He’s lovely. And trying so hard to be the Good Dog.
Not long from now, you’ll be thinking how could ANYONE have dumped this lovely dog. 
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I think it’s so funny that a sweet,
affable doggy is called “Tiger”.
He sure looks happy.
Cheering for you and Tiger…
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Omg I love him! He seems so sweet and happy.
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I bet he becomes Tigger at some point, lol! 
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This makes me so mad. So many good dogs need homes and she is just adding to the problem. Shelters are now calling doodles Poodle mixes to help them get homes. I know Dan and Ronny in NC do that.
On a lighter note, Tiger is so happy and you are doing such a great job for him. And I love his wooo woos
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They produce upwards of 8-10 litters a year. 4-5 in the spring and then around Christmas. Pups are paid for prior to weaning. It’s run out of a big colonial suburban house. Husband is a doctor, wife is the breeder. They’re Australian? Labradoodles. I probably mistakenly called them Australian shepherd doodles. I’ve no idea what an Australian labradoodle is.
They do a brisk business.
Lakewood Labradoodles
Our county run animal shelter is in crisis mode. Free adoptions. The local humane society only takes owner surrenders. And they’re full. The local low cost SNIP program is in disarray and appears defunct since Covid. Most vets have been taken over by large corporate conglomerates. It’s a real shit show for dogs and cats that have fallen through the cracks.
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Off topic (sorry (@ThreeWishes)
This spring my parents came to visit and we went to a tourist town to do touristy things. Mr Yankee and I wanted to go into this one shop, so my dad and mom sat outside holding my Yankee Dog’s leash. A very sweet lady came over and asked if she could pat Yankee Dog. Much to Yankee Dog’s delight, my dad said sure. Sweet lady asked her name, as Yankee Dog was licking her face, and my dad replied “Killer”.
Sweet Lady paused for a moment at my dad’s ‘dad joke’ and then laughed. “Riiigghhht”. My dad was so proud of his joke. He re told the story three times on this trip lol.
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They have 17 sires and 27 !!! dams!!! And the puppies are $3,250.00 With 8 litters on the ground currently!! AARGGHHH!!! 
They totally made up an Austrailian Labradoodle.
They use some pretty heart string tugging verbiage. Calling all the sires, Dads and the dams Moms, and using baby instead of puppy.
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Oh the verbiage I read was even weirder when they were talking about the pairings of studs and females. Like they were having a wedding night.
And their driveway has like 7 slots with signs that say expectant parent parking with storks on them carrying babies. It’s surreal.
Edited to add they may have ramped up the litters since the last time I read the website. The studs and bitches have doubled plus.
It’s a high dollar puppy mill.
It’s just so weird to hear the pups squawking while trying to save this dumped dog. Talk about feeling like you’re spitting into a hurricane.
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The “breeder” sounds like a total nut. On the Guardian page they say that the dogs must master “sit”, seriously?! That’s the criteria for breeding? Pick and choose which health testing to do and teach the dog to sit. Oh and it’s never allowed to be off leash unless it’s fenced in.
Ugh. Spitting into a hurricane sounds about right.
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I ran across a local FB post from said breeder about 6 months ago trying to rehome a returned nearly adult dog for free. These dogs …they sell for $3000+. It sounded neurotic AF.
And basically if you are a guardian, you house,either their bitches or studs and allow them to come get them to breed more puppies until they’re done. Then they spay or neuter them for free. I think the cost is between 200 and $1000. For the privilege of housing their breeding dogs as your pet.
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There are reputable breeders out there who use guardian homes, I’m not against that if it’s done well. This obviously isn’t a reputable breeder though.
Guardian homes should be very carefully vetted by a breeder, and either the guardians or the breeder/trainer should be putting extra work into the dog to prove that it is indeed worth breeding.
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Agreed. Honestly I’m pretty sure the majority of their breeding dogs are offsite. And they only whelp at the house. So you have dozens of dogs they just bring in from the guardian homes to mate then bring the female back to deliver the pups.
This is disgusting. Like so gross. It should be illegal.
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What a racket! Of course the drone footage of the home is lovely. Those dogs are certainly paying the mortgage on that place. Where on earth are they housing 30-some dogs? There are red flags all over the place for savvy people, but let’s face it, most Americans just want a fluffy, trendy dog that they can brag about. They fit the bill for that!
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Reminds me of Crocket Doodles in South Carolina. They hide the true scope of their program but it is estimated that they have several hundred females used to produce FIFTEEN different doodle crosses spread across countless homes with zero oversight. They have billboards, spotify ads, etc. advertising puppies.
A horse person I know of through the grapevine was a “guardian” whelping puppies in a standalone garage with no AC in the middle of summer. Local pressure increased enough that she bowed out of being a home eventually but there’s clearly no monitoring for a program of that scope.
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Ugh.
My wonderful cattle farmer neighbor - wonderful in she let me talk them into getting all their barn cats TNR’d (I volunteer for a TNR/cat rescue and have a barn of my semi/ferals and their cats were coming over causing some minor issues) - has a Bernese/doodle cross from a breeder who is marketing them as “guardian dogs”. I found out that she will get spayed after having 3 litters that the breeder gets. I did not say anything (I think it was contract) but I wanted to! Someone I work with has a mini-Aussie not castrated yet - because the breeder made a contract deal with them to keep him intact for breeding.
Eons ago I was involved with breeding - and it sure has changed from high-quality dogs being raised by the owners/co-owner, getting their championship/points at shows before being bred.
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We have two poodle mixes that came from Amish puppy mills. One (along with his litter) was going to be killed because he doesn’t have the right hair- he has a wiry coat, not the curly, non-shedding one, and the other was with a bunch of other puppies of random poodle-x parentage, that were going to a dog auction because they hadn’t been sold and were getting “too old.”
There is a rescue in the area that gets in mostly southern dogs from kill shelters, but they will scoop up breeding dogs and puppies from the mills, adopt out the puppies, and put the adults into foster homes to teach them how to dog. Anyway, now that the bubble of the doodle market has burst, they are getting A LOT more of these poor animals.
We did not mean to end up with one, much less two, doodles, but when we were looking both times this is what popped up. My husband grew up with Standards, so we figured, why not? They need a home!
Our two are great dogs, but we put time into training and making sure they get their energy out and so on. Our younger one is 9 months old now, quite large, and he is FULL OF HIMSELF, which is normal, but in the wrong home he would be a monster. Too many of them are not trained and turn into wild child puppies, and then they end up dumped. When we got the first one an acquaintance of mine couldn’t believe we just paid a rescue fee for him, since her family had gotten a labradoodle for $3000. 
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Thinking of Tiger this morning.
Hope he’s doing OK after his
surgery.
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