Chip and Dale Designs

PACADOODLES

Recently, a number of my husband’s Facebook friends had engaged in a lively discussion on the pros and cons of breeding designer dogs. Now while I don’t want to get into a big discussion or debate on the ethics or science of the breeding of designer dogs in particular, I must say that these discussions have caused me to wonder.

 

Several months ago, while visiting our friends Laurie and Fred at their G-Spot Ranch in Southern Colorado, I brought up the subject of designer dogs. This led into a discussion on designer animals in general. After many beers hours of discussion, we came to several conclusions on the subject.

First, the designer animal needed to be self-supporting. For example, a cow or goat gives milk, a chicken lays eggs, and a person can get wool from a llama, alpaca or sheep. In other words, the animal should produce something that can be sold or exchanged in order for the animal to be self-sustaining.

Second, the breeding process should be natural, not something contrived in a test tube or laboratory. Therefore, the two designer parents must be somewhat compatible in order for this to happen au natural, so to speak. For the sake of the children, if nothing else.

Fred pointed out that he had a female alpaca right there on the G-Spot Ranch. Her friend and mate had passed away several years ago and she hasn’t been laid ever since. So Fred thought she might be up to some non-species lovin’. This would be a good place to start.

Laurie recalled a little boy, upon seeing the alpaca, had said that it was the biggest poodle that he had ever seen.   We all agreed that poodles do look somewhat like alpacas and as anyone who has ever been around a poodle knows, they will hump anything. So with that in mind, we formulated a plan for the first pairing of a totally natural designer animal.

 

Here is the happy couple:

Now, several months later, The G-Spot Ranch is the home of the first successful natural attempt to interbreed species and create a new designer animal – the Pacadoodle!

 

 

The wool of this lovely little creature makes it self- sustaining. It has the friendliness and hunting capabilities of a poodle. And Bob says that it has all the functionality of a sheep, whatever that means.

All in all, I would say our first attempt at creating a designer animal was a huge success.