Coat

How much time and money do you want to spend and how much hair can you bear?  Do you have the time or the desire to brush your dogs coat every night?  Do you mind having to vacuum dog hair off your furniture?  What about grooming costs?  The type of coat your dog has will determine how much time you will need to spend maintaining it.  Coat is also important to consider if you have allergies.

There are three types of coats; Wavy or Hair Coat, Curly or Wool Coat, Fleece Coat.  Wavy or Hair coats require little maintenance, but can shed heavily.  Some are light shedders.  Curly or Wool coats have tight curls like that of a poodle. These coats are non-shedding, but require high maintenance when they get longer and generally tend not to be very soft.  Fleece coats consist of loose curls over the entire body.  The fleece coat has a soft feel to it and is easy to care for.  Almost all fleece coats are non-shedding and allergy friendly.

Be careful in selecting a goldendoodle by asking the right questions of the breeder.  Goldendoodles can have all three types of these coats.  At New Life Goldendoodles we carefully select the parent dogs to produce puppies with the non-shedding fleece coats as much as possible.

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