milos_mommy
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Why not come out of the woodwork for this one?
My big one that's been building for awhile is that I feel that more dogs should be bred for pet qualities. Specifically for those qualities, and not as an offshoot to other goals (like conformation, or sports, or work). Things like: zero reactivity, a mile-long fuse that's hard to light for dogs and people, fantastic off switch. The last two areas I've lived have been big cities, and both have a lot of people looking for very specific, very tolerant dogs - dogs who need to be dead quiet for apartment living and able to lay under a table at a restaurant every day of the week in summer with 200 passing dogs touching noses to sniff, without specific work and costly training to make them that way - and honestly I just don't see many of those types of dogs coming out of breeders or rescues.
I don't even care what breed is the starting point, if doodles are it then doodles it is (though I meet a fair few reactive and/or fearful doodles...).
This surprises me, as I'm also from NYC and I feel as though so so so many shelter/rescue dogs here are capable of that!! I tend to think in other areas people might have a hard time finding those kinds of dogs in shelters because of the prevalence of working/farm/hunting dogs or just dogs that can be kind of unruly out in rural areas as pets, but I come across quite a few nearly bombproof rescue dogs, and far more that are easily manageable pets.