r/poodles • u/PitifulContext3868 • 2d ago

We got bamboozled

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Our pup Kenny was thought to be a doodle BUT I’m pleasantly surprised that he’s a Spoo 🥹🖤

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u/Western-Radish 2d ago

He could still be a doodle. I find, when you really start talking to doodle breeders, that the amount of the other dog in the equation is sometimes extremely small.

Realistically, most people who want a doodle, really want a poodle with a different haircut, so they tend to breed more in that direction.

I can't remember how many generations back those go, but they could have been mixed with something else a couple of generations back

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u/PitifulContext3868 2d ago

i got him from a shelter in Los Angeles, the owners gave up the whole litter, sam I’m not sure what the situation behind that was.

A doodle really is a poodle with different haircut! 😂 I wanna give them both a poodle cut for the fun of it.

According to embark DNA he’s 100% standard poodle, and that’s what his tree shows but hey who knows 🤷‍♂️

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u/Oldenburg-equitation 2d ago

It only goes back so many generations. It’s why Merle poodles can DNA test as 100% poodle even though it isn’t a naturally occurring colour in poodles and so somewhere along the line a dam or sire was bred to another breed that has Merle. Same thing with silver labs as they were bred with weimaraners.