kimberleigh
Well-Known Member
How many of you all own these mad beasts??
My first thought was that a Cockapoo would be an easy, fluffy, family dog who would give me an enjoyable break from the more high maintenance working dog breeds I have - how wrong I was 🙈
Why I had this idea I do not know - after all, a working cocker spaniel crossed with a poodle, on paper, is never going to be a laid back sofa surfer!
She's fluffy yes but she is just as much work as the ones I wanted to chill from. She is like a kangaroo on speed, agile as a cat and faster than I deemed possible for her type! She has endless energy and requires a huge amount of physical exercise plus a ton of mental stimulation to keep her on a sort of even keel.
She has an exceptional nose and loves going off flushing with the springer, copes very well in all weathers and loves water. She is tough as nails, having been recently stepped on by one of the horses without so much as a whimper! If she gets hurt, she dusts herself off as if nothing happens!! Her conformation is second to none.
Downsides to her are that she has an incredibly sensitive digestion so frequent bad tum from scavenging in fields, reacts badly (skin wise) to grain/fillers etc and can be a little nervy environmentally if something unexpected happens. It is hard to keep any weight on her, under the curls she has the frame of a whippet. She is also fairly reactive to new people and dogs despite extensive socialisation, but once she gets over herself she loves to play with dogs (though can be a little bit of a bully if a dog cant match her in rough and tumble stakes 🙈
It would be interesting to know sizes of others too - I think shes a big girl at 22" and 16kg. She just turned 10months yesterday!
My first thought was that a Cockapoo would be an easy, fluffy, family dog who would give me an enjoyable break from the more high maintenance working dog breeds I have - how wrong I was 🙈
Why I had this idea I do not know - after all, a working cocker spaniel crossed with a poodle, on paper, is never going to be a laid back sofa surfer!
She's fluffy yes but she is just as much work as the ones I wanted to chill from. She is like a kangaroo on speed, agile as a cat and faster than I deemed possible for her type! She has endless energy and requires a huge amount of physical exercise plus a ton of mental stimulation to keep her on a sort of even keel.
She has an exceptional nose and loves going off flushing with the springer, copes very well in all weathers and loves water. She is tough as nails, having been recently stepped on by one of the horses without so much as a whimper! If she gets hurt, she dusts herself off as if nothing happens!! Her conformation is second to none.
Downsides to her are that she has an incredibly sensitive digestion so frequent bad tum from scavenging in fields, reacts badly (skin wise) to grain/fillers etc and can be a little nervy environmentally if something unexpected happens. It is hard to keep any weight on her, under the curls she has the frame of a whippet. She is also fairly reactive to new people and dogs despite extensive socialisation, but once she gets over herself she loves to play with dogs (though can be a little bit of a bully if a dog cant match her in rough and tumble stakes 🙈
It would be interesting to know sizes of others too - I think shes a big girl at 22" and 16kg. She just turned 10months yesterday!
