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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Such weird animosity towards Goldendoodles and their owners.[/b] We love ours and think she’s cute. I don’t spend one minute thinking ugly thoughts about other people’s dogs/breeds. I find it so odd that you people make negative generalizations about other people’s dogs. My doodle is 50/50 - she looks like a small golden retriever with more wavy hair, is sweet, loyal, and obedient, and is just the right fit for our family. And she sheds so that should make you doodle haters feel even more gleeful with your scorn.[/quote]

NP and I think the reason people have strong negative reactions is that 1) 90% of the goldendoodle market is straight-up puppy farms, which is terrible, and 2) goldendoodles are really popular dogs for first time dog owners.  They're outrageously cute (I don't understand the people calling them ugly upthread) and they're marketed as being smart and friendly and hypoallergenic and non-shedding (any of these claims could or could not be true for any given dog, but that's marketing for you).  So you get a bunch of people who've never had dogs before buying these Jim Henson creatureshop creation looking puppies, setting them up with their own Instagram account, and not really understanding or putting in the work for a dog that's going to end up being quite large.  And they take them [i]everywhere[/i], and they lunge at dogs on the lead and jump on anyone who gets close, and the owners are like "She's friendly!" but have no control over them . . . it's a whole thing.  I've never met a mean goldendoodle, but I've met a LOT of badly-behaved ones.  The owners don't know what they're doing w/r/t basic training and they just count on the Golden sweetness outweighing the fact that the dog's going to be 75 lbs.  And then this owner who doesn't know what they're doing tries to sell you on the "breed" with the spiel that the puppy farm sold them on, and it's hard to keep a straight face.  [i]Oh, you're all allergic to dogs?  Tell me more.[/i][/quote]

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