Our first encounter with ignorant people!

[Pepster]

Ooh I am not impressed. Been at the park today and were standing Watching Jack on the slide with Pepper when a couple walked up to us and stopped in front of us and the lady stared at Pepper and said " I really don't like those, they don't have Poodle faces!" and then walked off discussing Pepper in a very loud voice! How rude :mad:
We never even got a chance to answer her back!

[Pepster]

Oops! Jack was on the slide on his own, Pepper was watching with us. Jack wasn't on the slide with Pepper . . .lol :D

[Lauramegan]

Obviously they have no taste!

[cockerpoo61]

This will cheer you up Pepster. We met a lady yesterday who has always had Standard Poodles for many, many years and her first words were ' what mix is with the poodle?' so we answered 'cocker spaniel'. She was smitted more with Bayley than Holly (we thought Holly looked more poodle like) and said you could see so much poodle in him and could not get over what lovely looking dogs they both were. So as Pepper and Bayley are so much alike i think we can say they do have the looks of a poodle. :D

[JoJo]

Oh .. I don't deal with rude people well either .. I just smile ..

They are unhappy and I am not .. thats my way of looking at it ..

I am always nice .. smiley and happy... and my dogs are wonderful ...

Some people shock me .. rude .. opinionated .. not nice

You are better than that ... just smile :)

[Laura(L)Izzie]

I can't believe someone would just say something like that out of the blue! How disgusting & rude, if you'd asked then fine but her opinion wasn't required! :O Shocked, you should have said something about not being a fan of her face but you wouldn't be rude enough to say anything haha :)

[Pepster]

Thank you for that :) and that lady knows what she is talking about.
I have a picture of Ziggy that I took when we collected Pepper and I think she looks just like her Daddy :)

[cockerpoo61]

Pepper really does look like her dad the same we always say about Bayley, we can always see Ziggy in his face. We fell in love with Ziggy as soon as we met him thats why we so much wanted one of his offspring.

[Pepster]

Jo Jo, you are so right :ilmc:
And Laura my daughter did mutter to me something about not liking the lady's face ... Ooh, cheeky girl :devil:

[Pepster]

Us too, he is such a handsome dog, his coat is gorgeous!

[Laura(L)Izzie]

Haha :) I like the sound of your daughter! It must be a thing with us young girls/teens these days haha, I would have been rude back seen has she had that kind of cheek, I just can't believe it, gobsmacked when I read this thread! I would just never dream of saying something like that to someone even if I thought it!
She'd do well slagging off a cockapoos face on this site! I think there may be an angry mob around her house within an hour from all areas of the country ;) HAHA

[kendal]

only ever had 1 person say to my face she didnt like cockapoos, i was on the oldies stall at a dog show helping out we had my Echo, and Laras 3 dogs muffin xbreed tots xbreed and Amber the cockapoo.

laura got talking to a woman about amber and said she was a cockapoo etc, the woman next to me started going on about cockapoos and how she didnt like them etc, i dont think se twigged that one of them might be mine.

i just said each to their own, theyn she went on about breeding whatever dog it it she has and how she was gutted that she had been on holiday and missed her season so had to wait till she could breed her.

you just have to let it run off you.

[wellerfeller]

It is just infuriating isn't it!!!! Not the fact they don't like the cross but the fact they think they can be so bloody rude about it:mad:
It amazes me that people actually think you would be the slightest bit interested in their negative comments:mad::mad:
Went to herts show today and had lots of nice things said about and to Weller, so much easier to be nice than nasty!!!!! Met my first cockapoopoo:D

[MillieDog]

Some people just have no taste. Her loss.

:D:D:D:

[Jedicrazy]

Ooh those sort of people make me :mad: If people don't have something nice to say then why say it! Some people are just mean and miserable. Just ignore them!

[JoJo]

I always treat others how I like to be treated myself.... thats just me really... I am quite nice, ok cockapoo mad but nice ..... yep I do let people get away with being rude to me at times.. but hey they end up looking silly not me .. just smile :)

At the end of the day you are the one with the lovely cockapoo :) walk away and smile :)

[jools]

People never fail to amaze me on their rudeness levels sometimes!!! Just say to the rude ones ............. i don't care what you think but ............... :ilmc: xx

[Missgvus]

How rude!
There's no accounting for taste, some of us have got it and the rest haven't!
Enjoy your wonderful healthy fun and downright gorgeous little dog and don't give Mrs Negativity another thought xx

[Rufini]

Pfffft well some people have no taste!! Pepper is beautiful!

[Pepster]

Thanks everyone... Although we are all slightly biased :D
Every time we go for a walk it takes us ages as so many people want to stop and chat and fuss Pepper and people driving past smile and kids point excitedly at her. It is so nice to have a dog that makes people smile.
I love the Cockapoos fuzzy little faces :)

[M&M's mummy]

Ooh I am not impressed. Been at the park today and were standing Watching Jack on the slide with Pepper when a couple walked up to us and stopped in front of us and the lady stared at Pepper and said " I really don't like those, they don't have Poodle faces!" and then walked off discussing Pepper in a very loud voice! How rude :mad:
We never even got a chance to answer her back!

Did you not have a ball with you? should have lobbed it at the back of her head :D:D:D


Only jesting- I am not a violent person just my silly SOH :P

[Pepster]

Lol :laugh:

[weez74]

Oh, I don't understand rude people. The nice Poodle we met the other day, that I mistook for a Labradoodle, had a lovely owner who was saying how beautiful Rosie was and was genuinely interested in what was poodle-y about her and what wasn't. I really enjoyed meeting her.

