History About Labs

 HISTORY ABOUT LABRADORS


LABRADORS WERE ORIGINALLY FOUND, NOT IN LABRADOR AS THE NAME IMPLIES ,
BUT IN NEWFOUNDLAND, WHERE THEY WERE USED BY COD FISHERMAN. WITH A SHORT DENSE COAT, THEY WERE WELL SUITED TO COPE WITH THE FREEZING SALT SPRAY AND SNOWY AND ICY NEAR ARCTIC WINDS.
THEY WERE EXPECTED TO RETRIEVE THE FISH THAT SLIPPED OUT OF THE NET , THEY WOULD ALSO CARRY THE ROPE END FROM THE BOAT TO SHAW .
THEY WERE STRONGLY BUILT SO THEY COULD PULL A HEAVY SLAY CARRYING FIREWOOD , BARRELS OF FISH AND MUCH MORE ,
ALL THE ACTIVITIES TOOK PLACE IN TERRIBLE WEATHER CONDITIONS , THUS NEEDING DENSE WATER PROOF COAT ,

MOST EARLY LABRADORS WERE BLACK, THE YELLOW MAKING ITS APPEARANCE WHEN, IN 1889 , HYDE BEN WAS WHELPED IN A LITTER OF BLACKS FROM BLACK PARENTS . THE ODD YELLOW CONTINUED TO TURN UP AND WERE REGARDED AS GREAT SUSPICION AND WERE MOSTLY DROWNED UNTIL TWO PEOPLE SAW THEIR POSSIBILITIES AND PROCEEDED TO ESTABLISH THE COLOUR, AND SO THE YELLOWS OF TODAY OUT NUMBER THE BLACKS TODAY .
CHOCOLATES WERE WELL KNOWN IN ENGLAND AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AND TODAY FORM AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE BREED .

IN 1916 THE LABRADOR CLUB IN ENGLAND WAS FORMED TO ENSURE PURITY OF THE BREED , AND IT WAS THEY WHO DREW UP THE STANDARD .
THE STANDARD TODAY IS SOUNDNESS, ACTIVE COUPLED WITH STRENGTH AND BUILD ,
THE 3 MAIN POINTS THE HEAD ,COAT AND OTTER TAIL .
LABRADORS HAVE AN EASY GOING TEMPERAMENT AND ARE VERY EASY TO TRAIN .
 

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