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Originally Posted by Brooklynn  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 |
I would imagine that a non-shedding coat is recessive, no? So you could breed shedding out pretty quickly.
Personally, I don't see why people should stop creating breeds. We've been doing it since we domesticated wolves, we know more now about genetics than we ever have before. If someone has a serious interest and goes about it in the right way, I see nothing wrong with that.
Personally, I'd love to see a dog with:
- the smarts of a border collie.
- the coat of a short haired dashund.
- the personality of a lab.
- no major health problems.
- large, medium, and toy sizes.
- average life span 20 years+.
I do like poodles, as long as they have a plain haircut.
I agree generally that the designer dog phenomenon is unfortunate because it's creating way too many dogs, and there's no particular rhyme or reason to it.