Chesapeake Bay Retriever

[Blue_Runner]

Sorry to hear that Frank. Hope the little girl is ok.

[Pipe_Dream]

Originally Posted by willy

I have also seen the same thing in Labs, just not to the same degree and it is much more rare thing.
With each breed generally speaking you have trade offs, and they are all great in my book. Bred to a purpose.

Very true. A friend with many years of veterinary experience told me that she has seen ill-tempered dogs of nearly every breed, even Labs. It's important to get to know your breeder, and meet both parents of the pup you want to adopt.

[willy]

Very good point Pipe and that is what I have done for the last three hunting dogs I have owned.
Also if any of you fellows knows a good breeder of Labs that may have pups available let me know. Hunting lines and a personal prefernce due to hair inside of a yellow.

Willy: I have a breeder widow that is in somewhat of a bind as her husband died christmas day and she has pups from three litters plus a litter due in mid january and several other yellow labs..Her name is Vickie and she lives in Farmville NC. Her home number is 252-827-4568 and the cell is 252-813-8678 . As of yesterday she had 2 males and 1 female left from the 8week old litter , 4 males and 2 females left from the 12 week old litter and 3 males and 1 female from the 14 week old litter..She owns all the females and they are on site plus other adult labs including 3 nice black females..The stud of all the puppies is a big blocky yellow champion named Whitehouse Dirty Dealing Dan who is currently in texas at some big field trial with a professional handler. The pups are all yellow, AKC,UKC,OFA certified hips, Hunting and field bloodlines etc. I got my little pup from her and since he was one of the older ones she only charged me $250 with out all the stud papers and show titles etc but she will show them to you. If you want one of the little ones its $500 a pup with all papers..She really does not know very much about the business as it was her husbands hobby and now she has all these dogs on her hands and the older they get the harder they are to sell especially in rural north carolina.I am not a dog expert by any means but my Vet was so impressed with the pup that she and may end up buying one of the older pups for her duck hunter husband...Frank

[frayed_knot]

Sorry to hear that Frank. I had a Chessie / Lab mix. Absolutley the best dog I have ever known. He was huge at 150 lbs in his good days. He was black and had that Chessie curly fur down his back. We had to put him down at 9 years old because of cancer. I wish I could have another one just like him. Now we have 3 little good for nothing dogs, but we love them.

We had friends when we lived in Alaska that had Chessies, and you did not just walk up to the door when they were outside, even if you knew them. The breed is fiercly loyal to ONE owner. Just the way they are.

[willy]

Frank it is a little to far for me, though it does sound interesting. But I would not be able to see the sire which is important to me. I think I will keep my eye open within a few hours of me here in Jersey.
I have two Brittanies now and they are great upland dogs. I had the Springer that I used for everything but he loved the jump shooting ducks in the rivers and ponds around here. Have not hunted ducks for two seasons now and want to get back into it. Want a Lab because I would like to hunt bigger waters and also do some combo hunts where I will be flushing up pheasants during the day and early morning waterfowl. The Britts are the foshizzle on upland birds and if you get an oppurtunity some day maybe you can head up here and we will hit Pennsy and New York state for grouse. Think about it ;)