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Anonymous wrote:All the doodles need extensive training. Very hyper active dogs with extreme grooming needs.

This is just not universally true.

I have a golden doodle who is one year old and she would sleep 22 hours a day if we let her. She is lively on her walks and retrieves balls, but she loves to snooze. The grooming needs outweigh the shedding nuisance. Training was simple. Literally the easiest dog to train we ever had (out of 6). She's smart like a poodle and wants to please like golden retrievers or labs.
There's a reason these dogs are popular.

It's just a little random. Some of them inherit the golden temperment, and some of them don't. That's why mixes are a little unpredictable. They seem to run about 50/50 to me. It's like people though -- everyone knows a family where one of the kids takes after the father in temperment, and one takes after the mother. It's not like they all end up as a perfect average of the father and mother. That's not the way genetics works.

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Anonymous wrote:We're considering getting another dog, and the Australian Labradoodle seems like a nice mix, but don't know anyone who has one. We have a pug at home and would like to get a second dog. We'd like the new dog to be more playful than the pug (who is very sweet, but is a total couch potato), but don't want a dog that is prone to being hyperactive, excessively jumpy, etc., both for our own sakes and because we don't want to overwhelm the pug. Our kids are 10 and 5.

Anyone have an Australian Labradoodle? Can you offer any thoughts on their temperment/activity level, etc.

Check out Lagotto Romagnolo(Italian waterdog). It is a very established breed so less variation(problems)with the breed. Size is about 35-40 pounds and hypoallergenic. Great family dog. We get ours cut like a Labradoodle and not the breed groomers cut(which is ridiculous). Most people mistake our girl for a labradoodle. Loves water!

There is a breeder in Northern Virginia.

I have a Lagotto. They are very high energy dogs and also can be anxious. I have met people with Lagottos that all say the same thing. I LOVE mine, but she is the furthest thing from chill.

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure there are great doodles, but they are everywhere here and every one I’ve encountered is jumpy and hyperactive. Our neighbor’s tackles me if I’m ever in the vicinity and none of the kids will go near her. Is it the poodle that makes them like that, or am I just meeting outliers?

This is my experience as well. I've personally known more than half a dozen people who have owned one including my brother and SIL, and they are all big high energy dogs. All of the one's I've just met seem to be the same. So while this IS a generalization, many do seem to be high maintenance.

I have known a few and even with training, each has been a jumper, even past the puppy stage. All are exercised/walked but still on the hyper side. I'd be careful about the individual dog you get, your thoughts re: the breed may not carry over. The jumping up towards people's faces is not a great fit re: young kids or the elderly, seems to go along with getting really excited by new people, whether visitors, on walks, etc. They are smart, I know one that does agility work. They may be more high energy than you are seeking.

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Anonymous wrote:All the doodles need extensive training. Very hyper active dogs with extreme grooming needs.

The Australian labradoodles are supposed to be the calm ones, unlike other doodles. Are they hyper? Do you know many of them?

NP. Neighbors have one and it is hyper, even with a lot of walking, etc.

We have an Australian labradoodle. Lots confuse this with an aussie doodle or other kind of doodle as evidenced by above comments. Australian is it's own breed.
Ours is 3 years old and I was just commenting to my husband this morning that we can never get another dog because they won't be amazing as him. BTW there are three sizes - we have a mini (25 lbs.). He's sweet, calm, sleeps a ton, doesn't need a lot of exercise but loves to play fetch. Super smart, can learn new tricks in a day.

Anonymous wrote:We're considering getting another dog, and the Australian Labradoodle seems like a nice mix, but don't know anyone who has one. We have a pug at home and would like to get a second dog. We'd like the new dog to be more playful than the pug (who is very sweet, but is a total couch potato), but don't want a dog that is prone to being hyperactive, excessively jumpy, etc., both for our own sakes and because we don't want to overwhelm the pug. Our kids are 10 and 5.

Anyone have an Australian Labradoodle? Can you offer any thoughts on their temperment/activity level, etc.

Check out Lagotto Romagnolo(Italian waterdog). It is a very established breed so less variation(problems)with the breed. Size is about 35-40 pounds and hypoallergenic. Great family dog. We get ours cut like a Labradoodle and not the breed groomers cut(which is ridiculous). Most people mistake our girl for a labradoodle. Loves water!

There is a breeder in Northern Virginia.

We love our Australian Labradoodle - from SeaSpray https://www.seasprayaustralianlabradoodles.com/
But you should know that they (like all creatures) are individuals. They have their own personality that you discover as they grow up (if you get a puppy). You might try a doodle rescue so you can choose an adult dog.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Are australian labradoodles calmer than regular labradoodles?

My friend has an Australian labradoodle. He is amazing. Very chill but not lazy.

I don't understand why everyone wants all these poodle mixes instead of just getting a poodle. Poodles are great dogs!

Anonymous wrote: I have a neighbor that has a Labradoodle. He is fairly large, I’d say about 80 pounds or so, and very strong. Fortunately he is friendly as when he sees something like a squirrel or a dog he is able to pull and get away from the teenage girl who typically walks him. I have seen him pull her down as he got away. Anyway that dog is a bit high energy.

Same here. The dog has to go to day care because it’s such high energy. It also pulled my neighbor and he ended up breaking his leg. It’s very large.

I just saw one on Worthy Dog rescue fb page. Puppy- really cute.

Anonymous wrote:We're considering getting another dog, and the Australian Labradoodle seems like a nice mix, but don't know anyone who has one. We have a pug at home and would like to get a second dog. We'd like the new dog to be more playful than the pug (who is very sweet, but is a total couch potato), but don't want a dog that is prone to being hyperactive, excessively jumpy, etc., both for our own sakes and because we don't want to overwhelm the pug. Our kids are 10 and 5.

Anyone have an Australian Labradoodle? Can you offer any thoughts on their temperment/activity level, etc.

Just get a lab. or a golden. Don't get a Australian sheperd mix because it will be too much for you.