One size does not fit all.

While there are propensities to any breed, owners wield much influence!I. . When i was in Kotzebue, a neighbor acquired a yellow Lab for a hunting pard, well - it was white- I was the receiving agent for the airline at the airport. I took the pup out of the cage and he slobbered all over me after I was done with the flight, but not like when Dean got there. The dog instinctively knew who he was to go with! Un fortunately for Dean, the dog came from a "personal Assistant line". No hunting/ retrieving instinct at all! Big 100# plus dog -Loved to play with my Lab tho- and at 2 years old was given away to a family with 5 kids - that dogs's idea of heaven - and replaced with a "real" Lab, who a couple years later warned Dean of a stalking grizzly, coming silently through the brush while they were waterfowl hunting. Killed with a load of birdshot at 5 yards.

That "stupid" thing would just sit there while my Lab would race around and around and and jump back and forth over the top of him.
ird gitter!

Last edited by las; 12/25/23.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.