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Sophiedoodle

Sophiedoodle

Location
Fife, Scotland
Jelinga said:
@Sophiedoodle, exactly what do you do, intrigued :)
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I work for an Australian Labradoodle breeder. Well, I’m actually the Trainee (soon to be fully trained!!) operations manager, so I am in charge of all the dogs and puppies welfare, the facilities hygiene and cleanliness, and the other people we employ.
I have worked there for 4 years now, first 2 years I worked at weekends and during school holidays as I was still in high school, I was 16 when I started working there. They then offered me a full time job which bailed me out of university :)wink: - I was going to go do Veterinary Nursing but I wasn’t really all that into going to uni, I just felt it was something I had to do to “follow the crowd”) and I’ve been working fully time since July 2017!
I love my job so much and even though it can be stressful for me at times due to lack of “boss” experience, I think I manage it well and every day I’m learning something new. It’s a lot of responsibility for my boss to put on a 20 year old, but I guess it shows they trust me and trust my judgement, which makes me happy :inlove:
 
snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
Funny story: on another group, someone was talking about Labradoodles and I mentioned how the Australian Labradoodle has cocker spaniel in it. Someone else said “wrong!”. Well, I know you had said they do, so I did the quickest of searches on Google and found lots of supporting articles.

She then said, “I’m Australian and a breeder of Labradoodles and we don’t do that! What you call an Australian Labradoodle isn’t what Australians call Labradoodles!”. I was like 🤷‍♀️ because it’s not something I profess to know anything about, but it made me chuckle nonetheless.
 
Emily

Emily

Location
Melbourne, Australia
snowbunny said:
Funny story: on another group, someone was talking about Labradoodles and I mentioned how the Australian Labradoodle has cocker spaniel in it. Someone else said “wrong!”. Well, I know you had said they do, so I did the quickest of searches on Google and found lots of supporting articles.

She then said, “I’m Australian and a breeder of Labradoodles and we don’t do that! What you call an Australian Labradoodle isn’t what Australians call Labradoodles!”. I was like 🤷‍♀️ because it’s not something I profess to know anything about, but it made me chuckle nonetheless.
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So, silly question, but is there both a "Labradoodle" and an "Australian Labradoodle"?

I don't think I've ever met a multicoloured Labradoodle before 🤔
 
Jacqui-S

Jacqui-S

Moderator
Location
Fife, Scotland
Lol. Sophie may correct me.
An Australian Labradoodle is a breed, not just a Labradoodle from Oz.
A Labradoodle is a cross between a poodle and a labrador (making it F1??)
An Australian Labradodle is a combination of Lab, poodle, Australian shepherd dog? And 2 breeds of spaniels and is way down the breeding track from simple F1 and F2s.
Now I've written this I'm SURE Sophie will hop in and correct me. When she's awake. I'm off to do my flu clinic.....
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Jacqui-S said:
Lol. Sophie may correct me.
An Australian Labradoodle is a breed, not just a Labradoodle from Oz.
A Labradoodle is a cross between a poodle and a labrador (making it F1??)
An Australian Labradodle is a combination of Lab, poodle, Australian shepherd dog? And 2 breeds of spaniels and is way down the breeding track from simple F1 and F2s.
Now I've written this I'm SURE Sophie will hop in and correct me. When she's awake. I'm off to do my flu clinic.....
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Interesting! I had no idea. I'd read about the whole F1 F2 thing, but didn't know there was more to it than that. I was assuming the parti-coloured dogs like Oreo got that from the same source as parti-coloured poodles, but maybe it's from the spaniel or Aussie mix?

@Sophiedoodle I'm also very impressed that you followed your own path and are having so much success in your field at such a young age. Even though it is hard work/a career for you, you obviously also enjoy it (an understatement) and have found your true calling. As someone who is 50 years old and still doesn't know what I want to be when I grow up, I'm in awe.
 
snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
Oh, I don’t think that’s true; I can’t see them on the list of breeds recognised by the AKC either. So they’re dogs with a known pedigree, maybe not F1, but not a breed.
Strangely, and something I didn’t know, was that the AKC allows any litter from registered purebred parents to be registered, so any F1 from registered parents could be AKC registered, but their offspring can’t. The F1 dogs are listed as “misc”.
 
Sophiedoodle

Sophiedoodle

Location
Fife, Scotland
A “Labradoodle” is a standard cross between a Labrador and a poodle.
An “Australian Labradoodle” is a cross between Labrador, poodle, American cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel, Irish water spaniel, and curly coated retriever. A bunch of gun dogs right?
They are a breed but no they are not recognised by the kennel club, and quite frankly, we don’t want them to be! Australian labradoodles are milti generational and so the breeding of them is very consistent. They will have consistently good quality coats, good temperaments etc.
 
Sophiedoodle

Sophiedoodle

Location
Fife, Scotland
Yes they have a known pedigree which makes them NOT a mongrel (I constantly have this argument with people and it really boils my blood at times!!!) I know they are a cross (mixed?) breed but they certainly are not mongrels.
 
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