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Location: West London, UK
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15-03-2011, 04:35 PM
Originally Posted by Moon's Mum 
I quite like labradors but tend to avoid them on walks around here! We get A LOT of people who get them because they have a rep for being the perfect family pet. They expect them to just train themselves and naturally be perfect and don't realise that they are a working breed that needs lots of exercise. The result is a lot of fat, hyper labs who go totally nuts when they do actually get walked and have no training or self restraint....but that's fine because "he's friendly!". It's not the dogs fault, it tends to be lazy owners who get them because they think they will automatically be "easy". The lazy owner would never go to a proper breeder....so make that fat, hyper, poorly bred, under exercised labs and you can see why I tend to skirt around them. They are left to belt around at their own devices. Mostly the dogs mean well, they are just totally nuts, but I've met some fairly huffy ones too (I suspect lack of exercise means also lack of socialisation, these labs tend to put up hackles and be defensive). The Lab situation around here makes me sad
Have to confess one of my bug bears is owners of young labs who think it's ok to let their ten tons of adolescent exuberance bounce all over my dogs because "they only want to play".
They may not have an aggressive bone in their body but they could still do mine some damage, never mind the fact that it winds my dogs up. 
J.
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15-03-2011, 04:40 PM
Originally Posted by Mother*ship
Spot on!
Have to confess one of my bug bears is owners of young labs who think it's ok to let their ten tons of adolescent exuberance bounce all over my dogs because "they only want to play".
They may not have an aggressive bone in their body but they could still do mine some damage, never mind the fact that it winds my dogs up. J.
But I do know when to get Louie to calm down or put him back on lead.
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15-03-2011, 05:23 PM
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15-03-2011, 09:24 PM
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15-03-2011, 09:31 PM
what is it about many of them that makes them think their dogs dont need leads?
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15-03-2011, 09:41 PM
neither scenario includes an owner carrying a lead with them.
sadly, i see both scenarios all too often.
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15-03-2011, 10:47 PM
Originally Posted by Krusewalker
lab and staffie owners.
what is it about many of them that makes them think their dogs dont need leads?
In fairness, I see plenty of dogs in my area who are walked without leads - never seen a Lab or a Staffie yet though.
Owners who walk dogs without leads, near traffic etc, are my pet hate - I think they are unbelievably careless to the point of being neglectful.
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Location: Preston
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16-03-2011, 12:40 AM
Another black Labrador has bitten Milo and two more have gone for him and Ellie. So as you can imagine I'm very wary of black labradors I'll always stand between my dogs and one if one approaches. However have met lovely yellow and chocolate labs
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16-03-2011, 01:00 AM
Please don't forget to use your "some, may, often" and not your "all, are, everyones" because personally I'm quite a good lab owner...
Lol
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