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My new lab is in heat. Help me. Any advice.
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 605809" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Labs are popular because they are active. And of course your avarage lab from show/pet lineages is not that active after all. When you walk them hour and half or two hours a day (much of that without leash) and train them regularly or let them play play ball with kids or make up some little nose work, they are happy and relaxed. </p><p></p><p>I'm planning taking a lab puppy next. And I do +plan to take it from hunting/field trial/working lineage because I'm looking for puppy to train for search and rescue dog and 90 % of pet/show lineage labs are simply too heavy build and too inactive for that. And even those labs are a far cry from activity level of more independently working hunting dogs (my in-laws have and have had few; local rabbit hounds and elk hounds and German pointers. Those dogs and activity level; well let just say that father in law drives about 15 miles with bicycle with them three times a week on top of walking them at least two or three hours a day just to keep them good-enough shape outside of hunting season. The hounds may easily hunt twelve hours a day and ran 50-70 miles during it (they have gps locators on their collars so their exact route can be seen) and they have to still be forced back home from working after that kind of day. They are tireless.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 605809, member: 14557"] Labs are popular because they are active. And of course your avarage lab from show/pet lineages is not that active after all. When you walk them hour and half or two hours a day (much of that without leash) and train them regularly or let them play play ball with kids or make up some little nose work, they are happy and relaxed. I'm planning taking a lab puppy next. And I do +plan to take it from hunting/field trial/working lineage because I'm looking for puppy to train for search and rescue dog and 90 % of pet/show lineage labs are simply too heavy build and too inactive for that. And even those labs are a far cry from activity level of more independently working hunting dogs (my in-laws have and have had few; local rabbit hounds and elk hounds and German pointers. Those dogs and activity level; well let just say that father in law drives about 15 miles with bicycle with them three times a week on top of walking them at least two or three hours a day just to keep them good-enough shape outside of hunting season. The hounds may easily hunt twelve hours a day and ran 50-70 miles during it (they have gps locators on their collars so their exact route can be seen) and they have to still be forced back home from working after that kind of day. They are tireless.) [/QUOTE]
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