Cavapoos are 12-16 inches tall and weigh 16-20 pounds, making them easy to carry. Their long, wavy to curly hair sheds little and needs regular grooming to prevent tangles, with professional grooming every 2-4 months.

Like with all dogs some breeds are more at risk than others at developing health issues. Fortunately cavapoos allows us to have generally healthy puppies with the crossbreeding of cavaliers and poodles.

Combining cavaliers and poodles help decrease the occurrence of health problems. According to the OFA greater than 97% of cavaliers have normal eyes, hearts, hearing, shoulders, hips and elbows on exam. According to the OFA greater than 97% of mininature poodle had good hearts, ears, eyes, elbows, legs and patella on exam.

All of our genetic testing is completed through Gensol Diagnostic

Degenerative Myelopathy is a recessive disease that causes a progressive decrease in use and function of the hind legs leading to paralysis. DM is typically diagnosed from ages 10-12. Forunalty approximately 90% of poodle are DM clear and approximately 67% of cavaliers are clear or not effected.

Cavapoos are included as a breed susceptible to episodic falling syndrome because of its close relatedness to the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel breed, which is known to develop this disease due to mutation of the BCAN gene. The frequency of mutation in the general Cavapoo population is unknown. Clinical diagnosis of EF is rare.