Double Doodles...

[Joann Valerio]

Help... Just learned from a Facebook post that there are Doodles where both parents are Doodles.
Has anyone heard of this? If so, could someone post a picture and are they F1, F2 OR?
Thanks for your feedback!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

What generation a double doodle is depends on what generation the parents are. If the parents are both F1s, the double doodle puppies are F2s, and of all the generations, that's the one most likely to shed and to not look very "doodle-y". F1 to F1 breedings are not recommended, and very few reputable breeders do them.

If one parent is an F1 and the other is an F1B, that's an F2B. If both parents are higher generations, that's called a multi-gen. 

As for posting pictures, I could post 20 pictures of "double doodles" and you wouldn't see two that look alike, so there's no point. 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

This is an F2 "double doodle" owned by a member of DK:

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

DK has a group for Double Doodles, more photos there: http://www.doodlekisses.com/group/doubledoodlesnorthamericanretrievers

[Diane, Baker & Oskar]

Our Oskar is a double doodle...his mother is a standard F1 golden doodle & his father is a 20# Australian labradoodle.  He is 35#, considered a mini/medium double doodle.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Yes, "double doodles" usually involved an LD and a GD breeding, although I think it's fairly unusual to find an ALD/Goldendoodle breeding. 

[Joann Valerio]

Interesting. Had no idea about the ALD connection. A woman I met in the park with her second ALD told me she got her first ALD in Australia.

[F, Calla & Luca]

There are multigenerational Austrailian labradoodles and also Americanbred multigenerational labradoodles and golden doodles. All these combinations are one kind of doodle bred to another doodle of the same kind. Double doodles usually refer to puppies bred from a labradoodle and a goldendoodle.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Mostly when people refer to a dog as a double doodle, they mean that they are a combo of Goldendoodle and Labradoodle.  Another name is North American Retriever.   ALDs are doodles that have their genetic heritage in Australia.

Ned is a seventh generation miniature Australian Labradoodle.

Kona is a Double Doodle (half F1B Goldendoodle and half Multi-gen Australian Labradoodle) that belongs to Gwyn.  This is one of Gwyn's pictures that I hijacked from her page.  In photos Ned and Kona look very much alike.

[Nancy]

Oliver (back) and Ivy (front) are both Multigeneration ALD's.  Oliver is a medium and weighs 38 lbs, and Ivy is a small medium and weighs 21 lbs.

[Ginny Nightingale]

Lots of doodles have parents that are both doodles--the difference is that most of those parents are the same KIND of doodle--like two labradoodles for example. An F1 labradoodle to an F2 labradoodle, etc, etc. The offspring can look very varied, as Karen said...

If you get a double doodle, then one parent is a goldendoodle and the other is a labradoodle. This seems like a bad idea to me, since labs and goldens do not have the exact same genetic background so you are adding all of the potential genetic ailments from the two breeds into one doodle. But i am sure it works out most of the time...I prefer to stick to just two breeds--labs and poodles or goldens and poodles, so that you do not add up all those possible issues with health.