The Australian Labradoodle is different from all other labradoodles

In the early days, the Australian Labradoodle was simply a cross between a Labrador Retriever and a Standard Poodle. Dogs from this cross typically were bred to each other over future generations, whereby the Australian dogs are also know as "Multi-generational" Labradoodles.

Then, in the late 1980's, Tegan Park and Rutland Manor, the two founders of the Australian Labradoodle as we know it today, began carefully infusing several other breeds into early generations of their Lab/Poodle crosses, to improve temperament, coat, confirmation, and size. The infused breeds include Irish Water Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel and later the Irish Soft Coated Wheaten. The resulting labradoodles subsequently have been bred to each other, continuing the multi-generational tradition.

Today, Australian Labradoodles are wonderful, intelligent, intuitive dogs with lush coats that are more reliably low to non-shedding and allergy friendly than other types of Labradoodles such as first generation Lab/Poodle crosses, or first generation crosses bred back to Poodles. Even when the other types of Labradoodles are bred on for generations, the result is not an Australian Labradoodle, as the attributes of the infused breeds and the focused breeding for desired traits as envisioned by the founders, were not included in their ancestry.

Here at Southern Cross, all our breeding stock comes directly from the two major breed developers mentioned above. Our puppies are 6th and 7th generation Australian Labradoodles. We only breed Australian Labradoodles to Australian Labradoodles, thus keeping in our breeding lines, all the qualities that have made these dogs so popular.