Insight needed into Pure Breed Only people.

[Jennifer and Jack]

I am seriously looking for insight because I don't understand......I met a girl online who is a friends sister... We met because of a fund raiser my friend have done for me to help with medical costs for me going to CO.... ( only saying that because she donated money to me that I now feel obligated to give back to her) since I make "her sick by owning a doodle"

I don't particularly care if people like doodle's or not.. I am not one of those people who has to change the minds of other people....

Anyway she is a die hard animal lover..which I totally respect and think it great.. The world can't have enough animal lovers as far as I am concerned... She has three Labrador Retrievers.. Apparently they are the only good dog on the planet.. or other pure breeds are okay but "doodles are an abomination"

Now we had been talking back and fourth, sharing ideas and information..She is a CF carrier, so she doesn't have the disease but carries the gene.... all was going great until she posted that article.. that has been posted on here already and is not a big deal.. It is the guy who thought of creating the Labra-doodle ...the article where he states he is sorry he ever did it because people have gone crazy with it..... making false claims etc.. Most of us have read it and most of us I think agree with it.. It is not right to make claims that they are hypo-allergenic etc...

So when she posted the article... that is when I told her I have a golden doodle.. That I agree with a lot of the article that back yard breeders shouldn't be breeding etc... I commented on how DRC has so many dogs because of false promises from breeders.. I felt like I was fair about the article but that if people wanted one, knowing full well what they were getting into, what harm is it. It isn't like she only adopts shelter dogs and if she did I would understand her point more..but she is buying from a breeder too.

 She called Jack all kinds of names etc.. Jack's feeling's are not hurt LOL but seriously....

Is this common among pure breed dog owners, they think there breed is the only breed that is good? I certainly don't think that about doodles.. I certainly am aware they are mixed dogs considered mutts at this point... I don't care.. Jack doesn't care... 

I get the point about false claims with them and I told her so... Now when she makes posts with questions she says Labrador retriever owners only please answer .. It is laughable

I love all dogs... seriously .. kick me off DK if you want :) but I am pretty sure any dog that was placed in my home I would fall madly in love with....  I do love doodles.. I think they are very, very cute, probably the cutest dog in the world.. 

[Jennifer and Jack]

No worry here. While I admit, I love that people make a fuss over Jack and love on him.. and call him cute and think he is sweet..... and it really does make me feel good to hear that.. I don't need it from every person in the world.. Just almost everyone. :)

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Jen, I don't think there is any way to understand someone like this. I have friends who bought their dogs from pet stores and internet puppy mills, for Pete's sake! While that makes me sick, it doesn't stop me from being friends with them. I tell myself they didn't know any better and focus on other things.

I think this woman has a screw loose, and it is a blessing that she is "done" with you. Good riddance.

[Jennifer and Jack]

LOL.... agreed on all parts!

[BG and Gavin]

My brother in law and his wife show dogs. They have welsh terriers and aerdale terriers. You could hear a pin drop when we told them we got a doodle. They politely contained their sighs and eye rolls but I could feel the tension. However they love dogs. So when we brought Gavin to Christmas dinner at my FIL's they all fell in love with him. At the end of the visit my SIL said "he really is a wonderful dog. I wish mine (some of which are obedience titled) had half the manners of him." My point is, just know in your heart that if she actually met Jack in person she would fall in love too.

[Jennifer and Jack]

No doubt when people meet Jack, they fall in love with him... Just like when I meet other people's dogs, I fall in love with them because a true dog lover in my humble opinion is not going to be prejudice against a breed. They may prefer one over the other.. but a pure dog lover is going to love a dog because they are a dog.... and people can learn a lot about love from dogs/

I would if was ever going to get a dog get another doodle.. I love them.. I am not getting another dog ever but I adore them...

[Diane, Baker & Oskar]

What makes her right?

She sounds controlling & severely lacking in social skills.  I'll bet she's lonely too.

[Pat and Traveler]

Jennifer, you mentioned something that has amazed me too.  The 'doodles are an abomination' thing.  It seems like such an over-the-top reaction!  Even if somebody thinks these dogs are bred only to make money for breeders and hoodwink the buyers, the reaction seems so extreme!   A vet tech called Trav, as a labradoodle, the worst of both breeds.  He was demonstrating perfect behavior at the time, allowing the vet and techs to check out his eyes, take his temperature, pluck his ears, etc.  I guess one of the things that puzzles me is why somebody thinks it's okay to say things like this to any dog owner.  It's just rude--like a stranger suddenly making mean comments about your shoes, or your jacket!  

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I agree Pat. When it's this extreme, it's really not even about dogs or breeding, it's about plain old-fashioned rudeness, just like a personal comment about someone's shoes. 

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Exactly Pat, I feel the same way.  How rude and hurtful! 

[Jennifer and Jack]

I guess I am always trying to understand things that are not understandable....I usually try to give people the benefit of the doubt and see why they think the way they do but in this case I am unfriended and all I learned was she is rude and narrow minded... I got nothing else out of it.

[Pat and Traveler]

I think that's the only thing you can learn here, Jennifer.  She is rude and narrow minded.  Good riddance.

[Marnie, Stanlee's Mom]

Gosh, I'd hate to see what she had to say about all the dogs currently at her local shelter......and having owned a labrador in the past, I will be the first to say they're hoodlums!  Lovable hoodlums but hoodlums non-the-less.  Now, if they were truly "that bad" do you honestly think I would have knowingly brought a labradoodle into my home?  Probably not.  In a nut shell it's already been said, who needs a friend as cruel and narrowminded as that? Yea, me neither.