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Originally Posted by C_U_Next_Tuesday
Servergenious, sounds like your lab is part New foundland..they are instinctively water rescue dogs.
My black lab is 125 lbs and a mix w/ something like a mastiff..has the big round head. He has no hunting skills, but is a great protector.
this thread needs more dog pics.
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Yeah you could be right....he does have a pedigree but it doesn't mention
anything about newfoundland or Canadian labrador retriever. I've seen those
many times and though he does have the size of them he's build leaner and
his head isn't as big as the ones I've seen so I'm not totally sure about that.
My dog is a louzy protector no matter what happens he NEVER barks I've
only hear him bark maybe 5 times in over 4 years time. He'll open the door
for anyone and helps carrying all my shit into the van of the burglars instead
of alerting me about something that's wrong
The only thing he is very alert to are my kids, anyone can play with them
and come near them but he'll keep his eyes on them all the time but he'll
never show any sign of agression or warnings to anyone that goes near
my kids apart from that he'll keep watching everything very concentrated.
The other funny thing is because he didn't get taught all the social skills from
his mother while he was born he doesn't understand the social rules from
other dogs.
He's not afraid of any dog but he also doesn't understand if the other dog
is agressive or not in the mood to play.....no matter what response he gets
he thinks everything means come lets play. Sometimes the other dog is
fighting and attacking and he's just jumping around them playing.....very
funny to watch.....only when they really bite him hard enough that it hurts
he'll fight back.....never ever have I see him bail out or roll over. Luckily
dangerous dogs aren't legal in Holland so it never got him and me into nasty
fights where I had to step in between.
I gave up on trying to teach him those skills after months of wrestling with
him and rolling him over so he couldn't move anymore....still he was wipping
his tail like crazy and behaved insanely happy. It seems that the few dogs
who started fights with him also gave up within seconds once they noticed
that the signs they displayed all turned out to be without any effect.
Once he made himself a target in a group with 3 other dogs and exactly
the same happened.....3 dogs trying to explain him their ranks by trying to
dominate him and idiot just ran around in circles thinking they were all
playing some silly game
None of this I consider a problem so from all the dogs I had before this one
this is by far the most friendly, funny, loving dog I ever had. I don't know
too much about his background as I bought him in Spain when I just moved
there and walked into a supermarket where they sold dogs....He just arrived
a day before in the store I just couldn't leave him there behind.
His pedigree says he's originally from Hungary so I'm sure he's from some
asshole commercial breeder instead of from a reputable labrador breeder.
Apart from that his character is 100% as it should be for a lab and he's
perfectly healthy and extremely well built.....sometimes I wondered if
he's been on steriods or something big dog, not fat but not skinny either
but very muscular. You can see his muscles very clearly in his rear legs.
I'll post some pics as soon as I found them....so you can see what I mean
