I have seen several reviews on her and every one is positive. My daughter ans son in law live in Cali and flew out to Virginia to pick up their puppy. You might try that breeder. Bay Breeze Labradors. Good luck! I recall that the book stated the breed was all but removed from the classifications can any one help me? A small white patch on the chest is permissible in the breed standard, but large streaks or white hair elsewhere is not. There were 2 of them and someone had already taken 1.
So I said yes. So now we have a black lab. He is my best friend. After reading your article I see that he must be an American Lab. Someone had to have abused him and trained him. As he proved to be very smart , but also scare of anything I would pickup. He has separaton anxiety. I am 70, and find it hard to keep up with him. Will he ever settle down,he is 4. He ia a great dob, just not a love puppy.
Could you enlist the help of family, friends or a professional dog walking service to exercise him more? English type Labradors can make outstanding hunting companions. All of proper English type.
I have also bred and had field bred labradors of proper english type. It is harder to find the field bred dogs of proper type than it is to find English Type Labradors with good hunting instincts.
The way to find a good English type Labrador to hunt with is to look for hunting titles close up in the pedigree. Some breeders breed for both — others just breed to win. Choose your pups carefully. Watery, colorless, tasteless. According to what I have read, the Labrador retriever originated from Newfoundland St.
Newfoundland being part of Canada and encompassed in the territories? There is factually a big difference in the appearance between the two…however, there is a significant resistance in the politics of the powers that be…to separate these two Labrador lines. Do you know of any good and trustworthy breeders in my area? My wife and 2 boys 14 and 12 are considering getting a Chocolate Lab. We know nothing about them. Just that they are great family dogs.
Any info or advise you can give would be much appreciated. Thanks -AL. You said that the English Labrador has a thicker coat. I read both English and American Labradors have double layer water proof coats. Which Labrador sheds less. I honestly cannot say. I have never seen it mentioned that ancestry, being working or show type, affects how much a lab sheds. I just adopted a rescue pure bred American Labrador.
The dog I adopted, Cooper, was exactly one year old when I picked him up and unfortunately showed signs of abuse. Cooper would cower if I just walked towards him. It took me about 6 weeks of shameless spoiling and boatloads of affection to make Cooper feel secure, loved, and totally not afraid of anyone or anything. In any case, I won and Cooper is going to have a perfectly happy life and no one will ever hurt him again. I had to laugh while reading this because my dog Charlie fit the American lab looks perfectly, yet he was the biggest couch potato ever.
He was so calm and lazy. I am glad I found this site. I have a lab and reading this she fits in the American Lab group. She is long and lanky and people often comment on the fact that she is so skinny and you can see her ribs. She is a picky eater after getting sick in the winter and we have to put yogurt on her food to get her to eat.
But we feed her 4 cups of food a day and at times she will not eat it all. The last time she was at the vet she weighed 55 pounds. We have been worried about her as well as she appears thinner then she was this winter. She is of course more active since it has been warm out. This site had a lot of information and makes me feel better about her appearance.
I feel that I can now explain the difference to others and they might then see the difference. Maybe now I can stop worrying as much about it. Just in general most common people i. Like mentioned in another comment, it really depends from dog to dog, height, length, etc. There is nothing wrong about either dog in this scenario.
You should see the concerned faces when folks see my dog next to their lab. Thanks for the informative article. I have a four month old Labrador who has long legs and looks skinny her father is an English one and mother American. Unfortunately, no vet or breeder had knowledge or awareness about this difference, and told me that she might be underweight. This is really sad for the pup, as the pup who stayed with the breeder became obese for selling purpose.
Whether it is child rearing or pup, every body has an opinion. I find english labs have a tendency to become way too overweight, though a lab is a lab, and I have never met a more loving breed, whatever their lineage! I have a 9.
The result is an extremely handsome, tall and athletic looking boy. He is already much taller and longer then the other labs at the dog park. For the longest time while he was growing quickly, he was extremely awkward and gangly, but now that he has started filling out, we receive comments regularly about how handsome he is.
