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by eight week old, a good breeder usually knows the type of coat the dog will get and whether the coat would shed at what degree.
I know a breeder and would like to have one. But there are always GSDs that are looking for home. I have two GSDs already. Now there are another pair of GSDs that are looking for home. Their owner just passed away....
I wouldnt trust what the breeder says. As I mentioned, Jax's coat completely changed when he turned 10 months old and his adult coat came in and his puppy coat fell out. He went from very soft, straight fur to curly, tight, thick, cotton like fur.
Every single goldendoodle is going to have two sets of fur, a puppy coat and an adult coat. You will never know what the adult coat is going to look like from the puppy coat. Just be careful about what a breeder tells you, even responsible ones are sales people on a very base level.
Not necessarily true for a mixed breed like a goldendoodle. It's a mix - how can you know if it's going to have a coat more like a golden or more like a poodle. Or both?
I saw several puppies in the breeder's home. she showed me which one is more like a poodle, which one is more like golden, and which one is more like a fleece, which one will not shed, which one will shed a lot and which one has several types of coat. However, I didn't buy any of those and didn't follow them to adult. So I don't know for sure.
Before I moved, I belong to a local breeder's club (I am not a breeder and will never be one, too much work and too much heartache). They have this program that in order to socialize their puppies, they ask volunteers who are willing to change into scrubs and shoe covers to pay with their three-eight week old puppies. I did several times before I moved away. It was fun.
I find it amusing that people are now buying mutts and then going around citing these creative names and paying $1500 for what was a pound mutt a few years ago. It is cute.
As far as what I think of them: I think they are dogs. Some are sweet, some are cute, some are awful, some are boring. This is true of every kind of dog I see, mutt or not.
BTW: We tell people our mutt is a "St. Elkberhound" Sounds neat huh? He is a mix of St. Bernard and Elkhound. Sure he is just a pound mutt, but it sounds just as fancy as a Gooberdoodle or whatever the trendiest mutt of the day is.
I absolutely agree with the fact that it's ridiculous that people actually pay high dollar for mixed breeds, because someone calls them some designer breed name.
(Heck, I could call my dog a Spinizsla, or a Vizspinone. He's half Spinone and half Wire-haired Vizsla, we think. LOL.)
That said, a lot of the doodle combos are pretty cute!
However, isn't there a Labradoodle (from Australia maybe?) line that is actually breeding true after quite a few generations?
unfortunately While F6 and beyond seem to be breeding fairly true to coat, serious genetic issues are popping up from the tiny gener pool in dogs beyond F4...
so by the time the coat breeds true the dogs a mess of other genetic breeding issues becaue the gene pool is too small...
most doodle breeders wont risk breeding past F4 which till arnt breeding true.
even the original labradoodle breeder in Australia admits to regretting ever coming up with the idea and starting "the fad" of doodles.
the idea was a good one...but people got in the way as per usual.
Goldendoodles are not actually a breed. Not trying to be a snob, but with a dog breed there are specific standards (size, color, features) that the breeders need to meet so there is some consistency. A goldendoodle on the other hand is just a cross of two breeds and there is no telling which traits you are going to get.
There are plenty of downsides to getting a specific breed of dog, but with a mix like a goldendoodle you are not getting the predictability of a breed, nor are you getting the lower cost and "hybrid vigor" of a mutt. Sort of the worst of both worlds.
They are mutts and should not be sold as if they were purebred. It is nice they don't shed and I know many people like them, but they should not have to pay anything more for them than they would any other mixed breed dog.
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