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WHAT
IS AN ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LABRADOODLE?
The
Australian
Labradoodle is different from all other labradoodles.
In
the early days, the Australian Labradoodle was simply a cross
between a Labrador Retriever and a Standard Poodle. Dogs from this
cross typically were bred to each other over future generations,
whereby the Australian dogs are also know as "Multi-generational"
Labradoodles.
Then, in the late 1980's, Tegan Park and Rutland Manor, the two
founders of the Australian Labradoodle as we know it today, began
carefully infusing several other breeds into early generations of
their Lab/Poodle crosses, to improve temperament, coat,
confirmation, and size. The infused breeds include Irish Water
Spaniel as well as the American and English Cocker Spaniel. The
resulting labradoodles subsequently have been bred to each other,
continuing the multi-generational tradition.
Today, Australian
Labradoodles are wonderful, intelligent dogs with lush
coats that are more reliably low to non-shedding and allergy
friendly than other types of Labradoodles such as first generation
Lab/Poodle crosses, or first generation crosses bred back to
Poodles. Even when the other types of Labradoodles are bred on for
generations, the result is not an
Australian Labradoodle,
as the attributes of the infused breeds were not included in their
ancestry.
Courtesy of the
Australian Labradoodle Club of America |
