Cockerpoo v Labradors

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Peartree

I know I haven’t been here for some time but it’s been busy in my house over the last year!
My daughter has had her first baby and we offered to have her young cockerpoo pup while she settled home with the baby. Because of complications we ended up having him for two weeks. Omg! I totally appreciate how easy labradors are to train compared to spaniels. Although he’s a cockerpoo his mum is a Fch line working cocker and he is a menace.
As he is an only and first dog he is micro managed and their life revolves around him. With three labs that isn’t possible, and although my dogs are managed as puppies they very quickly become trained. I also think that they are much more biddable than spaniels. I have never moved a dog off the kitchen table as much as I did this little monster. And even if I made sure that the chairs were pushed in so that he couldn’t jump up he would spend the next 20 mins carefully nudging one out with his nose until he could use it to get back up. I’m sure that he will be back here and Diesel will be back to rolling his eyes and generally my dogs asking when he’s leaving. 🤣. It’s a good jobs that Chip is cute!!AB07E0D2-C5A8-4D29-8C75-245F81B642AB.jpeg
 
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Atemas

Atemas

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@Peartree my son has a cockerpoo who is a bit wappy but I’ve noticed now at 2, he’s settling down and much more responsive. He does ‘eye’ up the table but responds to a ‘stay down’ if he looks like he’s going to jump. We recently had a big family party at theirs and I was very impressed with his behaviour. My son and DIL were pleased and relieved at how good he was that day - it was a big test for him being surrounded by so many big and little people. I prefer Labradors but I do love him
 
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Atemas said:
@Peartree my son has a cockerpoo who is a bit wappy but I’ve noticed now at 2, he’s settling down and much more responsive. He does ‘eye’ up the table but responds to a ‘stay down’ if he looks like he’s going to jump. We recently had a big family party at theirs and I was very impressed with his behaviour. My son and DIL were pleased and relieved at how good he was that day - it was a big test for him being surrounded by so many big and little people. I prefer Labradors but I do love him
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This is a one year old cockerpoo and as he lives in London, coming to our house is like coming to the dog equivalent of Disney Land. He is completely mental and never stops. We used to lock him in a small area of the hall for our sanity and the dogs! I think it’s going to be a long time until he is well behaved.
 
Selina27

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He looks a real cutey and sounds like he's clever too!

Peartree said:
he is micro managed and their life revolves around him.
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My daughter is a bit like this with her Sprollie. Actually quite a lot like this! I heard a snippet on the radio the other day about how the pet retail industry is booming, in large part down to the "humanisation" of dogs particularly by youngsters. Even my daughters boyfriend, a Welsh farmer, has little Reeva on a pedastel :cwl:

Good to hear from you @Peartree . How are the Labs getting on gundog wise?
 
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David said:
I feel your pain! My son's dog is a 1 year old cockerpoo and we look after her from time to time with our 20 month Labrador. Nightmare doesn't begin to describe it but great fun at the same time. 🤣
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I feel your pain. It makes me wonder why we complain about labradors. It’s over 40 years since I had a spaniel and it certainly wasn’t a working cocker. They never stop! My ndn has a girl
Poodle of the same age and she is so much more sane than Chip!
 
Selina27

Selina27

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Jelinga said:
one behaved exactly like a Cocker and the other exactly like a Poodle!
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That's so funny !!

I know Reeva is not a Cockerpoo but a Sprollie but in her you can see in her not just the physical bits of both -- spaniel ears, feet and chest, collie face and body - but also her behaviour is split down the line too! As a friend of mine put it she has both "the eye" and "the nose" - it's fascinating :heart:
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

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kateincornwall said:
I remember @Heidrun once saying that Labradors are born half trained whereas Spanners die half trained :mmm:
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OK, then I can never have a spaniel, because compared to my Rotties, Carbon seems to be stuck in a permanent state of "I COULD do what you want because I am very very smart...but I chose my gentleman's prerogative to NOT do what you want and ....wait...is that a piece of deleeeecious POO over there to eat?!"

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The only cockapoo I know is my friend Rose's in Ireland and he is a sedate and decorous true gentleman dog. Except when he sees his 'enemies' in town...then he goes doolally. 😉
 
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Emily_Babbelhund said:
Carbon seems to be stuck in a permanent state of "I COULD do what you want because I am very very smart...but I chose my gentleman's prerogative to NOT do what you want
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This is so Maxx! But that said, the thought of Maxx on a plane sends shivers to parts of my body that has never been shivered before :scared: so truly you have done a wonderful job with him
 
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