Thoughts and a Question

[Joanie]

I took Lan to the park today and she did great.  She was very happy and met lots of dogs, including another Labradoodle who looked nothing like her!  I'm guesssing it wasn't an ALD as it looked completely different, bone structure wasn't even the same, and wasn't at all friendly.  I don't see many labradoodles and it made me realize just how vastly they can differ in appearance and temperment wise.  Also, it was kind of funny because for some odd reason a lot of people ask me if Lan is a standard poodle... I don't even think she looks like a poodle.  Do other labradoodle owners get this question a lot?

[Diana Erhart]

Charlie is an ALD with a wool coat.  He gets mistaken for a poodle about 99% of the time!  

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Most curly-coated doodles of any type look very much like poodles with long tails. You just may not have seen many poodles with unshaved faces and natural coats.

Also, even in ALDs, you do get quite a variety of "looks". They are still mixes that do not breed "true".

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

In the new Therapy class Sophie and I are attending there is the most beautiful Blue Standard Poodle.  I think it might be a male, but if Lucy were in a poodle cut they would have looked very similar only the Poodle was taller.   Gorgeous dog.

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

Karen - just curious - "even in ALDs, you do get quite a variety of "looks". They are still mixes that do not breed true" do you mean that as in between the entire ALD spectrum?  Because for instance - Rooney's breeder - I've closing watched every litter that they have had for 2 years now and there isn't one puppy that doesn't breed right to type.  Not one.  So in your opinion is it certain breeders that are producing puppies not to type? 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

No, not certain breeders. I mean that even with ALDs, you still get open-faced, non-doodley looking dogs, we've had a few here, and that there is still a pretty big variation in appearance from what I see. Maybe your breeder has been able to achieve uniformity in her lines, but I don't see that across the board. I'm not sure what "type" means in ALDS. In purebreds, "type" refers more to the overall impression of the dog, the carriage, the attitude, rather than the physical standard. Maybe you mean "standard" rather than type. But I don't think all ALDS look like each other, or look different from, say, a medium F1B. So I guess I mean across the entire spectrum.

You look at a purebred German Shepherd, and you know that's a German Shepherd, even though there are variation in colors and some are bigger, stockier, or whatever. You never get a poodle puppy with an open face, or a flat coat. You do with ALDs; maybe your breeder doesn't, but most ALD breeders will tell you they do. That kind of thing.

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

Got ya.  Rooney's breeders - they got their original breeding stock straight from the Tegan Park/Rutland lines and have kept going generation after generation.   So to ME - their puppies look the same in type and standard.  It would be fun to meet an F1B to compare but any ALD I've seen in person so far - you can't mistake the ALD look.  One is not better than the other - I'm not saying that.

 

[Joanie]

My breeder is the same kind... got their lines straight from Tegan Park/Rutland lines so also their ALDs that I met and all the pictures I have seen of their ALDs look like Lani and have a similar personality

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

Jane, all of Webber's breeder's dogs breed true to type as well.  I have been watching them for almost five years.  I think the multigens, where there are not any new infusions, are consistent.

[F, Calla & Luca]

My two multigens look very different from each other, at least to me. And  they were bred from Australian lines with no new infusions at least after the grandparents came to the US. One never knows what went on in Oz.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Both extremely cute, though!

[Kaytlin and Cooper]

I agree, my breeders dogs all look similar. It is still possible to get a throwback though, i did meet an ALD once that looked very much like a slim lab with very whispy longer hairs. Never seen a dog like that before

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

When Fudge gets groomed and her hair is short, she looks just like a poodle and we call her Fifi...LOL. She is an F1B Labradoodle.