My toy cockapoo grew into a giant beast: What owners must know before buying designer dogs that are meant to be just 10-inches tall
There's no feeling that quite compares to bringing home a pet pooch for the first time - but some owners have got a lot more dog more than they bargained for.
People who splurged hefty sums to purchase a miniature Cockapoo - the designer dog crossbred from the Cocker Spaniel and the Poodle - have ended up with a huge canine lumbering around the house.
Miniature cockapoos are specifically bred with toy poodles so that, in theory, they are small in size.
Adult dogs are meant to be 10-12 inches tall and weigh 10-12lbs, but instead of having a small, teddy-bear lookalike, a string of owners have been left with huge dogs weighing several stone.
When UK-born Kitty Morse, who now lives in the Netherlands, purchased a black cockapoo from a breeder in Cheshire, she expected a medium-sized fluffy dog.
The pooch was advertised as a 'Gorgeous F1 all black Cockapoo puppy', alongside two snaps of the adorable pooch.
However, the dog, though he's no less adorable, quickly transformed into a canine triple the size with wavy hair.
Similarly, TikTok user Ria, 21, who goes by @jazzmariax, wanted a 'small' dog and so settled on purchasing a cockapoo.
Fast forward seven months later, and the pooch was the quadruple its size at the time of purchase.
'They said he was going to stay small,' the content creator added in the post's caption.
Elsewhere, owners Liam Griffin and Tiffany Kingdon, from Coventry, purchased 'miniature cockapoo' Winnie for £2,000, and expected her to weight no more than stone.
At the time of purchase, Winnie was 11 weeks old and weighed 4.6kg, but soon enough, she defied the couple's expectations and grew to a whopping 32kg by the time she was just one.
Liam told The Sun, 'We love her to bits but it's a good job we've got a house with a garden. I don't know why the breeder passed her off as a miniature dog. It was very irresponsible.'
The breeder's blunder didn't appear to be so innocent either. Liam added, 'The guy asked us to send him some pictures but when we tried, they just bounced back. It seems he used a burner phone for the sale of the litter of pups and then moved on.'
After speculating over Winnie's breed, Liam and Tiffany settled on a DNA test, which revealed her to not be a miniature cockapoo at all, but a Poodle and a Irish Setter Cross.
Meanwhile, Charlotte Fallowfield appeared on This Morning earlier this week to tell the story of how she got her hands on her sweet pooch Waffle.
She was over the moon when she brought home her miniature cockapoo puppy, but as soon as he started growing, alarm bells started to ring - and she soon realised that he wasn't the breed that they originally wanted.
Charlotte expected Waffle to weight six to 11kg and 25 to 38cm tall.
But Waffle - who is a Sproodle - weighs between 22 to 32kg and is 45 to 55cm in height.
A Sproodle is a mix between a Springer Spaniel and a Poodle.
Charlotte told the presenters: 'Due to my allergies, I wanted one that was slightly hypoallergenic, one that was small enough that he wouldn't injure me, we saw him advertised online and went to meet him and just fell in love with him straight away.'
Co-host Ben Shepard asked, 'You did think something was a little bit off, didn't you?'
Charlotte explained: 'We asked to see him with the mother and puppies, we weren't given that chance.
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