My husband always moans at me for being too 'nice' and not standing up for myself (which in his mind means being awkward and rude any time you get annoyed). The other month, my car went in to the garage and they hit me with a mahooooosive bill and then kept asking to keep my car in for another day until they'd had it a week. Husband told me to be rude to them about it and I ignored him. When I eventually got the car, they knocked £200 of the bill because I had been so 'nice' about it all. YAY!!!!

[Laney]

Obviously they have no taste!

....and most definately, no manners!!! How rude! :mad:

[Rufini]

I was talking to a girl in the cafe in my office building, she owns poodles. She was unimpressed with my cockapoo ; ; I said that I loved Vincents poodle like face and she said he was nothing like a poodle and that poodles shouldn't be crossbreed :cry2::cry2::cry2:

[wellerfeller]

I was talking to a girl in the cafe in my office building, she owns poodles. She was unimpressed with my cockapoo ; ; I said that I loved Vincents poodle like face and she said he was nothing like a poodle and that poodles shouldn't be crossbreed :cry2::cry2::cry2:
We need a raspberry blowing smilie on here!!!!! That is what it makes you feel like doing to them;) It makes me laugh how they are so breed snobbish when every single pedigree started off in this way, cross breed, cross breed, cross breed or do these people think their pedigrees just appeared one day????:confused::rolleyes:

[JoJo]

Some people hey....

I just dont let them in to my world .. smile sweetly and let it go ...

Being nice pays off .. it makes you happier as a person...

Even if I think something not so nice (which I do, I am human) I just dont say it, what do I gain by making someone else feel bad or sad ... nothing ...

I am a bit soft and do tend to like everyone, rude people dont come into my world ... :) :) :) ....well I wont them in anyway ha ha ha ....

Maybe everyone in the world should just get a cockapoo .. I am sure you have to be a nice person to have such a cool dog ....

[wellerfeller]

I think in 1/200 years there will be lots of pedigree cockapoo snobs out there!!!!!:D:D

[JoJo]

That is funny Karen :)

[Rufini]

I think in 1/200 years there will be lots of pedigree cockapoo snobs out there!!!!!:D:D

And the ILMC site will be the holy shrine to them!!!!!

[wellerfeller]

Yes and We can look down on them from above and say SEE WE TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!:D

[Rufini]

Yes and We can look down on them from above and say SEE WE TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!:D

ahahahahaha! YES! >: )

[mandym]

Some people are just so rude.what amazes me is that they are standing there being rude and nasty about a little innocent dog.Your dogs are gorgeous and that lady is not only rude but also blind! You see i wouldnt have been able to hold my tongue,people like that are all bold saying it out loud and from a distance but if you tap them on the shoulder and say exuse me,do you mean this dog,theyre mortified lol xxx

[Rejess]

Did you not have a ball with you? should have lobbed it at the back of her head :D:D:D


Only jesting- I am not a violent person just my silly SOH :P

Oh that would have been a fine youtube moment! I would pay to see that! Stupid woman! :D

[Rejess]

The mOst irritating thing about these 'crossbreed' snobs is that their dogs all originally derived from a crossbreed of sorts... The only true pure bred dog in existence is a wolf.... Poodles did not spontaneously appear from a wolf womb one day! They had to be interbred and crossbred over hundreds of years to create the final breed that exists today! Dimwits!! :rolleyes:

[Rufini]

The mOst irritating thing about these 'crossbreed' snobs is that their dogs all originally derived from a crossbreed of sorts... The only true pure bred dog in existence is a wolf.... Poodles did not spontaneously appear from a wolf womb one day! They had to be interbred and crossbred over hundreds of years to create the final breed that exists today! Dimwits!! :rolleyes:

Totally! I think by crossbreeding we are protecting the puppy race! Having these so called purebreeds can only go on for so long before they have so many genetic issues they can't survive. Cockapoos forever!!!!

[ali-s.j.]

Ah, so on that basis, what will be breed with Cockapoos when we get to F99,9999?

[Rejess]

Ah, so on that basis, what will be breed with Cockapoos when we get to F99,9999?

gotta be great danes, i have to see a giant cockapoo :D

[weez74]

gotta be great danes, i have to see a giant cockapoo :D

It'd be like Digby, the biggest dog in the world!

I so wanted to own Digby when I was little.

[Sezra]

Totally! I think by crossbreeding we are protecting the puppy race! Having these so called purebreeds can only go on for so long before they have so many genetic issues they can't survive. Cockapoos forever!!!!

Without meaning to be the 'Thread misery guts' genetic issues come from bad breeding practices and lack of health testing. There have also been certain dubious traits that have been focussed on and bred for the show ring but thankfully this kind of thing is now reversing and a lot of good pedigree breeders are trying to breed out health issues.

Unless breeders stop producing Cockapoos willy nilly without the proper health tests in place then as people breed further generations of Cockapoos (which is happening more and more) then we will see a pattern of health issues within the Cockapoo cross. :(

I know I go on about health testing and I don't want to be a bore but some breeders don't think further ahead than the pups that they are selling. They presume that everyone will neuter they dogs and not decide to ever breed from them which is not always the case! The minimum standard for testing (if any are done) seems to be the sire or the dam to be PRA tested, why not both,why not other breed related tests?

Anyway apologies, rant over! ;) :ilmc:

[Rejess]

It'd be like Digby, the biggest dog in the world!

I so wanted to own Digby when I was little.

lol, it would certainly be a sight to behold! :D