Looks aside, he is a great mix of both energetic and lazy. We love our guy to bits! I had a beautiful boy that was a combo…athletic, long legged and the most beautiful head…not exactly an English head but wider than many US types. Always lean but thick and ribs. HIs coat was heave with a down under coat.. Great informative article. Thank you for all the information.
I had not heard the term English Labrador until today when I met an owner. His female and my own could be twins. She is my first dog. She definitely fits the description of American Lab but with a mix of Golden Retriever. Thank you for such a great website. I have dogs competing in Master level agility and Master level barn hunts as well as obedience and rally. The field trial lines I owned lacked that off switch making them harder to live with. For breeders in the US check out Wildrose Labs online.
I have a yellow female. Also small at the shoulder. Her head confirmation is most like the Am description. I hunted my previous 3. Her dam is Flush on the Wildrose website. As we say in our family we pity the other dog owners cause we got the best.
My best advice is for people to look at the parents. All puppies are cute but to see how they are likely to look and act, look at the parents. As far as personality goes, every lab is unique but is a reflection of breeding and training. Two children raised side by side can have vastly different personalities and so can two dogs. I have two grown sisters from the same litter and one is always in front, and never met a stranger.
The other is very quiet and takes her time getting to know new people and new circumstances. The important thing for me is how adaptable and trainable labs are in general. They can really be anything you train them to be. I have pups who go on to be champions in hunt, show, and couch potato. They have become therapy dogs, water rescue, search and drug dogs. Bottom line is that each is an individual and each has the capability to become the most awesome dog that ever lived!
Carmen, South Wind Farm. Day and night. That indicates that he is in an excited state of mind. Oscar gets a lot of excited physical exercise playing ball. This type of exercise tires out the body, but keeps the mind in high excitement mode. A pack walk is also needed to exercise and calm the mind.
Zeke the chocolate Labrador Retriever at 13 years old— "Friend to all. Never met a stranger. Miss him dearly. He likes to sleep a lot and play tug-of-war. He also likes to dig up the yard which mommy and daddy aren't too happy about He loves walks and playing with other dogs. He's a very smart pup and learns very fast. He's practically potty trained—we use the ring the bell on the door system—and he sleeps through the night.
He also likes to cuddle on your lap, which could pose a problem when he's 80 lbs. She is not super high energy, probably due in part to the daily exercise I make sure she gets. She is eager to please and extremely loyal.
She greets everyone with a wag of the tail and loves to be loved on! As with any dog, consistency is important when training, and thanks to that, and dog parks , Molly is the perfect dog: ". Three adorable puppies showing the three Labrador colors, front to back, black, yellow and chocolate, photo courtesy of Mirage Labrador Retrievers.
He is one and a half years old in this picture and we adopted him from the pound. Like most Labs he loves the water as you can see in the picture ; in fact, he loves it a little too much. We need to work with him on not obsessing over the water so much, but he is so eager to please that it shouldn't be too hard.
We take him on two walks a day with him carrying a doggy backpack, one being a three-mile walk with at least a half hour of swimming. I watch the Dog Whisperer all the time so I know that with following his methods and with Dozer being so eager to please that whatever issues he has we will be able to improve them.
Cappy is an all-around great companion and fun dog. His favorite activities include car rides, swimming, fetch, meeting new people and playing with his big sister, a black Lab. The Purebred Labrador Retriever Information and Pictures "Othello black month-old Lab and Hamlet chocolate month-old Lab live in the city with mom, but they love to drive out to the country and visit their cousin Jake yellow month-old Lab.
Play Dog Trivia! Even though a dog inherits a little b gene, the dog will only appear brown if no black gene B is present at all. Remember that the black dominant gene always switches of the brown gene, so only the dog at the bottom will actually look brown.
