[nagdu] poodles/labradoodles

Tue Feb 3 21:47:41 UTC 2009

As far as using breeds besides labs, golden's, crosses, and shepherds, I 
heard that GDB did some trials, but has made a final decision not to expand 
their breed selection. As far as shepherds are concerned, my understanding 
is that the number of shepherds is dwindling, and they are not working to 
increase it, so there's a long waiting list if you insist on having a 
shepherd from GDB.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] poodles/labradoodles

I saw something in the GDB alumni news that said they were not offering
poodles anymore.  They had decided that the, um, input to output ratio was
not good enough.  Too many failures.

On the other hand, GDB said it wasn't training any more shepherds, but
there was a picture of a shepherd puppy in the Guide Dog News.  Beats me.

Tracy

> Tracy,
>
> I think Leader, Pilot, GDF and GDD, with possibly GDA in there as well,
> now
> actively offer Poodles as guides. I don't know if GDA and GDD and GDTX are
> still working with the Lab/Poodle crosses though. GDA had at least 1
> Golden/Poodle cross as well. We tried them and they never made it out of
> the
> puppy homes, not exactly a stable combo. <grin>
>
> It's interesting to read that many of the first dogs used as guides,
> usually
> trained by blind people, were Poodles. I wonder how the clipping was done
> back then?
>
>
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