[Ads-l] cavoodles et al.

[Mark Mandel]

I suspect that many of these names are created by people who've never heard
of such a standard and probably wouldn't care if they had.
"-oodle" simply sounds a lot funnier than "pood-".

MAM (cat person)

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:04 AM Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:

> Since hybrids are named with the father as the first of the combination,
> why
> don't we ever hear of the poodadors, the poodaliers, etc?
> Dave Hause
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Lighter
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:55 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: cavoodles et al.
>
> Yahoo! News:
>
> "There are cavoodles (cavalier king charles spaniel/poodle), groodles
> (golden retriever/ poodle) schnoodles (shnauser/poodle), and even roodles
> (rottweiller/poodle)."--
>
> Seems that the guy who created the labradoodle fears he's "created a
> Frankenstein."
>
> JL
>
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