Westminster

[bardern]

Did anyone catch the Westminster Sporting dog group, the show breeders have managed to come up with an abomination of a Labrador. It that dog is representative of what an ideal Lab should be it spells ruin for that line of the breed. The thing was huge, fat and plodded around the stage like a pot bellied pig. Ten minutes in the field and the thing would have a coronary.

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

LOL! Not my idea of a lab. Mine is an eating machine & if she had it her way she would look like that too...

[yellow dog]

It's been like that for many years unfortunately and would take many generations to undue if at all possible. Personally I consider it two completely separate breeds. The couch lab and the working lab.

[bardern]

not to the level I saw last night.

[MikePal]

After events like the GSD fiasco at the Kennel Club back in March, you can see why these show and clubs are becoming redundant and memberships are dwindling.

[yellow dog]

not to the level I saw last night.

I did a show kennel tour about 7 or 8 years ago of five kennels and couldn't believe the size of these monster labs. The second year Kemptville Ontario had a dog show at the municipal centre 2007 or 2008 I attended. All the lab show people were going bananas over the lab that had won. It had to have weighed at least 100 lbs with the shortest, straightest front and rear legs I had ever seen on a lab. Overweight, no angles, too big, head looked like a Rottweiler and no personality at all. Very sad looking specimen and it was a champion .

[bardern]

I did a show kennel tour about 7 or 8 years ago of five kennels and couldn't believe the size of these monster labs. The second year Kemptville Ontario had a dog show at the municipal centre 2007 or 2008 I attended. All the lab show people were going bananas over the lab that had won. It had to have weighed at least 100 lbs with the shortest, straightest front and rear legs I had ever seen on a lab. Overweight, no angles, too big, head looked like a Rottweiler and no personality at all. Very sad looking specimen and it was a champion .

exactly what I saw last night. Irony is that my vet took a photo of my MBL to send in to his alma mater as to what the ideal hunt lab looks like and Guage looks nothing like the beast you just described.

[RJAGSP]

My wife shows American cockers and tries to keep her breedings in the standard, but when you look at the competition the dogs are all over the place. Besides the breeders changing them up the judges are allowing these dogs to become chmpions by awarding them the wins.
As far as hunting ability these cockers are show dogs and that's it no interest in birds or other animals had a cotton tail rabbit in the yard and 3 cockers ran past it in the middle of the mowed lawn the rabbit sat still and the dogs played running within a foot of it with no interest until the rabbit decided it was time to leave 1 gave a bit of chase then gave up after only ten feet.
I am glad my GSP is hunting dog and working with her is grate

[Sharon]

LOL Even my JRT would have had that rabbit in a second.

[bardern]

Sharon a JRT worth its salt would have had that rabbit in one half second and would be looking for the next dozen lol. I am sure yours is no different.