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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]tell me about your doodle! I am looking for a dog (young or puppy) and I am curious about doodles. They seem to be everywhere - is there really something to them?   I have had rescues before - large lab/shepherds.  Are doodles all they claim to be - smart, friendly, trainable?  How often/how much do you spend on grooming.  I'm not interested in a mini.  Thanks![/quote]

They are not particularly smart. Some are friendly, some are anxious, twitchy, and kinda absent, mentally speaking. It's hard to say because they aren't bred from the best quality parents of either breed, and even if they were, behavioral genetics aren't directly transferred as neatly as we'd like. T[b]rainability is the same; they may or may not be easy to train, depending on what breed you "doodled" with and what the poodle parent was like. Poodles in general are smart enough, but kinda aloof and not the warmest or friendliest of dogs. Again, generally speaking.
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Grooming is a major PITA and requires daily upkeep and likely regular trips to a professional for trimming, especially if you don't keep up with the daily work.

If you must have a doodle, please adopt one of the many in breed rescues. They're easy to find, and the world really doesn't need any more of them. Giving an existing doodle a home is the only way to ethically come by one; all your other options are going to be mills or backyard breeders. [/quote]

Yeah, the poodle genetics were meant to smarten up the lab genetics and the lab genetics were supposed to warm up the poodle genetics. And it just really doesn't work that way.

+1 to adoption; plenty of doodles available out there and it is wrong to contribute to the existence of the mills. [/quote]

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