While they whitethorn beryllium the UK's 3rd astir fashionable canine breed, 1 communal mistake that owners marque tin pb to them becoming assertive oregon getting separation anxiety.

14:47, Wed, Jan 22, 2025 | UPDATED: 14:52, Wed, Jan 22, 2025

The Cockapoo has undoubtedly go the canine sensation of the past decade, capturing hearts crossed the UK and soaring to the nation's 3rd favourite dog breed.

A delightful transverse betwixt the energetic Cocker Spaniel and the Poodle, often the Miniature variety, this teddy bear-like canine has charmed its mode into becoming a ficture crossed households. The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), a veterinary charity, reports determination are an astonishing 590,000 Cockapoos successful the UK, a fig that's expected to rise.

Touted arsenic 1 of the astir 'hypoallergenic' dogs, Cockapoo owners are speedy to praise their doggie companions for their deficiency of shedding. With their popularity astatine a peak, these pups are seldom seen successful rescue centres and are typically snapped up from backstage breeders online, immoderate of them fetching prices implicit £1,500.

However, there's a downside to this adored canine breed, and it tin person a inclination towards "destructive" behaviour if not decently trained.

Cockapoo puppy

New cockapoo owners volition request to instrumentality enactment to guarantee a blessed canine (Image: Getty)

Dr Anna Foreman, an in-house Vet astatine Everypaw Pet Insurance, highlighted that immoderate canine tin make behavioural issues stemming from fear, which whitethorn escalate to aggression. Speaking to the Mirror, she emphasised: "The main origin is the nurture of a canine however it is raised by its owner, peculiarly successful the archetypal 16 weeks of beingness (the learning period)."

The adept warns that dogs not decently socialised oregon trained, oregon those with antagonistic experiences during their formative period, are 'prone to anxiousness and fear'. She emphasised that stereotypes astir 'aggressive dogs' should beryllium avoided, arsenic immoderate canine tin show problematic behaviour if they're not well-trained.

"Dogs who were puppies during the COVID-19 pandemic are a premier illustration of this," Dr Anna added. "Without socialisation and with excessive interaction with their owners during the archetypal 16 weeks, galore of these dogs present are fearfulness anxious/aggressive and person separation anxiety."

Ginger Cockapoo

Cockapoos were a fashionable breed during lockdown, which made it hard to socialise them (Image: Getty)

Cockapoos, on with different adorable breeds similar French Bulldogs, saw a surge successful popularity during this play - resulting successful a ample fig of pups that were 'poorly socialised' during their aboriginal stages. "Cockapoos peculiarly are an intelligent transverse breed, being produced from 2 moving canine breeds, and truthful a deficiency of stimulation often leads to these dogs becoming destructive oregon anxious," the vet explained.

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