[AnAmericanMother]

A Lab that can retrieve, hunt, and handle up to a HRCh standard is as tough to achieve as a good livestock dog.

My older Lab spent so much time in her formative years with Border collies (she started life as an agility dog) that she likes to herd, although she isn't very good at it.

But it's a pleasure to watch her handle to a tight blind, or dig a mallard out of the cattails in a stick pond, or run a 120-yard double in an overgrown field.

[Mr Rogers]

I didn’t mean to denigrate Labs. I don’t hunt, but I love to watch a good Lab work.