Help - 2 owners thinking of giving up their puppies

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

If any of our more wise doodle experts who are not members of Puppy Madness Group - would please go sign up so that you can respond to P.M group postings.  I'm not the right person to really help in this situation but we have 2 members talking about giving their puppies up.  Go to the Help I'm Getting Discouraged message and read through - you'll see we actually have 2 people talking about giving their puppies up.  Arrrrrrghhhh!  I've left a pretty stern message myself :(   but these owners need help and fast!!!!  One owner might be just venting - the other owner sounds pretty serious about giving up the dog "before we get too attached."  Barf.  We don't want to see their beautiful doodles given up - unless in the end that is the best option for the dog.  Please help!

[F, Calla & Luca]

OK J&K.  I wish I'd known sooner that we could make requests.  I would like an 8 month old trained, healthy, red pup, fleece coat, rose nose when my two are gone : ( I am flexible so either sex will do but maximum 30 pounds. The reason I'm letting you know is so you can plan :  )

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Got ya!  I'll deliver it myself.  Oh, and that is another thing all together.  BRING IT TO ME.  NOW.

Therapy Dog--Ya, you need therapy alright.  I could train Spud until he really could jump over the moon and no way in Doodle Dog Fur Butts is he ever going to pass a therapy dog class.  Picture Marley and Me going down the hall and destroying every med cart in the hall on the way to the patients room. Happy Happy Spud proceeds to jump on the patients bed and hump the pillow.  Bark Bark, Jump Jump, Hump Hump. And yes, he is trained.  But to his capacity.  He is the type of dog many give up on at 8 months.

Spud has had great training, raised by me since a puppy, I have  nothing else to do in my life ( Empty Nest) and I am realistic enough to know, a therapy dog he is NOT!

There are some romantic stories out there where the dog is rescued and becomes the perfect companion. That's what they are too--a romantic story.  Not reality. 

Recuse dogs and Therapy Dog should not be in the same sentence. 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

F.  you want non-shedding, yet easy grooming also. I want one that is self=cleaning.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Washing machine safe would do : )

[Adina P]

LOL...hahaha.  Although because I have a couple brown shag throw rugs it makes me dream of a matching doodle...poor dog, though, would go invisible if it ever laid on the rugs :)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I always read the 'orders'  from some new members - as if the DRC had a take-out menu, to my dh.  "I would like a martini (shaken not stirred) with my rescue doodle."  We giggle because we haven't ever ended up with the dog we thought we wanted even when we paid lotsa moola for them.  I ordered a black and white Springer, a red female doodle, and NEVER a white/cream doodle. You can't even get a perfect-dog menu from a top breeder.

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "I had no idea how dog stupid I was until I went to training classes".  I grew up on a farm, we had dogs my whole life, and none of them went to training.  However, they were mostly outside dogs.  They came in sometimes, but for the most part were outside.  They never walked on a leash because they never went anywhere.  We had a little poodle, but you just picked her up and carried her.  So, when we got Lucy and Sophie and I saw how rambunctious they were, I knew we needed to get into training and we needed to do it quickly.  I could not believe all the things I learned.  Even after 3 sets of training classes and a private trainer, I'm still learning.  I love understanding why they do the things they do and what they are trying to tell me by their actions.  However, it makes me crazy when we are out on therapy visits and people say "She is so well behaved, so smart, I want a dog like that" or "If I could have a dog like that I'd love to have another dog", or better yet, "Oh, I need a doodle, none of my dogs were ever that well behaved".   I've had many people tell me we have a doodle, but it is nothing like Sophie, it is so stupid, so crazy, not well behaved at all.   I feel obligated to tell them that doodles don't come that way, they aren't issued with manners, that there's hundreds of hours of training that has gone into Sophie (and Lucy too).  However, I normally find by that point they have stopped listening and moved back to how well behaved she is and they want a dog just like her!  ugh ... :o(   I think the bottom line to any dog is that you get out of them what you put into them. 

[GBK]

Amen!  I take my two everywhere, and they are very well behaved in public and both therapy dogs.  I have people constantly ask me "what breed/mix of dogs are they?  they are so well behaved, I want one just like that".  I then proceed to tell them that it takes constant training and socialization to produce dogs like "this".  Mine have continuous obedience training and more.  We have a relationship because I spend time, love and energy with them.  You can see their eyes glaze over when I start to explain ;)  I even had one german couple tell me that if anything ever happened and I had to rehome Buddy for any reason they would take him, Fat Chance.....

Both of my dogs had issues, Buddy brought me to tears many times as a puppy, and Kona had fear/barking issues that we still work on today.  But I so totally agree, yes, you get out what you put in! 

 

[Christine & Camus]

Oh, the stories I have heard!  I am to the point of wanting to turn and walk away whenever somebody says "he is so sweet and well behaved and he doesn't shed, how wonderful" yah, right - so I go into my talk about shedding and doing research, etc., etc., etc.  Camus probably got dumped because he sheds! I don't even tell them how much time I have spent working with Camus and that he wasn't born well-behaved.

[Ellen Hamilton]

I am new to this site.  Someone recommended it, to help me find a doodle to rescue.  We live in Colorado and have 2 acres of fenced property, no children, just grand children that come to visit a couple time a month.  How do I go to puppy madness.  This is all new to me

[F, Calla & Luca]

Puppy Madness is a group for new puppy owners, not for rescue. But you find it by going to groups and searching there. Doodles for rescue are pictured at the bottom of the main page. You should fill out an application with the DRC.