Our Lab is of the American taller and thinner type. So far we are very happy with her both in the field and at home, plenty of bottom to hunt all day and a very good off switch in the house. She has been pretty easy to train, very biddable and eager to please. A natural retriever ( always to hand with little or no training) and is absolute hell on a running or low flying cripple. The only aggravation in the field so far is that she's pretty hard headed when on a ground track, hard to stop her with a snoot full of bird scent and she occasionally re visits the scene of a flush or where a bird fell and needs to be recalled. We're going to work on this during the off season, all in all I'm extremely happy with her for a first year dog.
