Short answer - NO. LOL I'm with your DH on this one. I just cannot justify that amount of money on an animal sorry Both for the reasons that your DH said and also because I have an issue with dog breeding - many 'purebred' dogs are so overly inbred to produce pups with 'perfect' traits that the dogs have many, many health problems that are very costly to fix. I would rather source a free dog from a pound or someone giving them away before buying one. But if you were absolutely adamant that you wanted one, I would be looking into it very seriously and finding a breeder that does not use inbreeding/small gene pool for their breeding dogs to reduce the chance of getting a puppy that is destined to be sick.
I agree. I would not. It is just an animal, what are you *really* paying all that money for, you know? It will live just as long as a normal dog, eat just as much, poo just as much etc etc, only difference being that it is inbred (most likely, all to some degree but some a lot more severely). If you can afford it though, and can afford for it to die prematurely, then do it I personally dislike labradoodles as they are notoriously stupid dogs, so I guess the $2000 would be going towards their looks