt look skinny to
me!!!!!!!
i would say yes it is , if you go to our photo
album and look at my rupert bear you will see this one is very like him
and as he would have looked as a 3 month puppy, how do you know it is an
adult ? it is difficult to decide from the picture i can only guess that he
might be about 24-26 inches high if he is an adult dog and the paws will
tell you he is going to be a big boy assuming of course it is male <G>,
my first Rupert bear was killed in a tragic accident 2 months ago he was 21
months old he stood at 31 inches and looked very much like him to, sadly
i have no photos of him as an adult to show you, he was the delight of my
life, very active but so so beautiful, i do hope you are able to have
him
milly*
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:57
AM
Subject: [labradoodles] is this a
labradoodle?
i
found this dog in our local shelter...we have been looking for an adult
doodle for awhile now, as we want to bypass the puppy stage..what do you all
think? Is it a doodle? The shelter classified him as a poodle mix......![]()
Where do you live in Arkansas? Cynthia Hoskison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
This is our story. We got Phoebe, a yellow lab from a very good
breeder and planned on breeding her and raising labs here in
Northern California where the hunters are very prolific and will
spend good money on a good dog. Well, we then decided to move
to
Arkansas, where the labs go for $75 and there are 20 litters in
the
paper.
I don't know when I first heard about
Labradoodles, but I was soon
convinced to breed them instead.
I search the entire West Coast for
a black boy! (I think white,
cream or apricot boys look like girls,
so I only wanted
black). I have never even been around a Standard
Poodle or
owned a unneutered male dog, so this is going to be quite
an
adventure.
When we first got Joe, he was the cutest puppy
I have ever seen.
And as he grew and grew! I kept wondering
why everyone didn't have
one. Joe is only 5 months old now and
he already as tall as Phoebe!
(And she is huge! - I think we are
going to end up with
GiantLabradoodles!) He is so tall
and with the longest legs! Up
until last week, he hadn't been
groomed and still had his puppy
hair. He looked like a little
black bear - my favorite wild
animal! All I did was keep the
hair on his face trimmed with
scissors so he could see. Well I
took him to get groomed last week
and explained to the lady that I
didn't want him to look funny, just
give him a trim. I used to
get upset that I spent $1200 on a dog
and everybody asked me what he
was. Not anymore! He totally looks
like a poodle.
She really shaved him and his face is completely
bald. My sons
keep saying he "looks like a real poodle now" and "he
has a really
long beak". I thought poodles had really long, skinny
muzzles,
but Joe didn't. His looked normal. Until he was
groomed!
I am amazed by his hair. I combed him with
a people comb a while
ago and if I bunched up all the hair in a
little wad, it would not
have been the size of a pea. And you
can totally pet him any which
way, because his hair grows straight
up.
As a future breeder I do have a few questions - I have
never even
seen a Labradoodle and most people I tell them about just
laugh,
like I made it up. Do they get their tails docked at
birth? Does
anyone have a problem selling their litters.
How do you market an
expensive "mutt"? I know there is a big
Labradoodle guide dog
frenzy going on now, is it possible to sell
the puppies to guide dog
schools? I'm scared that I have a
$2000 breeding pair and won't be
able to sell my dogs in rural
Arkansas. I know a Lab/Poodle cross
makes a Labradoodle
and I am sure two Labradoodles make a
Labradoodle, but is one better
than the other. Should I be looking
to get a breeding pair of
Labradoodles? I did ask these questions
to some breeders I
found on the internet, but they didn't respond
and one even told me
not to breed them for fear of
competition.
Cynthia
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