An entirely adorable invasive species, if you will
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images You can find one-year-old Ruby Schwartz ambling along a certain stretch of Seventh Avenue in Park Slope each morning, greeting every person, place, and thing with a giant smile and a warm hug. Ruby is gentle, hopelessly friendly, and perpetually shaggy, but she’s hardly unique. Ruby is a dog, by the way.
The first doodles were bred in the ’80s in Australia by a man named Wally Conron, who was hoping to create a guide dog for a blind woman whose husband was allergic to dogs.
“There is not actually one specific gene for shedding, although there are a few other coat-related genes that breeders look at as sort of proxy markers,” she says. “So it’s always going to be a gamble. To me, saying a dog is ‘low shedding’ is kind of like ‘a little bit pregnant.’” While there are no statistics on exactly how many doodles are adopted every year, pet ownership overall has been soaring, especially during the pandemic. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, more than 23 million American households — nearly one in five nationwide — adopted a pet during the pandemic.
The sudden uptick in the doodle population has created a loose head nod of a community of those who have opted for a doodle or feel like they are on a parallel canine journey. “Now we are connected with all these fellow doodle people we see on the street and in the park — and there are so many of them,” Anne tells me.
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