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Originally Posted by a2luckygirl  Labs are great dogs- great service dogs! Service dogs are used for people who can have lots of medical problems.And allergies. They started crossing them with poodles to help people who needed service dogs, and suffered from allergies!
This is a good thing- Now I have heard this many times- if this is the reason- it's a good one! |
I will never understand why so many people think that by mixing a poodle with another dog, that it will automatically become hypoallergenic and non-shedding
If you take a shedding dog like a lab and mix it with a non-shedding dog like a poodle, you are basically getting a 50/50 chance of getting a shedding dog. I've seen lab/poodle mixes that had curly, non-shedding hair, and I've seen lab/poodle mixes that had straight, shedding hair. It's basically a crapshoot to what you'll get. It's really sad that so many believe they'll automatically get a non-shedding dog - tons and tons of these lab/poodle mixes get turned over to shelters because they end up shedding. This mix is NOT a good thing (not for the poor dogs that get abandoned anyway
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