Dog Rescue - for Adoption Dogs and Puppies for Sale Only Ads With Pictures Compare - 0 items No items to compare Large dog kennel for sale, H 41",W 49",D42". Good condition, could be smartened up with a lick of paint! NEW YORK When someone plunks down $2,500 for a dog, you might think they're investing in a purebred pup, its pedigree stretching back generations. But not Cecile Desmond of Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She was happy to part with that much cash for Percy, a shaggy creature that some hound snobs at this month's Westminster Kennel Club dog show might label a mutt.Okay, not just any kind of mutt, but a "Labradoodle," a cross between a poodle and a Labrador retriever."I was focusing on the fact he was non-shedding," recalls Desmond, a real estate attorney. "My son has allergies and asthma, and I was concerned that he'd be allergic to a dog."More than three years later, Percy the pricey pooch has lived up to his non-shedding promise. Desmond and her family couldn't be happier.

And it turns out that when you cross poodles with other popular breeds, you get much more than trading runny noses for funny breed names.Poodle mixes, or "Doodles," seem to be wagging their tails and barking with glee, even in the aftermath of the Great Recession.U.S. kennel clubs do not keep sales figures for mixed-breed dogs, but if there's one hot category in the canine set, doodles are it. "Doodles are 100 percent here to stay," says Wendy Diamond, an animal rescue advocate and founder/editor of Animal Fair magazine.And that is in a U.S. pet industry that generated an estimated $50 billion in 2011, up 10 percent from 2009, according to the American Pet Products Association. Even so, don't expect to see doodles strutting at the February 13-14 Westminster Kennel Club show. Because doodles are mixed breeds, Westminster doesn't recognize them; ditto for the American Kennel Club (AKC), which at this point recognizes 174 varieties dating to its 1884 founding - but not doodles."It's a trend people have bought into who want something different," says AKC spokeswoman Lisa Peterson.

As for why doodles aren't accepted as breeds in their own right, "Designer dogs do not breed pure to type, and each of the offspring will: One may be tall, one may be small, one may have a poodle coat, one may have a Labrador coat."Goldendoodles (a golden retriever mix) and Labradoodles constitute a new wave of designer dog that has leapt in popularity since 2000. They join more established poodle mixes such as cockapoos (cocker spaniels) and schnoodles (schnauzers).Doodles now fetch as much as $3,000 per puppy for many reasons: their shaggy, cute looks; their high energy and playfulness; and their robustness (known in animal genetics as "hybrid vigor") that comes from crossing two distinct stocks to get the best of both breeds. "A lot of people don't want a poodle, because it's the pedigree with a pedicure," Animal Fair's Diamond says. "People who are into poodles are into arts, wine and culture. But when you cross that with a Labrador - and guys who are into Labradors are into sports - you get a fabulous mix and a fabulous dog."

Folks buying doodles and betting on the poodle's non-shedding coat may not always get what they want. All My Sons Moving Greenville Sc ReviewsBut Harrison Forbes, a nationally recognized dog trainer and animal behaviorist, counters that "the coat of the poodle is a very strong dominant gene."Montclair Outdoor Patio Furniture Dining Sets & PiecesHe adds: "No dog is hypoallergenic truly, but it's not like mating a bulldog with a Great Dane; Pull Chain Toilet Conversion Kitthat could be a disaster. Breeding with poodles has been a really big success. It's turned out to be a very good mix."It's also been very good to established doodle breeders, who screen prospective buyers carefully. "We have a questionnaire that people fill out in advance, so we can match the right puppy to the right people," says Erica Wagenbach, who breeds goldendoodles with her husband at Sunshine Acres in Wolcott, Indiana, halfway between Chicago and Indianapolis.Michael Wagenbach utilizes his background in genetics (he worked with seed beans in college at Iowa State), "and we thought there was a lot to be offered in breeding hybrid dogs-to enhance the health and longevity

, promote sound temperament and improve the genetics," Erica says.As doodle breeders go, the Wagenbachs are old hands. When they started in 2002, "only a handful of people were doing this. Now there's been an explosion, in part because they are such wonderful dogs."Doodles certainly aren't cheap. A Wagenbach farm pup might fetch anywhere from $500 to $3,000, and raising one includes expenses dog owners know too well - from regular veterinarian visits to dog food, pet supplies and obedience training. Desmond says her doodle runs up $200 to $400 in annual vet bills, and goes through one $40 bag of dog food every three to four weeks.The Wagenbachs won't release sales figures, not wanting to encourage unscrupulous breeders with a puppy mill mentality. Judy Hahn, who runs the Gleneden puppy farm in Berryville Virginia (about 65 miles west of Washington, DC), says she sold between 35 to 50 Labradoodles in the last year, for an average price of $1,800 each."We screen our dogs for genetic problems and take the same care in breeding that people take with top show dogs," Hahn says.

