Now I want to see pictures, because I just can’t picture what that cross would look like. Either really cute, or have a face only a mother could love.
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Can you imagine how hard those pups will be to train, especially for the average family? Neither of those breeds scream “easy and compliant” to me. 
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Based on the low income neighbourhood that the ad came from I doubt either parent was purebred. It could definitely be an oops litter, or a planned backyard “let’s make money off our dogs”.
@jvanrens I tried to find the ad again to screenshot it but it must have been taken down. Probably due to Facebook rules, I doubt that many people reached out for a puppy.
Most of the pups were black with white feet, one picture of a brindle pup. Right now they look like lab mixes, but I imagine they’ll start looking stockier and “bully” as they mature.
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I don’t know if this is a designer breed - doesn’t that require a cutesy name? - but have to share the latest forehead slapper mix: Aussie / Newfie / Cattle dog. It’s a double forehead slapper because the friend contemplating it is an Aussie person who wants an Aussie sized dog. WHy would you breed that mix? No clue. Why are we contemplating it then? Super cute puppies. Isn’t that redundant?! Well, if anyone can make it work, she can.
Bigger balls of furry energy and neurosis, hooray!
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And the shedding. Sooooo much shedding!
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Drool an extra bonus!
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Shudder! My BC is finally shedding, and the fluff is falling out of her all over the house. If the smog doesn’t get too bad this afternoon I’ll take my container of training treats out to the back yard with a brush and work on her. She hates getting her fluffies messed with. The thought of a Newfie/Aussie/cattle dog cross shedding is alarming. Death to vacuum cleaners alarming.
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Before I got my (smooth!) Collies, I used to get up in the morning and hop on a treadmill. Once the Collies arrived, I’d get up and vacuum instead. 
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When my two late corgis were blowing their undercoats I could easily fill a garbage bag with the hair that came off them!
It was easier to pay a groomer to bathe them and give them a blow out than it was to deal with weeks of that torture. 
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The shedding issue is one reason why I got a terrier - way less shedding than most other breeds! No tumbleweeds of fluff everywhere like you get from long-coated breeds, nor are there short hairs embedded in my sofa, bedspread, carpets and rugs, etc. like what happens with Corgis, GSDs, and many other short haired breeds.
I do have her stripped and clipped every 4-6 weeks, though, so traces of dog hair are hard to find in my house. 
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My Pyrenees mix is an absolute jerk about brushing, a mix between it’s a game to him and don’t do that, I’ll bite ya! It’s like, we have to do this, you’re the one with twenty pounds of floof, bud…
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1 corgi + 2 Maine coons = upstairs roomba + downstairs roomba
Also 1 DSH and DLH but they are such rank ammies when it comes to shedding, it barely counts.
also, also I dream about stairs Roomba. It’s second only to Avoid Accidents Roomba on my wish list.
As for breeding the 2 most high drive neurotic herding types to the big dog that only has a casual acquaintance with listening to the owner… PLUS DROOLING HAIR CLUMPS… sounds like a dream come true. Can’t imagine why there are 100’s of them out there. [/sarcasm off]
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I had an Akita-Collie mix who we used to joke had a triple coat. I was once about 15 minutes into bathing him when I realized I hadn’t even gotten to his skin yet. He was a Quebec dog, and when I moved down to NC he and his Chow-Golden Retriever mix brother (another HUGE coat, wth was I thinking??!?) were miserable in the heat, so we ended up shaving them. It was great. They looked silly, especially since we left their feet and the tip of their tails long, hah hah, but all of us were so much happier when the temps went up!
Years later, we (gasp!) clipped more dogs- we had a Border Collie mix of some sort and a rough coat Saint, and we shaved them down every summer, which they both very much appreciated. I have to say that everyone’s coat always grew back perfectly every year.
Our worst shedder now is our short haired Boxer mix, although the lowrent doodle and the Ultramix scruffy dog both put in a good effort. The short haired guy sheds all the time, with brief, lovely periods of a few weeks while he rests and readies himself for another tiny white hair coat-blowing. So.much.tiny.white.hair.
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Ugh yup that’s a forehead slapper. My current dog is supposedly an Aussie x Bernese mix. I got her when she was 1.5yo and her first owner was looking to rehome her. She’s like a tall Aussie with all the floof, needs lots of mental stimulation so she doesn’t bark, but unfortunately never really had the stamina to be a good running buddy for me. Love her to death, but now that she’s nine we spend hours a day walking to keep her happy, takes a lot longer than going for a run or a bike ride 
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My floof monster that despises brushing equally despises the clippers, it’s such a joy… I try to clip the little mats behind his ears in such a way that it doesn’t look like he lost a fight with a lawn mower and he just isn’t having it ~sigh~ I guess if he wants to be difficult he can deal with looking stupid.
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My co-worker has a Bernese Mt Dog and he is the laziest thing ever. It’s a constant source of entertaining stories of how they had to wait in various places to regain the stamina to get home. He’s pretty good in winter, so I believe a lot is just that heavy coat. I think it would be a tough breed to mix with for a running partner.
Absolutely, I knew when I got her that she wouldn’t be a good running partner, but she needed a home. The coat is a big factor, she’s a totally different dog in the winter. She’s happiest when it’s around 5C (40f) or below. I don’t run much in the winter, but I do cross country ski so she’s able to come with me for that.
She’s really the perfect dog for someone who is active at a slower pace. But definitely not a “walk around the block once” type of dog, the aussie brain is too busy for that. My next dog will be a GSP, I’d rather run or bike for an hour than walk. And I’d like to have a dog to hunt over again.
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My semi-elderly Aussie doesn’t noticeably shed, but he grows a coat like a hair sheep that aspires to be a felted wool hat even with an aggressive brushing regimen, so I finally threw up my hands and shaved him down with a 7 blade. He’s kind of a neurotic guy who’s ridiculously sensitive to noises and vibration, but he feels so much better clipped that he now stands for clipping without being held. As an added bonus it makes him look like a puppy which attracts all the attention, so it’s an all around win in his book, lol
A video popped up on my FB feed the other day of a groomer trying to save the coat of a “woolly malamute”.
The dog was one of those saved by one of the Chinese dog rescues, and he was clipped prior to his journey, and I guess they new parents were trying not to do a second clip on the dog, but it was literally an all day job to wash, blow out, brush out the dog, and she was clipping of the truly matted areas like behind the ears, underarms and butt crusties.
In my life, I’ve never seen so. much. hair. Never.
Eta found the link!
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