Generation after generation of black dogs can continue to have only black puppies if dogs with the Bb gene are only ever mated to dogs with BB genes. Remember, the dog in the middle of our list above will look black, but pass the brown gene on to about half of all its offspring. But things are never that simple are they? Because of course some Labradors are neither black nor brown.
But little ee is recessive, and if the dominant E gene is present, it switches off the masking gene. There are three possible combinations of eee gene that a dog could inherit. It could have. Only the middle of these three dogs will be yellow. There are nine different possible combinations. The chart below lists them genotype is the genetic makeup, phenotype is the appearance of the dog. Because as you can see, the second dog down the list may look black but he could throw brown puppies, and the fourth dog down the list may look black, but he could throw yellow puppies.
Two yellow Labradors mated together will never throw brown or black puppies. All their offspring will be yellow. This is because yellow dogs do not possess the big E gene which is needed to switch off the masking effect. Two brown dogs mated together will never throw black puppies because brown dogs do not have the black gene.
But two chocolate dogs can produce yellow puppies, if each of the parents carries the little e gene — see the bottom right hand box below. The color of puppies produced by other color combinations of parents are a little more complicated.
Remember from our grid above that there are four different possible genotypes for a black Labrador. Overall, when comparing the English Lab vs. They are simply the same breed, with some slight differences. There are slight variations in their appearance and their temperament as one is a show dog, and the other is a hunter. This is not to say that the English Labrador would be useless as a hunter. Nor would we say that the American Labrador is less handsome.
Both pups are true Labradors and fantastic family companions. One type of lab has slightly different energy levels than the other. They are both built slightly different but they are the same dog.
Pup sizes and personalities can vary by dog. Either way, whatever side of the pond your pooch comes from you are sure to have a worldwide superstar in your midst.
John and Diana Wichland. Vanessa Kathryn Stallwood. In the long run, I will be needing a guide dog, as much I hate, well not really, I'll need a dog to guide me in some areas. Plus I'd love the company. We just lost our English bench Chocolate Lab about two months ago. We were blessed to have I knew there were two different variants, but it was seeing my brother-in-law's American field Yellow Lab next to my lab that really made me realize the differences.
They are wonderful family pets and will steal your heart for a lifetime! Kelly Wilson. Sorry for your loss Candee. Thank you for taking the time to comment, and hopefully, you can find a new pup to help fill the void when the time is right. Growing up we had a bench lab. He was fantastic, lived to be well into his twenties. It wasn't until today that I found out there were two different 'types'. Our neighbors and the hunting dogs that my brother-in-law helped trained were totally different than our dog.
Not to say ours wasn't able to retrieve, but he was just as happy sleeping on the deck or sitting in the boat fishing. Now the question. I knew the hunting dogs would eat but they also burned way more calories.
Our Bench Lab at home Once stole a whole cooked turkey off a counter! He had energy and could keep up with the other dogs but, just loved to eat. Hi Rin! Thanks for stopping by to comment. I don't believe any official studies have been done to differentiate which type of Lab is at greater risk of having the POMC gene mutation. For what it's worth, we owned a field Labrador for 13 years.
And we really had to moderate her food intake. She loved to eat too, and we had to pull back her food intake as she grew older and was less active. I'd personally lean towards saying that it can affect both equally, but I don't have any statistical data to back that up.
Hope this helps! My daughter has an American chocolate who couldn't be sweeter and more loving. Now, if we could figure out a way to harness her energy, we could save the world. Loves everyone and everyone loves her. I have an English chocolate and I can honestly way that she is an angel! If she isn't allowed into Heaven, I'm not going. Only two months separate these two and they act like sisters. They adore each other and watching them play quite literally makes my day.
Karen Kirkconnell. I have a question. Can I take my lab to the beach 3 times a week? Would that affect his coat in a negative way, causing him skin issues?
Hi Karen, I think it depends on your pup. The saltwater can dry out their skin. So you may deal with dry skin.
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