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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  But you could still breed shedding out, no? You'd just have to breed carefully. At some point, we'll be able to read canine genomes and this will all be moot. 
Anyway, interesting thread after an inauspicious start. I really don't see what's wrong with encouraging people to look at rescues. |
not if you keep breeding in the Lab...a Lab will always shed. I could see if once you breed a labradoodle to labradoodle and so on maybe but the lab is always going to be a shedder plain and simple and somewhere down the line you will get one with a shedding coat. I can buy for it being a service dog and building on their strengths but for allergies I just can't see it...there are non shedders that fit the bill for that aspect of someone that suffers from allergies...that would be just like bringing in a cotton coated yorkie into the breeding program somewhere down the line you will get it again.
Donna