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I think you make a good argument. However, (and this is interesting...) the UK field labs are almost indistinguishable from the US/ and Canadian labs now-a-days. And their (British) style of...

Partly, I think you mistook what I meant to say (and I probably was misleading.) The point is that field people are NOT indifferent to how their dogs look. If they can have the coat, the head, the...

What if the absolute perfect conformation dog was bred that met all of the AKC standards to a tee and that dog was also a FC? Why can't that exist? And would field people not want a dog like that?
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Annette... I agree with you. Are you able to identify any FC's AFC's or MNC's (who might have photo's on line) who in your opinion trend toward the breed standard? I know there are tons that don't....

For example, in my experience, field Labs get their knees blown out more often than conformation Labs. This may not actually be a statistic, but I personally have yet to meet a well-bred conformation...

Brings us back to my form-function confusion. I don't think his body type was any different than the breed standard (going by photos and his pedigree.) My sense is that structurally, SuperChief was...

I stipulated that I'm a field person and have confessed ignorance about the "inside baseball" of conformation standards and practices. Thank you for bearing with me. (Really... it can be boring to...

Not being a conformation person, sometimes I am foggy on the whole form-function thing. There is a "moderately broad chest." OK... I'm guessing you're speaking about an inherited, skeletal thing. ...

After I posted that question, (probably after a glass of wine...) I started to think about what would happen if AKC recognized a "new breed", "the American Field Labrador Retriever". Knowing how...

Really? That is interesting. Just going by the griping I've heard on my end of the spectrum, you'd think there had been a conspiracy to take over the LRC by the conformation breeders. That's...

Full disclosure: I own field labs.

Is there still any talk about splitting the breed into the two phenotypes or has that talk gone away? I think it blew up the last time the breed standard was...