My point was that alot of people have worked VERY hard to breed different things in and out of certain breeds.

No not EVERY lab is going to love water, but like someone else said, most of them will and that's what alot of people look at.

This is also the reason that different dog breeds are used for different things(bloodhounds are usually use for sniffing/searching, GSD's for police dogs..etc).

I just look at it that way, there are so many breeds because there is basically a breed for most families and most lifestyles, and alot of them come pretty close to how they are "suposed" to be.

Also nothing is "out of hand" at the moment, but I just want to say please lets keep this in a discussion mode