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- Subject: Re: Obedience v. Breed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.190017.11638@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:00:17 GMT
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- In article <9212221340.AA11508@waverunner.dcrt.nih.gov>, young@alw.nih.gov
- writes:
- >In article <1h5aucINNn2l@morrow.stanford.edu> you write:
- >|> 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.
- >
- >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?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- A matter of opinion (as, of course, is the breed ring :+)
-
- >And how in the world did the sleeker dog come to be preferred as a cold
- >water retriever over the stockier build.
-
- I believe the rangier dog became popular because it was much faster,
- and field trials are timed events. The dogs with AFC/FC in their
- lines tend to be speed demons - tall, thin, hyper labs. Here in the
- NE, the show dogs are mostly "English type", which are shorter and
- stockier (the English standard calls for a height a full inch
- shorter than the AKC). I like to think of the ideal lab as something
- in between the two types (field and show).
-
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