to call my cockerpoo a poodle?

[Thebiggerthecoffeethebetter]

I rescued him last year. I did health testing via a DNA sample as I have done with my other rescues in the past. It can give you an idea of what you might need to prepare for in the future.

Anyway, it also tells you the breed make up and turns out he is 82% poodle which does not surprise me.

WIBU to say he is a poodle when people ask about him? He looks like a poodle, acts like a poodle and turns out is overwhelmingly poodle...🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm just so acutely aware of all the doodle hate and judgement 😭

(obvs his vet record and insurance has the breed make up)

Poo-mix.

My labradoodle is 85% poodle but she, although does look like a poodle, isn't so I just say "labradoodle".

When I was growing up in Yorkshire it was known as 'dog gor out'😆

I'd say he was a mixture if asked

People ask me what breed my toy poodle is on an almost daily basis! People seem to be so used to seeing poodle mixes that they are a bit surprised to see an actual poodle. People also seem surprised at what athletic dogs they are under that coat!

My girl was sold as a cavapoo but her mum was a cavapoo and her dad a toy poodle so I just say she's a poodle cross.

“Rescue, so god knows” 😂

i don’t get all the breed obsession. Always with the “what breed is he”. And the poodlydoodly “jackscavapooshitshon” bollocks as if it’s proper breed.

I have a yorkie- probably one of the most recognisable breeds out there, and I still constantly get asked about his breed. I think people now are so conditioned to the poodlydoodlys they’re expecting some cross name, like yorkipoo or morkie, and can’t get their heads round a single breed. I had a friend with a giant poodle and it would piss her off that everyone thought he was a labradoodle, and would never believe that he was “just” a poodle.

Just say you adopted him from a rescue and you don't know what breed he is but he's a good boy and that's all that matters. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We've got a mongrel who was the result of a whippet having a liaison with a poodle.

He's a whippypoo!

I work in a vet surgery. Some of the names we get 😂...they are all crossbreeds, and our computer drop down menu doesn't identify cockerpoos etc. We have to identify them as 'crossbreeds', as that's what they are.
A woman came in to register her 'shi poo'...
I was like, surely it's a pooey shit? 😂 Cute though.
I like the really unintentional mixes you get. Whippet cross border collie. Bloody lovely dog 😍

Both breeds are equally ugly in my eyes, so I'd believe you saying it was either of them.

We have a cockerpoo with extra poodle (cockerpoo mum, poodle dad). We call him a cocker poodle poo!

Is it just me or, or you just read the word "poodle " so many times it now sounds weird?

Anyway, call it what you want. I'd call it a cockerpoo if that's what he is. I generally just call them all doodles when I'm out, so many variations. Can be excellent dogs, get the training in and you'll have a lovely pet.

This thread is utterly alien to me. I have cats. Never owned a dog in my life. Is this what dog people are like? What's all this talk about being embarrassed by your dog's breed? The hell have you got the dog for then?

As for all the poodle doodle strudel... I have no idea wtf is going on. It's fascinating to me that there are people wandering about society caring about any of this.

There was no snide comment. That's in your head. A dog that is not a thoroughbred is a mongrel, a cross - whatever you want to call it is is a mix of breeds and not worth £thousands. It was a comment about mongrels, not about the OPs dog specifically, although is is not a Poodle, nor a Cockapoo - is is a mongrel. It is only in recent years that people have come to be convinced that mongrels are worth £thousands. These are all facts. Not snide comments. Get over yourself.

I could be less of a wanker.

I doubt it.

As i said earlier i have a schnauzer and a doodle/mongrel. I asked them last night what i should call the mongrel if asked as to not hurt his feelings. They were unanimous with wankerdoodle. So thats going to be fun in future.

I havent seen any annimosity to any doo. Doodle on here or in public. People who tend to ask or show interest tend to be dog lovers. If you just said it was a dog, 99% would give a toss.

However if you really want to know why there may be some kind of animosity against 'fashion dogs' its the market you are encouraging. Whether it be xl bullies, doodles, whatever inbred bug eyed monstrosity is the next fashion item it is never done with the dogs health in mind. It is 100% a marketing scam to earn more and more money by, the majority being unscrupulous breeders. A huge proportion of the dog breeding in this country is related to puppy farms/drug money/whatever other illegal business. It is a huge money maker that joe bloggs fuels with their lust for the next fashionable mutt. Of course there are grade A top notch breeders who are worth their weight in gold but thats a minority and controlling it is impossible.

Ask a dog refuge how they feel about fashion statement dogs when they are rammed full of dogs that have suddenly become unfashionable because the owner is a complete newcomer who gets themselves a totally unsuitable dog or cant afford the vets bills for their inbred bug eyed, cant breathe of or swallow properly abomination.

I tend to see the dog world similar to the coffee world. There is a huge market for arseholes wanting to pay 10x more for a moccawhattabullshit because someone has convinced everyone that a normal white coffee for 10x less wasnt quite good enough.

Why are you so irritated with what people spend their money on?

Sad.

I have a pedigree dog as well as a designer mongrel. They both cost the same. They are both gorgeous and bring me lots if happiness.

@EmmaMaria A mongrel is a mix of different breeds. Many what we now call breeds were originally crosses. Breeding true is the what one looks for and a breeder would select for when deciding on further breeding when working on a new strain. So a cockerpoo is an F1 which may or may not breed true - you could get a variety of body shapes between cocker and poodle if you bred from that generation. Not really the same as a mongrel.

I think calling it a poodle is fine if that's what you want. But I think people who pompously correct others to use the term mongrel are thinking of the days when random mixes mated with random mixes, rather than the selective pairing of two breeds.

Cockerpoo (as in Cocker Spaniel crossed with a Poodle) is a cross breed, not a KC registered breed, and as such they were correct in calling it a mongrel.

It does annoy me when I've heard people talking about their "pure bred" cockerpoo dog, by definition it's a cross breed unless/until the KC agreed to register it as a breed in it's own right. That's why at registered dog shows, you won't find a class for cockerpoos.

I don’t expect many nowadays could cope with the term “mongrel” but cross breed is perfectly acceptable for anything that isn’t a recognised KC full breed. At some point or other, most recognised “breeds” came about by crossing various breeds for certain characteristics, just as Cavapoos, Labradoodles, Sprockers, etc…. did. At some point, they may well be recognised in their own right, but at the moment, the breed characteristics are not fixed enough. Just love them for what they are. (Some awful breed characteristics have been bred into recognised Pedigree Breeds, poor things are now a shadow of what the breeds once were.)

We have a Labrador, a brown one. We often used to get people asking us what breed he was (he looks, smells, behaves, misbehaves entirely like a Labrador🤣) so we used to say he was a “Doge de Fromage”🤣🤣🤣

Making an assumption that that was what I was saying. Since it wasn't, you know what assuming things means.

This site says:

To be called a Cockapoo they have to have at least 25% of the pedigree core breed in them

If yours is only 18%, then technically, it isn't a cockerpoo. You can call it what you like though.

https://www.britishcockapoosociety.com/contents-page.html