Talk:Labradoodle

Proper Treatment and Care

I recently purchased a Labradoodle which has proved to be rewarding in many ways. She is smart, quickly trained, and affectionate. The problem is that I am having is with groomers who want to make her look like a poodle. We love her long, full hair,but the groomers tell us horror stories about how she will go blind. People only let their hair grow for "shows", and two different groomers have wanted to cut hair around her eyes which completely alters her look. We want a labradoodle, not a poodle. I wish there was more information about this on the internet. We don't want our dog to be blind, but want her to look like a labradoodle.

   Then find another groomer and ask them to cut her like a portuguese water dog.

POV and Citations

Hey folks, this article has some great sourcing but lacks inline citation. In addition, several of the cited sources contradict the article itself. The following statement from the article for example: "Labradoodles are considered a good choice for people with canine dander allergies, since some have the same hypoallergenic coat as their poodle ancestors." This was sourced with the following footnote: "Labradoodles are not automatically hypoallergenic; to produce dogs with coats that do not aggravate allergies, they must be bred by a person competent in selective breeding who is well-versed in genetic testing.<nowiki>" And then, the footnote is sourced with an article that lists peer reviewed scholarly sources that hypoallergenic dogs don't exist. Annwfwn (talk) Annwfwn (talk) 12:58, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Indeed. Just as it states that Labradoodles are the 2nd smartest dog. But the source link doesn't even have them in the top 10. I think the LD breeder community is fudging the numbers on their product. YY 13:22, 20 September 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by YingYang2 (talk • contribs)

Nonsense

Labradoodles been around long before 1987 171.97.98.7 (talk) 21:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

In 1955, Donald Campbell wrote in his book Into the Water Barrier of his labradoodle called 'Maxie' ("I'd had him since he was a pup in 1949 and we call him a "Labradoodle" since he is a mixture of a Labrador and a Poodle, all black with thick, curly hair."). The earliest mention in the British Newspaper Archive is in 1953 when pedigree labradoodle puppies were for sale (Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press - 23 May 1953). Nedrutland (talk) 17:43, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Proposal to improve article flow and neutral tone

Hello everyone. I recently tried to copyedit this article to improve the flow of the text and make the tone more neutral and encyclopedic (particularly in the sections describing the breed's history and temperament, which currently read a bit heavily). Because I made a large replacement as an unregistered user, my edit was automatically reverted and flagged as vandalism. I completely understand why large anonymous edits are reverted, and I apologize for not bringing this to the Talk page first. My goal is strictly to improve the phrasing and readability. I have prepared a draft that keeps all the original references, templates, and factual information intact, but uses more natural English structure. Would anyone be willing to review my proposed version? I can paste it here or link to a sandbox. I would appreciate the guidance of more experienced editors so we can update the article properly. Thank you! ALD-alaa (talk) 21:08, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

The fact that you were an unregistered user is NOT why your edits were reverted. Your edits were non-sensical, linked to non-existent pages, contained circular links, broken templates and incorrectly indicated that the predominant name is Australian Labradoodle. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:24, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Spin off Australian Cobberdog?

I know the Australian Cobberdog article was just merged into this article, but the Cobberdog information now nearly outweighs the Labradoodle information, and the breeds are only share a relation via the original breeder - not via a direct lineage. Much of the Cobberdog information is not relevant to the Labradoodle. I'd propose re-creating the Cobberdog article and linking to it from this article. Astute8406 (talk) 08:54, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Thats a reason to trim the content, not split it off. It definitely wasn't a consensus to merge every part into it and I have begun trimming some content. Traumnovelle (talk) 19:09, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

I think the Cobberdog content is actually pretty valuable on its own, but is sufficiently different from the core labradoodle article that it'd be better off as a separate article. Cobberdogs are not labradoodles! Adi.darkblue (talk) 01:22, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

There was an AFD and there was a clear consensus that the cobberdog is not independently notable. The whole article was not supposed to have been merged, given the unreliability of the sources present. Traumnovelle (talk) 23:20, 29 September 2026 (UTC)