Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Every Breed Is a “Designer” Dog



Nothing is as funny to me as dog breeders clutching their pearls and falling on to fainting couches over the rise of “doodles,” which they castigate as “designer dogs”.

Every Breed is, by definition, a designer dog. 

Do these folks not know this?

The “breed standard” is the design.  

It’s written down.  

There are even measurements and drawings.  

The dogs are literally made to order.

And Poodle crosses?  Poodles ARE a cross!  

They were made from their antecedents, the various types of “water dogs” now known as The French Barbet, the Irish Water Dog, the Portuguese Water Dog, the Pudlepointer, the Lagotto Romagnolo, the English Water Spaniel, the Wetterhoun, the Cantabrian Water Dog, and the Tweed Water Spaniel.

Poodles come in three sizes, Standard, Miniature, and Toy.  

How many breeds came out of those three sizes?   The Bichon Frisé, the Havanese, the Coton de Tulear…. we could go on, but you get the idea.  

And what have they created now??

Oh. My. GOD!  A Poodle-doodle!  

Is there no stopping these designer dog people?!

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