About Tegan Australian Cobberdogs
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Founder of the original and authentic Australian Labradoodle and Co Developer of the Australian Cobberdog |
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Mellodie, an accomplished horsewoman has a special love of grooming and presentation as shown in this photo of her with her champion imported stallion 'A Passing Breeze' (dec).
Her talent in braiding horses' manes spills over into her passion for keeping her Cobberdogs' coats in beautiful order. A Visit to Melbourne's Royal Guide Dog Centre Changed the Course of Canine HistoryWhen Mellodie attended an Open Day at the Guide Dog Centre in Melbourne Australia in the early nineties, she was captured by the potential she saw in some of the Labradoodles there, that fired her imagination. Surely, with her and her mother's long years of experience in dog breeding, showing and training, they could develop a very special kind of new dog breed if they had the patience, devotion and resolve.
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TEGAN (Tegan Park) set up the Tegan Park Labradoodle Breeding and Research Centre in Australia, first of its kind in the world, to further develop the early Labradoodle (Poodle x Labrador) into the Australian Labradoodle
It's principle and founder was the visionary Mellodie, who first concluded that the (then) Royal Guide Dogs in Melbourne Australia, was abandoning its Labradoodle breeding program too soon. They had cited the cross - breed Labradoodle as too easily distracted and hard headed, which made the training program too long and expensive to run. They were also discouraged at the low percentage of allergy friendly, non - shedding puppies in each litter. With a keen interest of how genetics worked and the belief that just 2 parent breeds rarely produce a consistent type, research began to find individuals as well as pure breeds that could be infused into the Labrador Poodle cross.
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Over time, her instincts were spot on. But as this new designer dog`s popularity exploded internationally as well as in Australia, breeding stock were in hot demand and many new breeders who initially expressed their interest in joining her in the careful developing of a new dog breed, got lost in the trap of breeding for money only. After all, the very name 'Labradoodle' ensured big money for their puppies, so in many cases the motivation was lacking, to breed with integrity towards the new developing pure breed. This predictably led to the destruction of the Australian Labradoodle as it was intended to be, with most little more than a Cockapoo or Spoodle with a Labradoodle price tag. preservation of original bloodlines have made it possible for the Australian Cobberdog to be raised from its ashes, with the garnering of precious proven bloodlines and working with them to regain what had been lost, with its new name once again setting it apart from its failing copies.
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A Pictorial trip down memory lane
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