“And that is a circular argument that arrives at a steaming pile of crap. You have just totally discounted all instinct for all animals. Pretty good for first try. Let me make this peerfectlyclear. If you want a retriever buy a lab, if you want a stock dog buy a border collie, if you want a pointing dog for hunting then buy a Brittany spanial.”
So, have you any experience with labs going on unstoppable fetching sprees? Is there no hope for these dogs to be anything other than what they were bred for decades ago? My mother had a black lab. She wouldn’t get NEAR water, didn’t care for fetching anything, and was dog-aggressive to the point that she once jumped out of the window of a moving car to attack another dog.
The most recent experience I have had with black labs was last week when I was attacked by one, along with three other dogs (one looked like a dachshund, another like a spitz, and another was a little ankle biter) while trying to save a cat from being ripped apart.
I had to get rabies shots directly in each puncture wound, as well as a single shot four more times on different days. I spent the first night in the ER and was able to go home with antibiotics and pain medicine, but I have been back to the hospital three times now. No news outlet has called, no police showed up, nothing. Animal control wasn’t even going to do anything, but since they received notification from the public health department, they were forced to call me. They didn’t even go to the street where the dogs are to find them.
But hey, labs were bred to retrieve waterfowl instinctually, so maybe I smelled like chicken?
I told the story recently of the farmer two farms down
who took his Lab, his gun and a shovel
for a walk to the back woods and came back alone.
Seems the Lab had “fetched” the farmers wife.