Schnoodle breeders

[Louindevon]

We would like to get a Schnoodle puppy. Is anyone able to recommend a breeder from personal experience please? Also, what to look for when choosing one?

Many thanks!

Tabula that's what I meant. Like a breed that hip scores or heart checks are recommended on the parents BEFORE breeding. Not a check that the puppy has four straight legs and two eyes that appear to work!

The certificates were supplied to us prior to us committing as per had she'd been a labrador. She was also checked over by a vet prior to us taking her home.

Labradoodles and cockerpoos i have both heard of good specialised breeders for. I just dont understand the schnauzer/poodle cross and havent as yet met any that didnt come from puppy farms (yes to the kc reg extra litters reason too)

There isn't any such thing as a reputable scnoodle breeder because they aren't a breed. They are mutts and breeders who breed mutts for cash and call them stupid designer names, don't generally do health checks. You're taking a massive risk.

Rather suspect the OP isn't coming back given all the negative replies; not much she can say to it all really.

I'd be really interested to know what makes someone decided to go for a mixed breed dog at an inflated price rather than buying one or the other of the parent breeds.

Given the ridiculous prices and the fact that the buyer has very little idea of what the adult dog will look like - I'm assuming they're buying for the look of the dog - and the breeders' motives would seem very questionable, it seems like an expensive gamble to me.

I'm sure some of the dogs are lovely with beautiful temperaments and many of them grow to be healthy dogs, but why would you risk it? Buying a dog is always a risk but surely if you're spending all that money, you'd try to eliminate at much of the risk as possible.

I entirely agree pigs. Every doodle I have met is lovely, but that's really not the point.

Our neighbours have just got a lab puppy. They waiting 8 months for this particular litter, and drove 4 hours to collect the puppy, miles away. The breeder had crate trained and the puppy already knew it's basic commands! They have hit the ground running, it's so calm!! All the health checks known to man done.

Why take the risk, I agree. I only wish all breeders and potential owners were this responsible.

piratesmile I think the point the pp was making is that once the bitch had had her 4 litters of pedigree puppies (kennel club only register 4 litters in the bitches lifetime) the breeders then get her churning out poodle crosses instead

I grew up with a lovely cross breed dog. They were an unwanted litter. My mum read up on both breeds before deciding to take the dog on. No health testing as it was a rescue pup. We were lucky.
To my mind you either want a pedigree (like the person I know who does agility at a serious level so chooses a pedigree pup to train) or a mutt.

All these made up names are ridiculous.

I met a woman yesterday with her dog, we got chatting and I asked what it was.. a fucking shorkie! I have never heard of them.

Looked like an ugly shitzu to me.

OP stop lining the pockets of puppy farmers and either get a rescue dog or a puppy from a reputable breeder that health checks her dogs.

One of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard was a woman who genuinely believed her "designer" pup was a "really good dog because it's got TWO pedigrees".

No amount of telling her that even a Crufts champion can only have one pedigree and that a cross breed doesn't even have one, let alone two, worked.

I'm guessing that she doesn't realise that pedigree basically means KC registered and that she was given a copy of each parents pedigree, without realising that this didn't mean her pup was registered - and that she though each pedigree was for her pup (ergo double pedigreed).

I have no problems with cross breeds, but there's so much snobbery surrounding them. IE mongrel and crossbre are technically interchangeable (at least according to the OED) but people insist two breeds equal a crossbreed, three or more is a mongrel.
Then there's folk who go on about "purebred labradoodles" (labradoodle bred with a labradoodle).
Then there's the stupid names and even more stupid prices - 20 years ago a crossbreed would go for £50, now some people have the cheek to charge more than for a purebred dog of excellent provenance. Example I saw labs with Drakeshead and Sandringham in the pedigree advertised for £500 in the same newspaper as a £750 cavapoo. Whoever pays that kind of price needs their head looking at.

If I could ever travel back in time I'd do a great service to dogs everywhere and change the name 'poodle' to 'plainhound' or something.

Then we'd have less of all this back street breeding shite to come up with the dog with the most ridiculous name.

Foolme Yes, I did understand that, but the point I was making is that this didn't happen in our case. Some 'doodle' owners are experienced dog owners and not the evil halfwits we're made out to be on threads like this

Perhaps, but no 'doodle' 'breeders' are.

No "doodle breeders' are what?
Fwiw I tell people my dog is a cross-breed. I am constantly asked 'what is she?' We've had people guess all sorts of things, otterhound, irish wolfhound, deerhound, lurcher. Everything except a 'labradoodle.'
I've also had experience of fostering a former breeding bitch from a KC registered pedigree kennel and there is a special place in hell reserved for the woman who did what she did to that poor dog.

Not all cross breeds come from a puppy farm with out the parents being health checked same as not all pedigree dogs are healthy or come from breeders who health check.

Did you find a good breeder?