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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have an Australian labradoodle. She is 40 pounds of fluff and literally the best behaved dog I have ever met. She’s super smart and a people pleaser. She learns any trick with ease.  She whisper-barks or grumbles when she needs something because she knows she’s not supposed to bark. She puts herself in her crate if she sees anyone putting their shoes on, and promptly at 10:30pm every night all by herself. She loves attention, and will thump her paw on the couch next to me if I’m ignoring her. She doesn’t touch things that don’t belong to her. Doesn’t chew. Doesn’t mind thunderstorms.

But. 
She loves people. 
Like really loves people. 
And she can not contain her excitement when she meets new people and she wants to jump all over them. Even at 2 years old, she needs constant direction to stay on her bed when guests are here until she calms down and can wander around and act like a normal dog. It usually a 20 minute process.

But I’d still pick her again over every dog I’ve ever known. [/quote]

Similar experience with our doodle. Super smart and loves to please, and will sleep on the couch all day — until a new person shows up. So very excited. He knows not to jump, but, left to his own devices, will circle and wiggle and otherwise insist on the attention of the new person. When someone shows up at the door, we all know that someone needs to be on “make the dog sit” duty. After about 15-20 minutes, he’s back to his normal, chill, self, but I haven’t yet figured out how to train it out of him. It’s actually good, in some ways, because he loves being boarded — “new people!”

As for other dogs, we have an older, very small dog, and it is definitely the “alpha.” The little dog was fully grown when we got the doodle puppy, and he can still back the doodle down with a growl, even though the doodle is 6x as big (they were about the same size when the doodle was a puppy). The doodle gave up on trying to play with the older dog pretty quickly. They mostly seem to ignore each other, but they are bonded (sleep together, get antsy when they’re separated, etc). At least the doodle is, I think our older dog would be fine if the doodle went away. [/quote]

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