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- From: young@alw.nih.gov
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- Subject: Re: Obedience v. Breed
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:40:51 -0600
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- In article <1h5aucINNn2l@morrow.stanford.edu> you write:
- |> In article <9212211433.AA11101@waverunner.dcrt.nih.gov> young@alw.nih.gov writes:
- |> >No, you can add the English and Irish setters, but why? The show standard
- |> >for labs, tall, sleek, leggy is hardly what you'd want for a water dog.
- |> >Good water dogs in comparison look short and fat. Just what are the show
- |> >people breeding for? Some arbitrary measure of good looks?
- |> I can't stand this. The show standard for labs calls for the dogs
- |> to be "tall, sleek, and leggy"? ARE YOU KIDDING?????? Have you ever seen
- |> a lab ring? Show labs tend to be shorter than field labs, stockier than
- |> field labs and the criticism I've heard of show labs is completely the
- |> opposite of "tall, sleek, and leggy." I've only heard complaints from
- |> field folk that show labs tend to be short and fat.
- |>
- |> But for the record, here is the current Labrador breed standard:
- |>
- |>
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- Guilty as charged, I haven't seen many show rings at all and quite by design.
- Having seen both of these dogs, I just assumed that the shorter, stockier
- and uglier of the two was the working dog. If the working dogs are the
- better looking of the two, how in the world did the show lab come to be?
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- And how in the world did the sleeker dog come to be preferred as a cold
- water retriever over the stockier build.
-
- A lot less abrasive sarcasm would go a long way.
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