Say No To Silver Labs

[TORNER RETRIEVERS]

your right the pioneers do deserve our respect and they deserve to have there breeds unchanged. too bad for you that they were bred to WORK a certain way, not LOOK a certain way.

i'm sorry to let you down, but they're made to retrieve as well as to look. there are tons of breeds which can retrieve, there are also mutts which can retrieve. the looks of the labrador are what makes them unique, a single breed.

[cali]

and yet there are show bred and feild bred which look nothing alike aint that funny?

[TORNER RETRIEVERS]

and yet there are show bred and feild bred which look nothing alike aint that funny?

actually it's not funny. please, take a look to the sites of reputable breeders and find out that they also have hunting champions which look as they're suposed to.

[.sarah]

actually it's not funny. please, take a look to the sites of reputable breeders and find out that they also have hunting champions which look as they're suposed to.

If you could please direct me to those sites ... I hardly *ever* see Show Labs that hunt as well. I think that's awesome! I don't like it when the dog is only shown in conformation and comes from conformation lines only. I see that far too often with this breed. I already don't consider Show Labs to be the same breed as Field Labs, because they are so different.

[TORNER RETRIEVERS]

If you could please direct me to those sites ... I hardly *ever* see Show Labs that hunt as well. I think that's awesome! I don't like it when the dog is only shown in conformation and comes from conformation lines only. I see that far too often with this breed. I already don't consider Show Labs to be the same breed as Field Labs, because they are so different.

These are a few labs with retrieving skills and good conformation. (i'll be adding as i'm finding them)

http://www.dickendall.com/tim.html
http://www.dickendall.com/chuck.html
http://www.dickendall.com/anslo.html
http://www.dickendall.com/drifter.html
http://www.dickendall.com/remmy.html
http://www.dickendall.com/ruffy.html
http://www.dickendall.com/orange.html
http://www.dickendall.com/arnold.html

http://www.belquest.com/aaron.html
http://www.belquest.com/knight.html

http://www.windfalllabs.com/Abbey/index.htm
http://www.windfalllabs.com/stormy/index.htm

http://www.hyspire.com/bandit.html

[cali]

oh I know there are some show dogs that can work, but the work should be the primarly goal, if one wants to breed for a certain look it should be secondary to the work itself. the orgilnal intent of the conformation ring was to judge working dogs on their outward appearence, then some poeple got competive and decided to ignore the work and focas on the look, this is where the split began, then the people who started breeding for the certain look began to dominate in that aspect, and shadowed out the working bred, they atrted to believe that they were supierior, yet its they they deviated from the the real breed.

[TORNER RETRIEVERS]

oh I know there are some show dogs that can work, but the work should be the primarly goal, if one wants to breed for a certain look it should be secondary to the work itself. the orgilnal intent of the conformation ring was to judge working dogs on their outward appearence, then some poeple got competive and decided to ignore the work and focas on the look, this is where the split began, then the people who started breeding for the certain look began to dominate in that aspect, and shadowed out the working bred, they atrted to believe that they were supierior, yet its they they deviated from the the real breed.

i'm sorry, but i think you have no idea what a beauty show is.
yes, breeds were made to achieve certain goals such as herding, hunting, retrieveing, etc.
when people stopped hunting for a living these breeds we're drastically reduced, until a bunch of people with a lot of money decided to give life to the breed once again.

without the necessity for hunting dogs, this group of people decided to compete for beauty, creating different lines to "fill the eye" of type judges. this got a little out of hand and then they realized that these dogs still needed the skills which they're bred to have.

so..don't be so sure that skills are the only purpose of a dog. if had it been that way, we wouldn't have any working breed this days.