Penelope

Dam

Breed-relevant conditions

19 tested, 0 detected

Additional conditions

251 tested, 0 detected

Carrier status

None

Clear across the board. No variant detected on any condition tested, including MDR1, which matters given her Australian Shepherd ancestry.

George

Sire

Breed-relevant conditions

7 tested, 0 detected

Additional conditions

263 tested, 0 detected

ALT Activity (GPT)

One copy

One copy of the ALT variant. This is not a disease and it is not a carrier status for one. Dogs with it run a lower baseline ALT, a liver enzyme measured on routine bloodwork. It matters only because a reading inside the normal range could still be elevated for that dog. Roughly half of this litter will inherit one copy. We disclose it so your veterinarian can read future bloodwork correctly.

Parent COI

Genomic, measured

Pairing eCOI

Calculated on this cross

Estimated litter eCOI

[ PENDING ]

Against the 15% ceiling

[ PENDING ]

A litter eCOI is not the average of the parents' two figures. It is set by how much ancestry the two dogs share. Penelope and George are both about half Poodle and both carry Bernese, so the real number has to be calculated on the pair rather than inferred from the pieces.

The Litter

Expected composition

• Poodle 50.3%
• Bernese 36.3%
• Aussie 9.8%
• Mini Aussie 3.6%

Bernese content rises sharply against Penelope's own. She is 23.1% Bernese. George is 49.4%. Their puppies land near 36%, the highest Bernese fraction in any current Stokeshire pairing. That drives the size, the bone, and the coat result below.

The Parents

Measured composition

Penelope: Poodle

50.0%

Penelope: Bernese

23.1%

Penelope: Australian Shepherd

19.6%

Penelope: Mini American Shepherd

7.3%

George: Poodle

50.6%

George: Bernese

49.4%

Furnishings

RSPO2

Penelope is FI, furnished and carrying one unfurnished copy. George is II, unfurnished. He has no beard, no mustache and no eyebrows, and he cannot pass a furnishing allele to anyone.

This is the most important line on the page. About half of this litter will be unfurnished. An unfurnished puppy is not a fault and not a lesser dog, but it does not look like a doodle and it does not groom like one. If a doodle face is what you want, this is the pairing where you need to say so before you apply.

Curl

KRT71

Penelope is CT, wavy. George is CC, straight.

No puppy in this litter can be curly. Curl needs a T from each parent and George has none to give.

Shedding

MC5R

Both parents are CC, so every puppy is CC. That single genotype does not tell you what you need to know, and here is why it matters.

Penelope reads as a light shedder. George reads as a heavy, seasonal shedder. Same gene, same genotype, opposite result. The difference between them is not MC5R at all. It is furnishings.

Shedding in this litter will track the furnishings split, not the shedding gene. Expect the roughly half that are furnished to shed like Penelope, and the roughly half that are unfurnished to shed like George. A family buying a doodle specifically for low shedding has a coin-flip outcome here unless they wait for a furnished puppy.

What the Four Combinations Look Like

RSPO2 and KRT71 together

The two genes sort independently, so the litter divides roughly into quarters.

Red Masking

E locus, MC1R

Penelope is Ee. George is ee, which is why he is a red dog with no dark hair anywhere on him.

About half the litter will be ee: apricot or red, with no dark pigment visible anywhere. On those puppies the tan points, the black base and any merle are all still present in the DNA but invisible in the coat. The other half show their pigment normally.

Merle

M locus, PMEL

Penelope is mm, no merle. George is M*m, one merle allele that does not show in his coat because his red masks it. He is a cryptic merle.

Roughly a quarter of this litter will be red puppies secretly carrying merle. You cannot see it and neither can anyone else. Bred to another merle years from now, that is how double merle litters happen, with the deafness and eye defects that come with them. Every puppy from this pairing leaves here with its merle result in writing, and any puppy considered for breeding must be retested for allele length first.

Pattern and Base Color

K locus, A locus, B locus, D locus

K locus kyky both parents

100% kyky

A locus atat both parents

100% tan points

B locus BB dam, Bb sire

50% BB, 50% Bb

D locus DD both parents

0% dilute

Every puppy is genetically black based with tan points, and every puppy has a black nose. Half carry brown. None are dilute, so there is no blue, charcoal or silver in this litter. On the red puppies the tan point pattern is present but hidden.

White Spotting

S locus, MITF

Penelope is Ssp, a parti carrier. George is SS, with no parti allele to give.

No parti puppies are possible in this litter. Parti needs sp from both parents. Expect solid coats with modest white on the chest, feet or muzzle. If you are waiting for a parti puppy, this is not your pairing.

What This Pairing Does Well

Strengths

• Two clear panels. No disease variant detected on either parent, on any condition tested.
• A dam at 0% COI, the lowest figure a dog can carry, bred to a sire at 8%.
• No dilute, no parti, no brown based puppies. Color outcomes are narrow and predictable.
• Substantial Bernese content at roughly 36%, for families who want the size and the settle.
• Two very different coat types from one litter, which means a genuine choice rather than one look.

What You Need to Weigh

Trade-offs, stated plainly

• About half will be unfurnished. Smooth faced, not doodle looking.
• About half will be straight coated, and none will be curly.
• Shedding follows the furnishings split. The unfurnished half sheds like George.
• About a quarter will be red puppies carrying hidden merle. Disclosed in writing, retest required before any future breeding.
• Half will carry the ALT variant. Benign, but your vet needs to know.
• These are large dogs, mid-parent 70 lb. Not a medium doodle.

Projection

From both parents' genomic weight predictions

Penelope, dam

60 lb

George, sire

80 lb

Mid-parent

70 lb

Expected range

60 to 85 lb

Expected females

Toward the lower half

Expected males

Toward the upper half

Read This If You Wanted a Medium

Size honesty

Both parents carry larger sizing markers at every body size locus tested, and both are intermediate at IGF1. There is no small allele in this pairing for a puppy to inherit.

A 70 lb adult is a different dog to live with than a 45 lb adult. Different vehicle, different furniture, different food budget, different physical handling as a puppy through adolescence. If you asked us for a medium, this pairing is not the answer and we would rather tell you now.