Labradors

No, just pure breed...for instance I have golden lab...he almost looks like me in my avatar.:p


And by the way that's not photoshopped he really does wear shades.

Patrician,

Wow white labs...I'm glad I asked. Aren't they rare or something? I never read up on them.

And yes they are an awesome breed of dog...as far as purebreds go, Labs and Golden Retrievers are the top of the list, when you have kids especially.

Usually all I have are mutts that I have rescued and can never give away...hell they wouldn't go anyway...animals know when they are part of the family and loved,

You know something Kurt?

I was going to ask how you figure...but I'll be ..

That mama sure did look like a cross of a Lab.



and oh yea *sniff*:p

Years ago a friend I was staying with had a dog that would do that. He was part lab and part great dane. One day when we weren't home the dog warden came to the house to tell us we needed to keep Herc on a leash. He walked up the steps to the door and knocked. When he turned to leave Herc was at the bottom of the steps, blocking his escape
The guy was still there waiting on us (as we found out from a neighbor) 3 hours after he had arrived.
We lived on a short dirt road in the country. Herc wouldn't chase cars, he would stand in front of them and stop them. One day this idiot decided to hit Herc with his car. So he hit him broadside at about 10 mph. It knocked Herc down, but he immediately got up and growled at the car, keeping the guy there till Bob and I came out to see what was going on. Herc was a big dog, but Bob was also a big dude. That guy ended up having a really bad day.
I should add that Herc was really a gentle dog. If he had to detain you with force, he would gently bite your wrist just hard enough to hold you there till Bob or I showed up. We where not so gentle

I've lived in the San Diego area (mostly East County) 7-8-9 different times over the course of my life time...My Mom was born in SD and my favorite aunt and cousins still live there. I actually drove a cab in SD for a very short while, not a great cab town.

I've moved between Colorado, Las Vegas and San Diego quite a bit over the past 30+ years or so...I like things about them all. But I could only afford a one-way ticket, so I would move instead of going on vacation.

But no, I never visited the bar...I'm guessing it's in Chula Vista?

After I lost my rotty, it was literally 3 full years before I could walk down the pet aisle at the grocery store. I'm serious, if there was something else I needed down that aisle, I'd have to go to another store, or I would have broken down in tears.

And yep, rotties are great search dogs and at one time it was actually a rotty that held the world record for oldest "tracks".

The Roman armies used them to herd cattle by day, (they used cattle to feed their armies), and at nite the rotties would guard the prisoners. They've also been used as draught dogs, hauling milk and beer to market. They've done more than their share to help mankind.

I was going to go to schutzhund school with mine, which is part protection, part obedience and part tracking and all the commands are in German.

My ex asked, "Are you sure you can learn German"?

I replied, "If he can learn German, I think I can too."...We both laughed.

He was very well trained (by me) and obedient. I wanted to take him to schutzhund training more as a hobby than him needing training. Schutzhund training also increases the stud fee he would have gotten...

And they are very smart...When he was about 1 1/2 years old, I dropped an ice cube on the floor. I said, "Go get your ice cube" and he did. This surprised me as he was never taught what an ice cube was.

But, I wasn't convinced he really understood me, so I said "Go get your frisbee". He had a toy box that he knew that everything in it was his, and he wasn't allowed to touch anything that wasn't in his box.

He went over to his toy box and started rooting through it and pulled out his frisbee.

My ex and I just looked at each other...So I said, "Go get your ball". He went to his toy box and picked out his ball.

Then I said, "Go get your leash"...He went into our bedroom and brought out his leash.

We didn't teach him any of this. We just talked to him constantly and he picked it up on his own...

Not only are they smart, they are quirky. I used to tease mine that his "weirdness" must be due to all that inbreeding rotties went through...Yes, I'd tease him, he deserved it.

As far as herding, here's an episode from Cesar I happened to catch on TV. The video is short, but this rotty had no herding training at all, and Cesar took him to herd some sheep to get some exercise. Watch his herding instincts take over...Again, this is the first time this rotty ever saw sheep and had zero herding training:

There really are White Labs, found a few pictures.

Some for sale as "White Labs"

Labs and pits have one thing in common - they are lively which makes training a must and many amateur owners don't do even basic training. It's sad when you visit an animal shelter as so many of the abandoned dogs are labs and pits. Nothing wrong with them except they are active and high spirited and can be destructive with puppy chewing.

The lab personality is so great that any breed mixed with lab is a great dog in my experience.

I've had a chow-lab and a lab-retreiver (the parents were prebreds) and they were dogs that kept the best of each breed characteristic. They were the sweetest dogs and I had Sheba and Sylvie for 15 and 13 years.

I've had German German Shepherds (lost Wrex in 2006 and still miss him). Love rotties though I've never had one - have been friends with a few of them.

Roaddog - I see your point in starting this thread - but you have a lot of dog lovers here.:p

kay

That's pretty much what I believed for a while now Charlotte, Ive seen so many different colors lately I thought maybe something changed.

Thanks for the resource.

Thats fine Kay...most threads I start are kind of 'open ended' anyway
I like to hear peoples dog experiences, as a dog lover myself.


Jim