Re: American Labradors? English Labradors? I'm afraid I had to leave a comment to say we have plenty of both here
Re: American Labradors? English Labradors? I have removed the link above as the website concerned contains a number of articles which are re-written versions of original articles written by me. The person in question has not responded to requests to take down the material he has plagiarised, and I shall therefore not be giving him the benefit of traffic from this website. You weren't to know Roz, so I apologise for having to interfere with your post.
Re: American Labradors? English Labradors? Quite right too! I know how it feels to have others nab your stuff as their own.
Re: American Labradors? English Labradors? In America they refer show dogs as English labs. They refer to American labs as we do working labs. It's a fair comparison just different terminology lost in translation.
Re: American Labradors? English Labradors? Can I ask?.. I have a friend who has a black lab about 9 months old. To look at her you wouldn't recognise her a full lab. She is so small and has a very pointy face, my friend says she is an American lab. Are there any real differences. I know every lab/retriever has their own look, some big, some small, chunky, thin etc. I looked in my book and American lab means that it was just born there. This confuses me?....
Re: American Labradors? English Labradors? It depends who you talk to... As Tillydyes says an American lab is what we, in the UK, would call a working lab and an English lab is what we would call a show lab. Show and working lines seem to have become increasingly divergent as each area breeds for different purposes. However I believe that in the purest sense a labrador is any dog that your country kennel club will register as a labrador and you see a great range of shapes and sizes within that. That is not to devalue dogs that are labs without KC papers or indeed any other kind of dog. I'm a dog fan in general and by no means wedded to the idea that breeds, showing and kennel clubs are always the best thing for dogs (but that's a whole other topic!)
