Scruffy carries one copy of the FGF4 retrogene on chromosome 12, associated with chondrodystrophy and Type I intervertebral disc disease. Current research indicates that dogs with one or two copies carry a similar level of risk, and that weight, activity, and other genetic and environmental factors influence whether a dog ever develops clinical signs. Many dogs with this result never do. The variant is common enough that nearly every dog in some breeds carries it.

If Scruffy is bred, she will be paired only with sires that test clear for this variant, and her carrier status will be disclosed in every litter listing and purchase agreement she is part of. Talk with your veterinarian about what it means for her daily care. Weight management, low-impact exercise, a harness rather than a collar, and ramps in place of repeated stair or furniture jumping are reasonable precautions.

Because genetic weight prediction is a model, not a measurement. Embark estimated 58 pounds. She weighed 35 at eight and a half months and is tracking toward roughly 40. Weight models are built largely on purebred data and they overshoot in doodles regularly, since a dog can inherit the size genes of one parent breed and the frame of another.

We publish both numbers rather than quietly using whichever one sounds better, and we go by the scale. If you are choosing a dog based on adult size, ask any breeder for the current weight and the growth curve, not the DNA estimate.

She is furnished, meaning she carries two copies of the RSPO2 variant that produces the mustache, beard, and eyebrows characteristic of doodle coats. Embark predicts light shedding for her, driven by those furnishings.

She is lower-shedding, which is not the same as non-shedding, and no dog is truly hypoallergenic. People with allergies react to dander and saliva proteins, not hair, and individual responses vary. If allergies are the reason you are here, meet her in person before you apply. Because she carries two copies of the furnishings variant, every puppy she produces would be furnished as well.

Stokeshire covers all health testing and genetic screening, all breeding-related veterinary care and reproductive costs, whelping and puppy raising at our facility, and her spay when she retires from the program. We pay you $500 per litter.

You cover what any owner covers: routine veterinary care, food, and grooming. There is no purchase price for the dog. You are also responsible for transporting her to us during breeding and whelping windows, and for keeping her at a healthy weight with low-impact exercise given her CDDY result.

We cover her spay, ownership transfers to you in full, and nothing about her daily life changes. She has been your dog the whole time. The paperwork simply catches up to that.