I wish we had a tag that said, “doodles, amirite?”

[thankfullness]

@tippymoondawg FYI "with her whole chest" means she said it with the confidence that she was 100% correct. Not that the dog had a big chest. I just realized that may be a local saying we have here.

 

[tippymoondawg]

@thankfullness Ah, I had never heard that one before. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[thankfullness]

@tippymoondawg No problem! I sometimes forget not everyone knows every bit of slang from everywhere!

 

[imagebeastmarkbeast]

@thankfullness Considering in in 80s my family had the ever popular cockerpoo they've been around a lot longer just not called doodles. I do know our lovely Pumpkin was a sweet boy, nothing even close to the manic doodles of today

 

[thankfullness]

@imagebeastmarkbeast I feel like a lot of the poodle mixes from years ago really were smaller too. A family friend had a pekingese/poodle mix when I was in elementary school. Now they just get bigger and bigger and more unstable. It's sad.

 

[imagebeastmarkbeast]

@thankfullness It does seem they are going for bigger and bigger.

 

[fudge]

@imagebeastmarkbeast Someone at my work was showing a picture of a saint Bernard doodle on insta and saying how she wanted one. I popped up with how much work it is to keep a dog that big Instagram friendly and how bad a lot of doodle temperaments are. Hopefully discouraged her from getting one.

 

[imagebeastmarkbeast]

@fudge I hope it did discourage her. Our Gurgi is a sweet temperament, no signs of crazy and very easily trained but that is pure luck. I never would have sought out a husky standard poodle mix.

 

[thankfullness]

@fudge A friend of mine went from a small mix of some kind to a bernadoodle. "They said he was a mini". He's over 100 pounds of drooling crazy. Luckily I don't groom large dogs any more because I have a hard time saying no to friends

 

[lizamarie]

@ozd Ah yes, my fully grown at least four year old dog that immediately grew four inches in the first couple of months and my vet said ‘maybe a year’.

We did not want a puppy. That was not an adult dog.

 

[smileyjan]

@lizamarie Me too!! Got my “40 pound adult” dog from the shelter (to be fair, she was a foster fail and I would have kept her no matter what, but she’s my first dog and that’s what they told me), only to find out that she was a six month old teenage puppy. Now she weighs 89 pounds.

 

[annalee]

@cmotorsportsministries Yesterday a client called and told me they wanted their Yorkie bathed. They brought me a longhaired doxxie.

 

[cmotorsportsministries]

@annalee Thank you, I needed that laugh.

 

[eaglenest61]

@annalee Did they ever question why their Yorkie was built like a limo?

 

[emmacaroline]

@eaglenest61 Stop! Hahahaha

 

[leoriofarel]

@annalee

 

[gibson]

@annalee I once had a 50lb (also obese) Coton de Tulear. Dad insisted he was a Coton

 

[colamex]

@gibson Someone brought me a 100lb "dachshund" once. It was a mastiff mix.

 

[marvmars]

@gibson We went to puppy school with my dog, an a family insisted they had a border collie. It was a staffy mix. Looked NOTHING like a collie. The trainer was like, yeah - that’s not a collie guys

 

[thankfullness]

@marvmars We had a chow come in. Owner insisted she was a purebred border collie. Luckily she was a very sweet girl. But no way was there any collie in this dog.