I agree with you to a point, I just see a bunch of people, freinds of freinds, people here, wherever I duck hunt, and what not buying these labs at great deals, from freinds, and expecting them to be great hunters without training them, or even if they try to train them, and their not, and allot of them have health problems too, and then they say their going to breed them and sell the pups to make money for a new gun or whatever, it all does stem from their popularity, and just like every other popular dog breed, the breed suffers from it, I've trained lots of dogs, and by far, the more rare the breed the more true the dog to it's correct disposition and attitude, there might be differences between each breed as far as training goes, but I feel that it's very minor, I would think even a first timer could overcome that with ease, I don't think dogs should be 200 dollars, the more something costs the more effort you will put into it to turn it into what it's supposed to be, you don't take a 40k car through the brush, ya know what I'm getting at, I just think that labs as a breed have been suffering for a while, and allot, almost all hunters think they can get one and it will live a long healthy life as a great gun dog, and it's just not as true as if they got a more rare breed. True?? I think so anyway's, thanks for not bashing me too bad :salude:
I've been goin off about the lab thing for a while, but It's still happening and it's still bothering me.