KimberLenes-LabraDoodles.co.uk
Title
Kimberlenes Labradoodles
Description
About Labradoodles
Don’t know about you, but after exploring Labradoodle sites on the Internet, we became rather confused. There was a lot of information that was contradictory and pretty short of scientific evidence. On this page we are trying to clarify that information and make a clear distinction between fact and opinion.
History
Everyone appears to agree on this! The Labradoodle was first bred in Australia as a Guide Dog for people with allergies in the 1970s. Wally Cochran is the person credited with their initial development during the 1980s. Television coverage of this new breed of dog instigated a large response from the general public and several dog breeders started breeding the Labradoodle commercially. You don’t have to have allergies to appreciate little to no dog hair being deposited around your home and the Labradoodle was quickly gaining popularity as a family pet. Without doubt these Australians are the most experienced Labradoodle breeders in the world and are a good place to start your research.
Breeding
‘Line’ breeding, which inevitably led to in-breeding in the past, has resulted in pure breed dogs inheriting a huge range of diseases and disorders. Many good breeders are attempting to combat this today with more responsible breeding strategies and pre-breeding health tests. However, they are still working with a limited gene pool, so can only really achieve damage limitation. Indeed, part of their strategy involves limiting their breeding dogs to those that pass various health tests (e.g. hip/elbow scores) thus effectively reducing the gene pool even further. Long term this will inevitably be counter productive.
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