Choosing the Color of Your Doodle

[Kyle, Maggie & Jack]

As we begin to think about adding another doodle to our family, I was curious as to what factors went into your color choice of a doodle. Did you just fall in love with the puppy and color didn't matter? Was color a major deciding factor? Maggie is cream colored w/ brownish nose, loved the light color, and wanted something that wouldn't change too much.

For our second doodle, I was leaning toward something different like all black or dark chocolate with hopefully a black nose, but was afraid the color would change alot as the adult coat came in. We want something different for our second, just not sure how different....if that makes sense.

Just curious as to others color preferences......Thanks!

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

When I was first looking for a doodle I really wanted a red one. When we found Zoe (already born) DH fell in love with her face and personality. We thought it would be better to get her than wait... She is the cutest dog to us and we love her so much. The breeder told us that she would silver out and it's been really fun watching her colors change. It's so different. She has alot of silver on her tail and back legs so she looks like she's wearing pants, a lot of silver speckles everywhere else, a white goatee, and a brown/purple muzzle.
We get Bender later and we love him as well. His colors were more apricot and he had brown ears as a puppy but he grew more cream as he got older. He still has tan ears and lashes. so I never got that red doodle I was looking for and DH does not want a third dog haha! My conclusion is that color doesn't matter :)

[J and Riley (and Luna)]

My husband has always loved Goldens, so we wanted a Golden-coloured doodle :)  We lucked out and Luna is pretty much a pint-sized Golden... personality included.  We originally wanted one of the lighter-coloured puppies from the litter, but fell in love with Luna's personality at the breeder's.  She ended up even darker than she was when we got her!  Most doodles tend to lighten with age, Luna is just a bit of an oddball :)

I think we would have fallen in love no matter what colour she was, but her whole litter was shades of gold/apricot so there wasn't a lot of variety.

[Wendy and Myla]

We got our first doodle, Zak, seven years ago and we had no idea what a doodle was - we saw an ad in the paper (didn't know what I know now about health testing etc. - and had to google what a "golden doodle" was.  We were intrigued, went to see her and fell in love of course.  Zak and all of her littermates were jet black and absolutely gorgeous!  Unfortunately, Zak died of EPI at the age of five and not long afer her death  I  desperately wanted another doodle but definitely not black because I did not want to compare to Zak. I wanted a puppy completely different.  I started looking into it slowly as DH was not as keen as I to get another dog (said he couldn't go through that heartbreak again) and decided I wanted a red doodle. I love the looks!  I absolutely didn't want a white one, even though they're adorable, because we do a lot of camping and I knew that if they looked "greyish" I would be bathing immediately.  I wanted the reddest in the litter because I know that they usually lighten but the breeder picked Myla for us as far as personality and she was bang on!  And Myla has also darkened while getting her adult coat (right now she is sun bleached and it looks so cute, dark underneath with blonde tips)!

  If a black nose is important to you I think you would have to go to a black doodle, not a chocolate but I'm not 100% sure.  Something you could look into.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Chocolate dogs have brown noses. I've seen a lot of color combinations in doodles, but have yet to see a brown doodle with a black nose. It doesn't happen in Chocolate Labs or in Chocolate Poodles. 

[F, Calla & Luca]

Chocolate doodles have the brownish rose noses and lighter eyes.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I love the rose nosed doodles for their eyes. I also like knowing when the ticks come, and I see most of them in the late fall, I can easily spot them usually before they embed. So I have two rose nosed light color doodles : )

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I think color is the least important characteristic in a dog. And when you look through the photos here on DK, it's easy to see that all doodles of any color are beautiful. Most important is health and temperament. 

In my case, I happen to prefer black dogs, and black pigment. But JD was adopted from a shelter as is, lol. I would never have chosen a light colored dog. Now I think blonde is beautiful. :-)

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Fell in love with the Doodle and her eyes, nothing else mattered:)

[Diane, Baker & Oskar]

First pick your breeder, then pick the litter, then temperament & then color.  We were happy when Oskar was apricot, seemingly rather dark apricot, when he came to us at 7 weeks.  He is now a year old with a pure white face with only apricot on the top of his back & ears.  He & Baker are almost a matched set with a 65# weight difference :)

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

"First pick your breeder, then pick the litter, then temperament & then color."

Perfect advice!!! 

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

AGREE!  Just coming in here to say the same thing. 

[Jay, Lola and Colonel Esau]

Well put.