Hi Abigal! I give you SO much credit for taking care of and rescuing dogs. I went to your site and my heart just broke for all the dogs that need to be rescued. I am also happy that you have fell in love with your new doods.
I was so surprised that you didn't like labs! My experience with labs (we have a 12 year old female lab, my sister-in-law has a male lab) is that they are SO sweet and gentle! But then again, you have probably been around more dogs than me. I think it's very funny that people get sensitive about calling doodles anything other than what they are, labradoodles, goldendoodles, etc. If you look further down I put a post about a funny experience I had last night, a lady was very snobby to me about my dog. In my case, I really wasn't looking for a "designer" dog, but a dog that my son and I were not allergic to. When my hubby and I met, he had the aforementioned lab, (her name is "Needles" - named after the Space Needle in Seattle - long story), I put up with the allergies, but when we had our son, he had allergies and developed asthma, so Needles went to live with Grandma 5 doors down from us, but still goes to work with my husband every day and we still see her every day. When I originally heard about labradoodles - I was looking for a dog that may be good for allergies and found out that they were originally bred in Australia to be guide dogs for people with allergies. I did many months of research and luckily found a wonderful family who just started raising labradoodles in their home (www.lakeviewdoodles.com) about an hour and a half from us. We brought the dog home (an F1B labradoodle - Mom was already a first generation labradoodle, then mated with a poodle - so he's 75% poodle). Generally speaking, first cross labs do have a chance of shedding (even light) and may even have dander. For us, we had to go with an F1B or a "multigen" doodle. It is really was nice to find a dog that had the great qualities of a poodle as well as a lab, so we are very happy. More importantly, our son's allergies haven't acted up, and we have taken him to his asthma specialist twice in the last month to be tested, and all is well with him, and me. We knew within the first day if we would have a problem, and as of yet, we have had absolutely NO problems with allergies. We are so happy! If you think about it, alot of "breeds" now were once crosses at some point back in time, the Boston Terrier being a good example. Anyways, welcome to the board, and I really give you so much credit for all you do. I love animals but would really have a hard time seeing them being abused! Christa --- In [email protected], Abigail Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, I have been lurking for a few weeks and decided that I have a second to introduce myself, so I will!!! > My name is Abbie and I am in southern mid Michigan, I have been rescuing dogs for about 12 years, fostering and volunteering at various rescues and shelters for about 10 years. For the past 18 years I have had nothing but herding dogs and have a huge love for them. Two years ago my friend and I rescued a toy poodle whom I fell madly in love with, my lap is rarely cold since Elwood arrived. Since then, I have joined an all breed rescue, I still mainly foster herding dogs but have a hard time turning down any kind of poodle or poodle mix. About a year ago I started to hear people talking about "doodle" dogs and thought that they were nuts. I can't stand labs and have never liked anything with lab in it. Enter doodle dogs.... About 3 weeks ago our rescue took in a litter of 5, 8 month old labradoodles from a puppymill in MO, who couldn't sell them. They had been neglected and lived in a cage all together with no human contact for all 8 months of their lives. Since I love poodles so > much, I decided that I would foster one and see what the hub bub was about. Well, I picked up Gucci on sunday and by tuesday I was so in love that I called the other foster and offered to take another one. I have already told Gucci that unless God himself puts in an application, she isn't going anywhere. I know that we have had some really crazy, out of control doodles come in, but holy moly, these two are awesome. They are still VERY nervous of new people, but we are slowly getting over it and it is helpful that they have really great temperaments. They are doing very well on potty training, which is usually not easy with puppy mill dogs who have used a cage as a potty forever, we haven't had a potty accident in a crate since the first few days. They are teenagers through and through and keeping two sets of doodle teenager teeth off of the non doggy stuff in the house has been a challenge, but these two are so sweet and so much fun to watch. I keep saying that I should have named > one of them Prozac because I can watch them play and snuggle up to me and no matter how bad my day was, they always put a smile on my face. > My biggest fear with these guys is the fact that we live close to an area where people have to have the latest fashion item and it seems that doodle dogs are it. I have to be very careful in making sure that they find homes who won't be done with the fad in a year. Are there any other doodle rescuers on here? I haven't noticed a lot of them on petfinder.com but I know that these two are very high energy and very smart on top of it. Any time I have fosters like this I tell people that I am certain that if I didn't give them a lot of exercise and play time and crate them when I am gone, I would certainly come home to a pile of sawdust with two triumphant, smiling doodle dogs sitting on top of it!!! > I will be having thier pics taken on sunday for the web. Gucci is an 8 month old black 26 pound doodle and Estee and is an 8 month old black 35 pound doodle. We also have two, around 40 pound, black males and a 40 ish pound chocolate male. If anyone knows of somebody wonderful for these doggies, please let me know. We will do reference checks, vet checks and home visits. Our adoption fee is $150 and they are spayed and up to date on shots and wormed. > You can see all of our available dogs at www.apbpets.com if somebody is wanting to put in an application PLEASE do NOT put labradoodle on the app as we have a few poodle people who are VERY crabby about people giving a mixed breed a name other than mixed breed. They are officially poodle/ lab mixes for us or poodle mixes. Just wanted to give a heads up so that I don't have to hear people being crabby about this. Personally, I think we should breed them to a cocker/ doberman mix so that we can have cock-a-doodle-do's. (yes, I am very much kidding!!!) > Ok, I will shut up now. > Nice to meet you all, > Abbie > > > Abigail S. Morrison > > Unseen they suffer, unheard they cry, in agony they linger, in lonliness they die. > Save a life, spay or neuter your companion animals! > > > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/labradoodles/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
