Labrador Retriever

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN England

MOST SUITED AS Field sports dog, guide dog for the blind, drug: search dogs, and family pet among numerous roles.

SIZE
The shoulder-height is 56 - 77cm (22 - 22in) for dogs and 54 - 56cm (21 1/2 - 22in) for bitches.

COAT
The coat is thick and dense with a weather-resistant undercoat. The Labrador's colours are plain black, yellow, or chocolate brown (liver). A small white marking on the chest is permissible.

CARE REQUIRED
The coat is not difficult to care for. Brush it once a week and give it more attention during moulting.

CHARACTER
The Labrador Retrieve is a friendly, good-natured, intelligent dog that is keen to work, is obedient, sociable, affectionate, pliable, sensible, thoughtful, loyal, with an outstanding good scenting nose. Labradors mature quite late bodily and mentally.

TRAINING
The Labrador Retriever is an intelligent dog that is not difficult to train because it learns quickly and likes to work for its handler. It is a great pity if such a dog can do nothing more than be a pet.
They are excellent field sports and search dogs, but they also excel in obedience competitions. If you partake in any of these activities, you will see how much pleasure it gives this dog.

SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
This breed usually gets on fine with other dogs and animals. With children they are both patient and good-natured but that is not strange because they are true friends to humans, which does not make them particularly vigilant.

EXERCISE
They will adapt themselves completely to your family but do not forget they need quite a lot of exercise. Take them for fairly long walks and give them the chance to run and play off the lead. They are crazy about water and retrieving.