How much for a mongrel!!

[Cinnamontoast]

The man who 'invented' labradoodles (as a non shed guide dog, in Australia) has decried what is happening with them.

And was it only three of a litter of eleven or so that turned out to be non moulting?

 

[Amos]

I've just heard of a neighbour who has paid £1600 for a Labradoodle! However, it had been castrated at 6 weeks (probably a whole new thread for that jem) and so I expect part of that cost covered the op. Total madness.

 

[dressagedreamer]

I've just heard of a neighbour who has paid £1600 for a Labradoodle! However, it had been castrated at 6 weeks (probably a whole new thread for that jem) and so I expect part of that cost covered the op. Total madness.

Good grief, my next-door neighbour paid £900 for a cockerpoo, it looks like a poodle....why they didn't buy a poodle god only knows, but the thing is mental...two breeds, highly intelligent with high energy levels and both with a great deal of hypertension, totally untrainable and dominate running rings around its first time dog owners.....and yap OMG does it yap none stop.

Perhaps I ought to put my puppy prices up.......after all they are an ancient breed with a blood line I can trace back to the Tsar of Russia's kennel and have full health history way back to 1950!!! .....oh no forgot, we pure bred breeders are lower than low and who would want a dog that they know will grow a certain height, with a particular temperament (good in my case) and are genuinely healthy!!!!

 

[Vicstress]

I don't have a problem with it - some pedigree dogs are so inbred that adding something else to the mix surely isn't a bad thing?

Archie is a working x show cocker and has great bright eyes and not the droopy troublesome eyes I see on so many other cockers. Sadly I think he was originally from a puppy farm and doesn't have the best front leg confirmation though....think we'll have joint problems later in life.

 

[HeatherAnn]

@ Nah
Mine is the same breed and I'll have you know that they are called Boradors! You must have a poor example of the breed as mine cost £50, so there

 

[Honey08]

Basically people are paying hundreds of pounds to call their dogs a silly name rather than being interested in anything else about the dog. They are the stupidest of the stupid! They are just buying a mongrel, nothing wrong with that, but more fool them for paying!

 

[EAST KENT]

The allergen factor is more to do with shedding dander than hair.Crossbreds produced as non allergic can and should be genectically tested before being sold as such,there is a DNA test for it apparently.All dogs moult to some degree,dander is the root problem.