She may take the breeding seriously, but it's all fun when she sponsors annual "Doodle Romps" in the fall, where Gleneden puppies and their owners return to the farm."It's like a family reunion," she says. "They just run and play Frisbee and we've never had an altercation between any of the dogs, which says a lot."She does have a warning for potential doodle owners, though: "This is not a dog for couch potatoes. they like water, they like boats, they like to go to the park. It's a go-anywhere, do-anything breed."(Editing by Lauren Young and Andrew Hay)The requested URL /puppy.php?breedId=65&typeId=2 was not found on this server.Q: Have you heard about the new additions to the New Jersey bird law? They ban the production of hybrids within the state. Previous legislation made it necessary to obtain a permit to keep birds either as pets or as breeders. This is similar to the requirements for dogs in most states. New Jersey has now added a regulation that would make the production of hybrid birds cause the revocation of this permit.

I have a friend who has a pet dusky conure and a jenday conure in the same cage. They bonded, and the dusky would begin mutilating itself if separated from the jenday. Since this woman’s primary goal was to make her feathered friends happy, she allowed them to live in the same cage together. Before too long, the female went to the bottom of the cage, laid some eggs and began to sit on them. After realizing that they were determined to breed no matter what the conditions, she gave them a nest box, and in a short time they had a few babies. She sold the babies to individuals who knew they were hybrids and agreed never to use the birds for breeding. The New Jersey wildlife police found out about this and claimed she was committing a horrible act that was similar to breeding a chimpanzee to a human. She was ordered to split up the pair or face the loss of her permit and the confiscation of her cherished friends. Rather than lose her birds, she has split them up. She watches as her birds, who will not accept mates of their own species, tear out their feathers in frustration.

These are common birds that by no means are endangered! I have always been against hybridization as a purposeful endeavor, but surely in cases like this, no harm can be caused. Don’t you think that this law has gone a bit too far? A: This “law” is one of the greatest infringements on personal rights to have ever been enacted against aviculturists. What almost everyone does not realize is that this is not a hybrid issue. Under the disguise of an anti-hybrid stand, the New Jersey official that has pushed through these amendments to the existing New Jersey bird laws has set a precedent that can be used to take away the rights of anyone to keep birds. The precedent that it sets is the idea that the State’s desire to “protect” blood lines supersedes the individual rights of its citizens. Never before in the history of our country has the suggestion that the State has the right to pass legislation concerning the mixing of bloodlines been considered constitutionally possible.

In fact, the entire concept strikes a blow at the very foundation of our free society. Any society that allows such repressive legislation to stand, regardless of how noble its original intent, is arming a bomb that will one day blow up in its face. Once a citizenry accepts the concept that the State has the right to dictate what bloodlines are legally permitted to mix, it has marked the beginning of the end of many of its freedoms. This concept is at its best ludicrous and at its worst a complete horror. At the least, those that are purists concerning the breeding of dogs would push to include the prohibition of mixing breeds. They would be supported by some of the powerful organizations that are already pushing for a moratorium against the breeding of dogs and cats, due to their perception of an overpopulation. This would eliminate the creation of new breeds like the popular cockapoo. Can you imagine the criminalization of two neighbors who allowed their respective poodle and cocker spaniel to breed?

On the extreme serious side, there would be those organizations that would push to ban interracial marriages. Anyone who believes that such things cannot happen in an intelligent society is forgetting the lessons that history teaches (remember that the same concept was applied in Nazi Germany). Along with the amendment that prohibits the production of hybrids, there is also an amendment that states past amateur attempts at the production of Appendix I species (endangered species) is not sufficient criteria for the issuance of a permit to keep such a species. This gives state officials the right to, at any time, consider your attempts to produce endangered species as amateurish, or revoke or refuse to issue you a permit and confiscate your birds. In fact, it almost happened. A man who is arguably one of the foremost breeders of black-hooded red siskins was refused a permit by the New Jersey officials. Despite the fact that he was one of the leaders in this field for many years, an official decided that since he was not a member of the breeding group recognized by the AFA, he would not be issued a permit.

This was not the work of the AFA. In fact, the AFA has become an organization that fights for the rights of breeders regardless of whether or not they are members of their “recognized” breeding programs. This was an arbitrary decision by a government official that permits would not be issued to anyone who did not join the program that he wished to promote. In order to keep his birds from being confiscated, the man was forced to affiliate with the AFA affiliated program. Consider the fact that there are many wildlife organizations that are pushing to have the federal government place all species that are listed by international treaty as Appendix I to be listed in our Federal Register as endangered. This would, under present New Jersey regulations, allow the confiscation of scarlet, military and Buffon’s macaws. Consider the fact that all psittacines are now listed under international treaty as Appendix II (threatened) and many powerful wildlife organizations are pushing to have all Appendix II listings moved up to Appendix I.