[haflingerfriends] Re: Labradoodles...gypsy crosses, or any cross for that matter

No, these dogs, just like the gypsy haflinger cross, haflinger paint cross, friesan/morgan/standardbred, whatever you want to call them, are all mutts, pure and simple or grades at best. Anyone can start a registry by putting a stamp on a paper, it takes a lot more than just that, and I have tried to be pretty nice on this list about these topics, but really, you are talking about money for the newest fad, that's all. Taking years of what people have worked hard to improve a breed, any breed, and crossing it to come up with a fashionable, marketable item when in fact, it is a mutt or grade. In the end, those people or 'breeders' who fall prey to these types of fads, and participate in them will be gone soon enough, once the money is gone, and yet the flood of unwanted, unuseful animals are what are left for the greed. Instead of trying to make a cross 'better' or 'more fashionable' why not try to develop the breed itself, pure to pure from the hundreds of years that has already been developed by people who know the lines, developed the lines, know the character, the conformation, trainability and temperament? That in itself takes a lifetime, let alone trying to make a new 'breed' in even 10 or 20 years.
But just because you cross one and one doesn't make it another breed, no matter how much you pay for it, market it, or put into it. In five or ten years where will these animals be? Crossed with another mutt for the next fashionable thing, and all the qualities we loved from the original two animals are lost.

Jacque in Ohio
Woodward Performance Haflingers
www.hfbhaflingers.com
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> Working for a vet and having three huge labradoodle/goldedoodle breeders as regular clients, it is obvious this mutt is a breed. I don't like it, hate it when they bring their 6week old puppies in to get spayed or neutered, but AKC and UKC is not the only registeries. yes they are the biggest and most credited, but they will soon enough recognize it as a breed (Yuck in my opinion. lol)
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> Here is the website to one of our local breeders and OMG for what the puppies sell for and she has a waiting list!! http://www.gailslabradoodles.com/
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> This is one of the bigger registeries they talk about all the time..
> http://www.ilainc.com/index.html
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> They are right up there with the boxer, pug, lab, australian shepard, mastiff breeders that come in. They get their dogs OFA and Penn Hip Certified and BAER tested if needed. I mean they get the works done so at least they are responsible. Things change and it is like this in the horse world too.
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> Just throwing out there what I've learned while working for a vet.
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> Jennifer in cali
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> > Everyone has their own reasons for doing what they do. There is no reason nor point trying to explain those reasons when People already have their minds closed off to other things. I mean, look at the labradoodle for instance, I dislike poodles very much and wonder WHY would you breed a lab to a poodle? because someone somewhere in australia loved labs, but were allergic to them, well poodles being hypoallergenic would be a great mix for a lab right? So now you have a new breed
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> > So which legitimate registry has recognized them?  None to my knowledge, and most definitly not the AKC nor the UKC.  Till then labradoodles are certainly not a breed.
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