Originally Posted by
barry581
I'd much rather see them a bit small, than too big. The main thing for me in the overall outline. Does the dog actually look like a Labrador? Alas, nowadays, no one seems to really know what they are supposed to look like from the dogs I've seen.
Go back about 14 years when my friends we here in the US judging several shows in the northeast. They came to visit us once the shows were done. When they arrived they saw my girl Fannie, and they asked why isn't she being shown, going on to say she would have easily placed first amongst the dogs they had judged. I told them her former owners said she was too small. They both looked at me with pained expressions and said she would be a show winning bitch back in the UK. I never measured Fannie, but she was almost identical in size to Sophie, who is right at 21.5".