Mixed-breed dogs are generally considered to be healthier than purebreds - but that is not true for the popular "designer dogs" like the Labradoodle and Cockapoo, recent research appears to show. "The ...

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You may love your adorable pet labradoodle, but the crossbreed's creator has likened the dog to "Frankenstein's monster." On a recent Australian podcast, he called the creation his "life's regret." ...

The rising demand for specialty dogs like doodles has prompted a boom in backyard breeders. And that is also the reason 21 so-called designer dogs were found abandoned in the woods. At the end of ...

Labradoodles — the small, family-friendly crossbreed dog beloved by many a celebrity — is far more poodle than Labrador Retriever, a DNA analysis has revealed. Researchers from the US studied more ...

The original breeder of the popular crossbreed Labradoodle says he regrets creating the breed – and the craze around it that followed – which he now calls "a Frankenstein monster." Speaking with ...

Odessa the labradoodle is far from your average lovable puppy. Therapy dogs are making experiences in the courthouse and hospital easier for vulnerable children Research has proven therapy dogs play a ...

He’s deemed the man who unleashed the designer dog craze, this wave of Maltipoos, puggles and shorkies. A Doberhuahua? Not quite. But from that new Super Bowl ad to Hollywood boulevards and nearly to ...

Often, when there is a road trip, pet parents worry about how their fur babies will feel during the journey. After all, the ...

Dogs, of course, are man's best friend. And how have we repaid our good buddies? By manipulating whom they mate with so that their offspring better suit our needs. Labradors, for example, are an ...

Tall, broad-shouldered and dressed in his distinctive combo of tweed jacket and cravat, Graeme Hall is recognisable to millions as the man who helps desperate pet owners in Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving ...

“I opened a Pandora box and released a Frankenstein monster,” said Wally Conron, who developed the mopheaded dog. By Emily S. Rueb and Niraj Chokshi The inventor of the labradoodle, the ubiquitous, ...