I love little doodles and I cannot lie
You other trainers can't deny
When purpose bred mixes walk in with their itty bitty faces
You secretly hope they fill up all your training spaces
😂😂
Hello my name is Amy. I am a professional dog trainer, bite sport malinois handler and I ❤ doodles. Fight me.
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Despite what all the internet experts on instafaceyspace claim there ARE, in fact, ethical and responsible doodle breeders. They health test their dogs, follow their puppies' progress and care about the quality of the dogs in their programs.
For very backyard irresponsible doodle breeder I guarantee you there are 10 irresponsible backyard "pitbull" and GSD breeders. Any guesses which are filling up shelters?
I'd much rather my average pet client shell out $4500 on one of these doodles than a German Shepherd 🤷🏽♀️
Sorry but its true. I love malinois and German Shepherds, I've trained so many I cant even begin to count but let's be real, the average pet home is not equipped to live with a GSD. They want a dog they can take to their kid's baseball games and cafés and the dog park and not have to worry about it. I spend so much of my time educating owners. "No I'm sorry you bought a working line GSD, you will never be able to do X, Y or Z with it".
There are a whole lot of purebred breeders that are selling high energy working breeds to pet homes. As a trainer that is way more frustrating and disheartening than any of this doodle stuff. Most of the doodles are pretty cool and make awesome pets. Sure, there are some that aren't great and even some aggression issues but nothing like the issues we get when a working line GSD is placed in a pet home. Honestly I see a lot more behavior cases from golden retrievers (food aggression much) and standard poodles (breeding for the show ring is ruining this awesome breed imho) than I ever do in doodles. And I see A LOT of doodles.
I honestly cant understand the outrage from the "working dog" community over pet people going out and buying dogs that are appropriate for their homes. I would think we would be rejoicing! They're leaving our working dogs alone! 🥳🎉💃
Or do you just not think that non-working dog homes should own dogs? Or do you think these pet homes should get on one of those 5 year long waiting lists for one of the rare "doodle like" breeds. Genetic bottle neck much?
In last several months I've had to call two doodle breeders to report some less than desirable behavior I had seen in dogs from their programs (one was aggression one was anxiety/fear; weird temperaments pop up in every breed from time to time). Both of those breeders were extremely receptive and were seriously interested in my assessment. Both breeders also took steps to rectify the situation. The breeder of the aggressive doodle immediately called every puppy owner from that breeding to check in on them and also offered the family of the dog in question a FREE puppy from any of her future breedings.
You know what happened last time I called a "responsible" GSD breeder about a serious temperament issue I was seeing in their dog?
They immediately blamed the owner, the training, the food, literally everything except a possible genetic temperament flaw in a dog they had produced. Another trainer colleague of mine Tierney Lynne Silver-Goeden had a serious issue with dog aggression in one of her client dogs. She called the breeder to tell her about the issue and find out what steps the owner would need to do to send the dog back. That breeder claimed that dog reactivity didn't happen in her line of GSD (😳😂😂😂), blamed the owner and refused to take the dog back. These weren't backyard GSD breeders, they were big name "responsible breeders".
I get it. You love purebreds. (Me too btw) Awesome! Doodles aren't taking away from your purebreds. In fact, I would argue they are preserving the quality of our purebreds by reducing the watering down of our purpose bred dogs for the pet market."
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