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Rueban said:
The retiever folks were saying that the field trial dogs were high strung and hard headed...had to keep a tight rein on them and will tear up the back yard if left unsupervised...did not double as pets like a hunting lab etc…etc…
I used to field trial Labs back in the 70's & can tell you, I'll take a field trial bred Lab over a hunting bred Lab anyday. I cannot stand to see a dog trot out to retrieve a bird & trot back. I want them running all out going & coming. Here is the deal. You can hunt a field trial bred Lab but you cannot field trial a Lab just trained for hunting. Like Hogdog Mike said, the tests they put these dogs thru is unbelievable. All Labs their first year or two & this goes for all the Retriever breeds will chew up everything. I will take the higher strung dog that lives for retrieving over the dog that is so nonchalant, could really care less if he goes & gets a bird or not. I have said these before & it pertains to almost every breed of dog out there, you can put brakes on a dog but you cannot put a motor in them. It has to be in them from the start. The Labs to day are two different breeds. They have the field Trial Labs & show Labs or a lot of Labs with showblood in them. Labs have become so popular that a lot of the desire to retrieve has been bred out of them & they are mostly just pets.
On the Coonhounds, the way they are set up, you heard right, they have gone to a hard hunting, hot nose dog that trees a lot of coon. Same with the running dogs. They have hunted in pens so much, they have literally bred the nose off of foxhounds because of hunting in pens.
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