Well, here is the newest addition to the Turley clan: Molly, our ten-week-old Goldendoodle.
As we try to find a gate long enough, we have been awed by Molly’s ability to break down of any barrier. She has learned to move chairs and even pull a door open. She is a love sponge and insists on being next to you at all times.
One of the strangest quirks is how she sleeps: on her back like a possum playing dead:
I have also found her passed out next to her bowl like some drugged out Hollywood starlet:
Putting aside her amazing skills as a safecracker and burglar, Molly has us all wrapped around her paw. While I wanted to name her Moxie, the kids overruled me so Molly it is. (Perhaps Moxie Molly as a nickname).
And another think. A lot of breeds have inherited problems, so a hybrid dogs like labradoodle (?) or goldendoodle are good ideas, as a step away from purebred inbreeding. Hybrid vigor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldendoodle
Charles,
One last thing: I did breed with intent, there’s really no excuse not to (except going school district where they teach “abstinence only”).
I have it on good authority that Goldendoodles are related to Snickerdoodles who are descended from laughing hyenas.
I know…I know. That joke was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h.
Grashow, we actually have taken in a rescue dog, also named Molly, who has had terrible medical issues that have caused enormous difficulties. Do not force a family with small children to take on these burdens because of an ideological and sanctimonious crusade.
Be positive. Praise those who take in rescues.
But leave Molly Turley and her adoring family out of it, please.
Compromise nickname = Moll (as in Flanders)
Sure. You say that now.
And yes, I did mean candy stores. Really. It wasn’t just a typo. Even though Sweat shops would make much more sense, and I’ve never actually referred to a candy store as a sweet shop before.
I really did.
Professor, a blawg is just like a really big family at the holidays isn’t it? You open the door and fer’sure sour old uncle Elmer is there with the rest of the family and you’re going to have to listen to his deflating, holie-than-thou lectures until you can palm him off on someone else or feed him enough wine to put him to sleep. A sense of humor is your best defense, good for you.
Your choice of pup (a lovely little girl) isn’t disturbing but you choice of protein is- Bambi’s mom, srsly? Oh my 🙂
Byron and JT,
You’re getting dogs confused with pretty every other domesticated species of plant or animal. It’s a little known fact that beagles don’t bread in captivity, every pet beagle on earth was captured in the wilds of England.
Goldendoodles on the other hand are built in South American sweet-shops by child laborers who were cloned from Nazi war Criminals and then forced to go through teleportation devices with insects. All the materials involved in their construction are summoned to this plane of existence via ancient evil rituals learned from bizarre pictographs found on the walls of a mysterious and cyclopian city in Antartica.
Charles:
if you own a dog it was created by cross breeding over centuries. All the dogs at the pound the same way. Or do you think a mongrel/Heinz 57 is created “naturally”.
Charles all dogs are created naturally, call me and I will explain how. I used to work for a vet so I know how puppies are created, it’s like sausage and then the Vlasic pickle stork delivers them after he/she sprinkles life giving pickle juice on them. Preferably from the Bread and Butter pickles because everyone wants a sweet puppy.
gyges,
In all fairness to Groucho and as some posters demonstrate, that’s not a comprehensive list of places too dark to read.
You mean goldendoodles are not found in the wild?! What really burns me up is that I asked for an Artic Fox or Gray Wolf precisely for that reason. We only eat venison and chew wild seeds because of our insistence on naturally occurring species. I was assured that herds of goldendoodles roam wild in France where they are rounded up by goldendoodle ranglers. I don’t know how to tell the kids.
Yes really – are you also in favor of eugenics? Why not have designer humans?? It’s the same thing – Breeding with INTENT!!
Gyges:
can you explain how this dog does not occur “naturally”? With your knowledge it should be “enlightening” 🙂 . Charles has confused me with that statement.
I am under the impression that all breeds of dogs were created by humans over centuries of cross breeding for desired traits.
Charles,
“The fact that this brred [sic] does not occur naturally makes it a double insult.”
Really?
With all of the stray dogs out there that can be adopted at a shelter purchasing a “designer dog” is an insult and you should be ashamed of yourself. The fact that this brred does not occur naturally makes it a double insult.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.-Groucho Marx
It’s huge for 10 weeks old. You’ll have to tape down all the household ornaments.
all of my dogs(current and former) have slept on their backs, my quahound probably spends 15% of her life upside down on the couch
That’s a great looking puppy Professor, she’s the “Awwwwwwww” of the day for sure 🙂