Mini Goldendoodles. The Ultimate Mini Goldendoodle Dog Manual. Miniature Goldendoodle book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training.

By George Hoppendale and Asia Moore

The Ultimate Mini Goldendoodle Dog Manual has the answers you need when researching this happy, energetic medium-sized hybrid that is a friendly and loyal family companion.

Learn about the Mini Goldendoodle and find out whether or not this highly intelligent canine will be the best choice for you and your family.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Zoodoo Publishing
• Release date: Apr 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781788650519

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About the Authors

George Hoppendale is an experienced writer and a true animal lover. He enjoys writing animal books and advising others how to take care of their animals to give them a happy home.

Asia Moore is an animal lover, professional Dog Whisperer, Cynologist, experienced Author and Manager for Dogalize North America, the free social media App for dog lovers, that puts all the things you want and everything you need for you and your dog conveniently together in one place.

Asia lives on Vancouver Island, off the west coast of British Columbia, in Canada, and believes that with the right training, all humans and dogs can live together in harmony.

She and her dog whispering detective team, which includes an 8-year-old Shih Tzu named Boris, train humans and rehabilitate canines by teaching dog psychology to human guardians, in order to prevent or help alleviate problem behaviors that arise through common as well as unusual misunderstandings between humans and their canine counterparts so that everyone can live a happy and stress-free life together.

Visit Asia and her dog whispering team online at:

www.K-9SuperHeroesDogWhispering.com

Chapter 1: Introduction

It’s important to gather as much information as possible before you take the plunge to share your home with a furry friend.

The Ultimate Mini Goldendoodle Dog Manual will answer the questions you may have when researching this hybrid canine. If you are considering sharing your home with the active and intelligent Golden Retriever/Poodle mixed breed, this Manual is for you.

Learn all about this designer canine, including facts and secrets about both breeds, and how to care for every stage of the Mini Goldendoodle’s life.

This Manual contains all the information you need, from choosing a breeder and finding the perfect puppy to how to care for an aging dog.

As well, you will learn about transitioning through house breaking, adolescence, daily care, health problem inherent in each parent breed, feeding, grooming, training, first commands and hand signals and end of life, so that you can make an educated decision when deciding whether or not the intelligent and energetic Mini Goldendoodle designer dog is the breed for you and your family.

As well, this manual contains valuable information, tips and tricks that can easily be applied to any breed of canine.

Chapter 2: The Mini Goldendoodle Hybrid

The Mini Goldendoodle is a cross between a Golden Retriever and a Miniature Poodle, where one parent is a purebred Golden Retriever and the other parent is a purebred Miniature Poodle.

It can also be common practice for those intentionally breeding a mixed canine to breed multi-generational Mini Goldendoodle’s where a 50% Golden Retriever and a 50% Poodle will be bred back to another Mini Goldendoodle in order to attempt to establish a more uniform look.

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Although the Golden Retriever is a large breed dog and they were originally bred with a Standard Poodle, because the Poodle is bred in three distinctively different sizes, the Goldendoodle could be a Golden Retriever bred with a Standard, Miniature or Toy Poodle.

This book is focusing on the Mini Goldendoodle, which will usually stand between 14 and 19 inches (35.5 and 48.2 centimeters) and weight between 25 and 45 pounds (11 and 20 kilograms).

When two purebred canines are bred together, in the past they were simply referred to as mutts. Now, when two separate breeds are intentionally crossed or mixed together, they are often referred to as designer or hybrid dogs.

The most obvious mark of a designer or hybrid dog' is that the resulting puppies are named with what is referred to as a portmanteau word, which is a word that is a combination of two or more words, syllables or sounds that have been taken from the names of the two or more purebred parents, that becomes the new name of the designer breed.

The term hybrid or designer dog began during the late 20th century, when breeders first began to intentionally mix Poodles with other types of purebred canines with the intent of creating offspring that would retain the hypoallergenic Poodle coat, as well as traits considered desirable from other popular breeds.

Therefore, in order to better understand this hybrid dog, we need to first consider the traits of both breeds separately.

Although cross breed dogs are not recognized by purebred registries, such as the American Kennel Club (AKC), they are recognized by the International Designer Canine Registry (ICDR), where the Mini Goldendoodle designer dog is generally considered to be a small breed.

When purchasing a hybrid or designer breed canine, you need to keep in mind that while purebred dogs have been carefully bred for many generations to be recognizable by their consistently uniform look, size and temperament, puppies that are produced from combining one breed with another, such as in the case of the Golden Retriever and Poodle, may not inherit the same consistent traits from the breeding parents.

This means that puppies born in the same litter can have an appearance that is remarkably different from each of their other siblings, and it can also mean that each litter produced by this type of pairing may be unique.

While the appearance and size of the Mini Goldendoodle will largely depend upon the appearance and size of both parents, which could be a giant, standard or miniature Golden Retriever or a toy, miniature or standard sized Poodle, the larger hybrids tend to be less common.

The Mini Goldendoodle hybrid can take on more of the physical appearance and traits of the Golden Retriever parent or more of the physical appearance and traits of the Poodle parent.

