Not only great family companions, they also excel at hunting, tracking, retrieving, guiding and rescuing. The Labrador was the ship’s assistant that would leap into the icy Atlantic Ocean to retrieve pots, lines and nets.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I’ve even been woken in the morning by a happy Labrador holding my wife’s bra and my children’s shorts. The historical account of the lineage of the Labrador and of the personalities engaged with bringing the dogs to the UK and the subsequent distribution of blood lines was really interesting but it rather ran out of steam thereafter. On the terminology of dogs: As for sex, I have only ever known girls dogs, or bitches to give them their correct terminology. Yet although house dogs like Inca tend to be less athletic, there is such a thing as an athletic Labrador – some, particularly those bred for fieldworking skills, are particularly fast and athletic.One of the dogs in Robert Burns’ poem, The Twa Dogs (1786) by His hair, his size, his mouth, his lugs/Shew’d he was nane o’ Scotland’s dogs/But whelped some place far abroad,/Where sailors gang to fish for cod. Pat McAfee is 'sick' of criticism aimed at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce after the Chiefs' AFC title victory: 'Why is everybody so mad? I say that behind every labrador there is a great man: Ernest Hemingway, Roald Dahl, Keith Richards, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger to name just a few.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). The easy trainability and superior intellectual capacity of Labradors make them fast at learning tricks and being able to ‘perform’. Their extraordinary capacity for companionship, their intelligence, work ethic and loyalty is captured by Ben as he weaves the story of the breed into his own story of his beloved black Labrador, Inca, who famously accompanied him on many of his incredible journeys and adventures.Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Virgin Islands (U. In keeping with the need for historical accuracy, a Lab, Roly, was cast as Lord Grantham’s dog Pharoah in Downton Abbey. Indeed, the problems with Percy, the Carnarvons’ Labrador, meant that Roly was ‘killed off’ between series one and two. The rest of the book is a lovely amble through the history of the Labrador, with smatterings of Fogle’s own doggy experiences. When Ben and inca first met Kate Humble and Inca runs straight through the house and into the fish pond, also Inca singing to the rats.