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I just posted in another topic about the designer dogs, and i thought i would start a seperate one.

I was just sayng that i have seen a decline in the oodle craze, and now instead of cavvoodles and spoodles people seem to be buying daschunds and pugs.

They are EVERYWHERE at the moment near me, and i was just wondering if people had noticed the same around them? If not, do you have different breeds, or still the designer dogs?

A few years ago when i got my first CKCS, they were all the craze.

I met others out walking almost everyday, but now, i am lucky to encounter one every month.

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I live in a country coastal town. We have mostly Staffys, kelpies, BC's. and lots of those type breeds in different mixes (especially Lab mixes). Many of them keep getting out tho and are found wandering around, over and over *sigh*

There seems to be quite a few cavadoodles around here.

Not so much designer breeds here but more your BYB dogs and 'accidental matings'

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Apparently blue heeler x Staffy is a great cross laugh.gif OH has family a few hours away (Leonora) and when they were visiting they were talking about these dogs and how they're good guard dogs. I'm guessing the blue heeler side is more likely to be the good guard dog bit though? laugh.gif Actually around there, I think any big strong mastiff-ish kind of dog would be popular for guarding and hunting.

But yeah around here most dogs are Border Collies, Kelpies, Blue heelers or crosses of those.

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Well I'm in the country so the most common breeds are working dogs. However I know there are Rotties, Dobs, Labs, Newfies, Akitas ad other Samoyeds in the area. There is one little oodle thing that is forever getting out and annoying everyone.

I have noticed there are quite a few pure-breds in Queanbeyan where as I almost always see x breeds in Canberra.

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I spend a lot of time in inner suburbs of Melbourne and then also have a farm about an hour away (primary residence) in the city (hipster area) lots of rescue dogs of all types- heaps of mix breeds and they will look down on you for having a purebred from a breeder- then pugs, dachshunds, french bulldogs and some oodles.

In the country it's a different story- actually far more purebreds than in the city and most people tend to stick to a breed they are passionate about. Just thinking about my immediate neighbourhood- one neighbour has hounds used for fox hunting, one neighbour breeds maremmas and there are a fair few around, one person has ovcharkas, great danes, kelpies, boarder collies, australian shepherds, yorkies, spaniels and heaps of poodles ... most popular in our little area (boutique small farms mixed with big TB studs and ALL horse people which is probably why most are into a certain breed, horse people tend to like one particular horse/discipline/dog etc.) are poodles, boarder collies and kelpies. I can think of five households in my area with poodles- all have toys except for me. I find the country people are a LOT more knowledgeable and the dogs better trained than in the city as a general rule, again perhaps surprisingly!

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Around my area I see a lot of little Jack Russell looking dogs actually. That's only in my suburb though. I've noticed pugs gaining more popularity, and all over my Facebook there seems to be a new infatuation with the French Bulldog. However in cairns the bed I've noticed spike the most is actually the Catahoula Leopard dog and their crosses. From customers with new pups at my work, new ones throughout the levels at dog school, and unfortunately a big spike turning up throughout the rescue shelters. :( beautiful looking dogs, but a lot to handle, and people clueless about the downfalls of breeding merle to merle, resulting in a few deaf dogs come through rescue.

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Don't know if I've ever seen another PB in our suburb. Lots of terriers, Staffies and big mutts. Few suburbs over where it gets trendy there's a few Mals (much less than there used to be) kelpies and little fluffies, definitely more pugs and frenchies though.

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Well I'm in the country so the most common breeds are working dogs. However I know there are Rotties, Dobs, Labs, Newfies, Akitas ad other Samoyeds in the area. There is one little oodle thing that is forever getting out and annoying everyone.

I have noticed there are quite a few pure-breds in Queanbeyan where as I almost always see x breeds in Canberra.

Similar here, we are country (out towards Captain's Flat) and its all working dogs here, mainly borders, kelpies, cattle dogs and koolies. Plus the other side of the country working dog- pigging mixes.

I work in Queanbeyan and there seems to be an awful lot of SBT (and mixes) or little JRT, Mini Foxie type dogs. I rarely venture into Canberra though, other than for agility trials so can't really comment on what seems to be around there.

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I think Canberra has a lot of mixes and staffies. Although there is definitely a lot of pedigrees too. Actually what I am seeing is less of the popular breeds and more of a diversity. There is 5 or so GSDs on this street alone and I see some beautiful pugs, Danes, Irish setters, etc being walked. There is still at least two dozen staffy/pitty type crosses and kelpie X, SWF X coming in behind that.

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Beagles. I recently moved to Canberra and the first thing I noticed is that there are beagles everywhere!

Funny you say that, when my auntie moved to Canberra, they bought a beagle!

ETA: and then they moved to toowoomba and bought a Daschund. So just a little bit of a mix there :laugh:

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That's so funny. I've lived in canberra for close to 20 years ( wow this post just got depressing lol) and I've never seen a beagle being walked around or know anyone who owns one.

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recently I've seen an increase in larger medium sized dogs like kelpies and kelpie crosses.

I'm in ringwood and there are definitely a few oodles and swfs as well. Althought I took sarah to the park on the weekend and a swf approached Sarah, the owner said to me 'finally someone his size' :p

there was about 5 other dogs in the park and all were about twice the height of Sarah

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