Taking into consideration the weights and sizes of both parent breeds, when measured at the shoulder, the Mini Goldendoodle will stand between 14 and 19 inches (35.5 and 48.2 centimeters) and weigh between 25 and 45 pounds (11 and 20 kilograms) more or less, depending on the size of both parents.

No matter which side of the parenting combination the puppies take after, the Mini Goldendoodle will be a high energy, intelligent dog who will love to run and play and will excel at whatever activity their guardian has the time to teach.

1. Golden Retriever

Originally this dog was bred in Scotland, where the breed standard is heavier and stockier than the usual variety of Golden Retriever found in North America.

The improvement in firearms during the 1800s was largely instrumental in the development of the Golden Retriever as we know this breed today.

With the improved shooting capacity of guns that were more accurate over a longer distance, came a problem for retrieving downed waterfowl or other birds over a greater distance of more difficult terrain, which resulted in many downed birds being lost in the field.

When it became evident that the pointer breeds were ineffective at the type of retrieval work that was required, Scottish enthusiasts began creating a specialized dog with the original breeding program beginning with crossing a yellow colored retriever with the Tweed Water Spaniel, which is now extinct.

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The careful breeding program also included the Irish Setter, the St. John’s Water Dog (of Newfoundland), the blonde colored Bloodhound, and two more black coated retrievers to create the ultimate active and powerful retriever that also had a gentle mouth.

Approved breed colors, according to competition standards noted by the American Kennel Club (AKC), indicates that the Golden’s coat is a rich, lustrous golden of various shades.

A dog displaying a very dark or a very light coat will be disqualified in the conformation show ring. This means that while cream-colored coats may be allowed, black, mahogany red or white coats are considered to be unacceptable.

While the UK Kennel Club also disallows a dark colored dog from conformation competition, they too will permit a dog with a cream colored coat to compete in the show ring.

This highly intelligent, friendly and sturdy dog with a muscular body, long, feathered tail, long ears, and a water-resistant top coat is very fond of swimming, likely due to their long working history as a game bird retriever.

The Golden Retriever double coat has a straight or slightly wavy, water resistant topcoat with a softer insulating undercoat that will shed moderately throughout the year.

A Golden Retriever stands between 21½ and 24 inches (55 and 61 centimeters) at the shoulder, can weigh between 60 and 75 pounds (27 and 34 kilograms) and a healthy dog will have an average lifespan of 10 to 12 years.

The water-loving Golden is athletic, energetic, playful and most usually friendly and gentle to everyone, including other dogs and animals and all ages of children.

This versatile dog’s high intelligence and extreme eagerness to please means that the Golden is often a top performer in many canine sporting arenas, such as the Agility or Obedience competition ring.

As well, the Golden’s natural retrieving skill makes for a highly competitive Flyball or Field Trial participant and their superior swimming ability ensures that this breed will be a tough competitor to beat in the dock jumping arena.

Interestingly, Golden Retrievers were the first three dogs to win the coveted American Kennel Club title of Obedience Champion.

While the Golden Retriever’s friendly to all temperament does not make them good watchdogs, their intelligence and eagerness to please means that this canine is often used for many essential and very important jobs, including guide dogs for the blind, rescue dogs for natural disasters such as earthquakes or terrorist attacks, bomb and drug sniffing at airport terminals, and water lifesaving.

The American Kennel Club (AKC) recognized the Golden Retriever as a registered breed during 1925, and they were recognized as an official purebred canine in the United Kingdom some 22 years earlier, in the year 1903.

While the Golden Retriever is an extremely enthusiastic, intelligent, easy to train dog with a large personality, that can be high energy, they are also gentle around children and older people.

This is an intelligent dog that enjoys activity of any sort and can excel in canine sports such as Agility and Obedience, Field Trials, Flyball, Water Retrieving or Dock Diving.

This purebred canine is especially valued for being extremely social toward humans, in combination with their calm and patient demeanor and eagerness to learn, which is why this dog is highly sought after as a service, guide or search and rescue canine.

If the Golden Retriever has any faults at all, guardians need to be always aware that this dog’s keen eagerness to please and intense focus on the task at hand, coupled with their love of work, means that they do not know when to stop, and will work tirelessly until they literally collapse from exhaustion.

This is a dog that needs wide-open spaces where they can run, play and fetch. The Golden will love to go running or jogging and hiking with their guardians and if there is a body of water nearby, you may have difficulty keeping them out of it.

2. Poodle

The friendly, intelligent and active Poodle is one of the smartest dogs in the canine purebred lineup.

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This fun loving canine was originally a working dog bred and developed in both Germany and Russia for field hunting which involved retrieving downed waterfowl in the water.

While still other claims of Poodle origin have been attributed to Denmark and the ancient Piedmont in Northern Mesopotamia, one thing that is certain is that today’s modern Poodle was a descendant of the now-extinct French Water Dog, the Barbet, and possibly the Hungarian Water Hound.

The Poodle is believed to be one of the oldest hunting breeds used for water retrieval.

