Guess Biska’s Breed!

What sort of poodle is this? Here she is in September at 2 months. Her mom’s a poodle. Her dad – definitely isn’t! Any guesses?

Here’s what I said back in September, “I think she looks like a yellow Labrador retriever or golden retriever puppy except her face is narrower. Which makes sense because poodles have narrow faces. So I’m guessing her dad is a retriever mix of some sort…Most mutts around here contain at least some pit bull and some chihuahua. So I wouldn’t be surprised to find either one or both of those in her, even though she doesn’t look like either one of those…I’m guessing she’ll be 20-25 pounds when she’s full grown.”

A golden retriever mixed with a poodle is called a golden doodle. Here’s an example of a similar colored golden doodle:

This golden doodle puppy is probably just shy of two months old, so a bit younger, which would make him rounder and more puppy faced. But still, Biska’s face was always narrower than that and her ears are higher on her head.

Also Biska is smaller than the designer breed goodendoodles, aussiedoodles, labradoodles, etc. because they generally use standard poodles, which are 40-50 for the females pounds, but Biska’s mom was a miniature poodle at only 11 pounds. Biska was about 6 pounds at 2 months and about 10 pounds at 3 months. So her dad would have been bigger than her mom for sure. I’m guessing she will end up to be 20-25 pounds, John’s guessing 25-30 pounds.

John and I were doing our guessing in late September when she was still 2 months old, but I’m going to give you an advantage – here’s some more recent pictures from late October at age 3 months. She’s still all puppy, but she’s getting long and tall. Now you can really see her big ears starting to want to stand up.

And that long, long tail – if it didn’t have a slight up-curve it would drag on the ground!

Let me know your guesses! We’ll do the big reveal soon!

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