Yellow Labrador Retrievers For Sale
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Excerpt from the Labrador Retriever Standard
from the AKC:
"General Appearance: The Labrador Retriever is a strongly built, medium-sized, short-coupled, dog possessing a sound, athletic, well-balanced conformation that enables it to function as a retrieving gun dog; the substance and soundness to hunt waterfowl or upland game for long hours under difficult conditions; the character and quality to win in the show ring; and the temperament to be a family companion. Physical features and mental characteristics should denote a dog bred to perform as an efficient Retriever of game with a stable temperament suitable for a variety of pursuits beyond the hunting environment."
History of the Labrador Retriever
The Labrador Retriever was developed in England in the mid 1800s by a
handful of private kennels dedicated to developing and refining the
perfect gundog. That many such kennels were pursuing their own vision
of such a dog is the reason behind the variety of today's retriever
breeds.
Early ancestors
It's fairly clear that there were no indigenous dogs in Newfoundland
when the first fishing companies arrived. If the native Americans of
the time had any, the explorers never observed them. Thus it's quite
likely that the St. Johns dogs themselves come from old English Water
Dogge breeds, insofar as fishermen were the primary people on
Newfoundland for centuries. There is also some speculation that the
old St. Hubert's dog might have been brought over as well --
illustrations of the breed show a black, drop-eared dog with a certain
resemblance to the Labrador. But it is unknown if the fishermen going
to Newfoundland would have had hound dogs used for game rather than
water dogs.
We can only speculate what happened, but we do know that the cod
fishermen sent out from Britain practiced "shore fishing." Small
dories were used for the actual fishing, and they worked in teams of
four -- two in the boat and two on the shore to prepare and cure the
fish. They would have needed a small dog to get in and out of the
boat, with a short water repellent coat so as not to bring all the
water into to the boats with them. They would have bred for a strong
retrieving instinct to help retrieve fish and swimming lines, and a
high degree of endurance to work long hours. If the runs were heavy,
the fishermen were reputed to go for as long as twenty hours to haul
the fish in.
The dog developed for this early work could be found in several
varieties: a smaller one for the fishing boats, and a larger one with
a heavier coat for drafting. The smaller dog has been called,
variously, the Lesser St. John's dog, the Lesser Newfoundland, or even
the Labrador. These dogs came from Newfoundland; it is unknown why the
name "Labrador" was chosen except possibly through geographical
confusion. Charles Eley, in History of Retrievers at the end of the
19th century comments:
The story [...] was that the first Labrador to reach England swam
ashore from vessels which brought cod from Newfoundland [...] It
was claimed for them that their maritime existence [...] had
resulted in webbed feet, a coat impervious to water like that of an
otter, and a short, thick 'swordlike' tail, with which to steer
safely their stoutly made frames amid the breakers of the ocean.
Part of the confusion over the names is that "St. John's dog" and
"Newfoundland dog" were used interchangeably for both the greater
(larger) and lesser (smaller) varieties. And the term Labrador has
also been used to refer to the lesser St. John's dog, especially in
the latter half of the 19th century. The greater is commonly held to
be the direct ancestor of today's Newfoundland, while the lesser was
used to develop many of the retrieving breeds, including today's
Labrador.
The exact relationship between the two varieties of the St. Johns dog
(and some 19th century writers listed up to four varieties) is also
unclear; we don't know which came first, or to what degree they were
related. Certainly the greater St. Johns dog was first imported to
England nearly a hundred years earlier, and many contemporary and
modern day writers assume that the lesser was developed from the
greater but we have no real evidence one way or another. Newfoundland
has been used for fishing and other activities since approximately
1450 so there has been plenty of time for the development of the St.
Johns dog and its varieties.
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