The reason the breed is referred to as the French Poodle is because the breed was standardized in France where it then became the national dog of France.

What many people don’t realize is that the Poodle has been well known for very much longer than 400 or 500 years and may be one of the oldest breeds of canines known to man.

The ancient ancestral Poodle with the Lion Trim haircut appeared on ancient Greek and Roman coins during the time of Emperor Augustus in approximately 30 A.D.

As well, the Poodle was revered in pictures that were carved on many monuments, tombs and Palace walls and there is historic evidence of the intelligent Poodle seen in medieval manuscripts of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

As the Poodle became well known as a distinct breed, they were bred down in size to become more of a companion dog, which resulted in the creation of the Miniature and Toy sizes of the breed.

Poodles have been used for a variety of jobs in history as hunters and retrievers, circus dogs, court and companion dogs for the rich and powerful. The Miniature Poodle was often used as a truffle dog for sniffing out the truffle used in French gourmet cooking.

Despite the Poodle’s origins as a hunting and retrieving breed, they became well known for their abilities as performing dogs, and were widely distributed due largely to traveling gypsies who favored the Poodle above all others as a performing circus dog.

As a working retriever, the Poodle was originally considered an off-square breed, because their body was longer than it was tall, which is similar to most of today’s retrieving breeds.

However, as the highly intelligent Poodle was such a superior circus act performer, which made them ever more popular with the traveling gypsies, with careful breeding practices, their body shape began to change to increase their ability for faster agility which was not possible with the longer retriever body shape.

As a result, the original, longer Poodle body became more of a square shape to improve the dogs’ spinning and hind leg acrobatic capabilities.

The three sizes of recognized American Kennel Club (AKC) Poodle breeds (toy, miniature and standard), rather than being judged by weight, are instead judged by height.

The toy Poodle usually stands less than 11 inches (28 centimeters) and weighs between 6 and 9 pounds (3 and 4 kilograms).

The miniature Poodle generally weighs between 15 and 17 pounds (7 to 8 kilograms) and stands between 11 and 15 inches (28 to 38 centimeters) when measured at the withers (top of the shoulder).

The miniature Poodle must be over 10 inches and 15 inches or less at the highest point of the shoulder in order to compete in the show ring as a miniature Poodle.

The standard Poodle generally stands over 15 inches (over 38 centimeters) at the shoulder and weighs between 45 and 70 pounds (20 and 32 kilograms).

Statistics indicate that according to American Kennel Club registrations, the popular Poodle continues to rank highly in popularity, holding the #9 position amongst the top 10 out of 175 registered breeds.

3. History/Origin of the Mini Goldendoodle

While determining true origin of a specific breed of canine is always met with a certain degree of controversy and many different theories about the true origin of a breed, it is fairly clear that the first pairing of the Golden Retriever with the Poodle began some time during the 1990s when breeders in Australia and North America began intentionally cross breeding the Golden Retriever with the Standard Poodle.

This cross breeding was initially carried out in order to produce a dog that would be better suited as a guide dog for blind individuals who suffered from allergies.

While the Goldendoodle will usually be a loving, affectionate and sweet natured dog inside the home, that will follow you everywhere, depending on the particular dog, the hunting and retrieving heritage of either parent may take over when they get outside and see birds, rabbits, cats or rodents to chase.

There is no doubt that the melding of the Golden Retriever with the genes of the Poodle has produced a friendly, energetic and highly intelligent dog that will be more easily tolerated by those humans who have an allergy to shedding dogs.

As with any hybrid canine, while it is always the hope that the resulting puppies will take on the best traits of both breeds, always keep in mind that they could also take on some of the less appealing traits of both breeds.

4. Goldendoodle Secrets

The name Goldendoodle is a meshing together of the Golden of the Golden Retriever breed with the oodle of the Poodle breed to make up this hybrid dog name.

The Goldendoodle is also known as the Golden Poo, the Goldie Poo and the Groodle.

Since the year 2005, the Goldendoodle hybrid canine has been successfully used as a therapy dog, guide dog, and search and rescue dog.

While the original Goldendoodle was a Golden Retriever bred to a Standard Poodle, as the Poodle is recognized for three different sizes (Standard, Miniature and Toy) the Goldendoodle has also been bred in smaller sizes.

The word Goldendoodle first appeared on the Internet in 2001, when Blue Sterling started Goldendoodles.com to create a shared Doodle enthusiast community and to popularize the Golden Retriever-Poodle hybrid.

While there are now three distinctly different sizes of Goldendoodle, including Standard, Medium or Miniature, and sizes can range between 15 and 70 pounds (6 and 31 kilograms), this book is focusing on the Mini Goldendoodle.

Richter was the first Seeing Eye Goldendoodle, graduating from Guide Dogs of America in 1995.

The first known use of the name Goldendoodle is attributed to the Neelands family of the US in the year 1992. The world’s most expensive Goldendoodle was purchased by singer, Usher Raymond IV, in October 2012, at a New York City Pencils of Promise gala, a fund raiser that builds schools in impoverished nations, for the hefty price tag of $12,000.

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