Innumerable dogs on the Lafayette Reservoir Lower Trail this morning. Of the innumerable dogs seen, a large proportion--48 animals--were retrievers, and of those 48 retrievers some 22 were yellow labradors...
Posted by DeLong at September 1, 2003 11:52 AM | TrackBack
Around here black labs are more common than yellow, but they in turn are outnumbered--in a proportion that increases too swiftly to estimate--by dogs that are 50% black lab. If things continue as they are, in fifty years every dog in the world will be 50% black lab.
Never met a labrador I didn't like.
Posted by: Ian Welsh on September 1, 2003 10:24 PMThe black color of labs is dominant over the yellow
color (first generation all black, second generation
black with probability 3/4) which helps to explain why
you see so many identifiable black-labbish crosses.
My dog looks like a skinny black lab but she is genetically 1/2 chocolate lab, 1/4 black lab, 1/4 golden,
probably with traces of some smaller breed as well.
I recommend Cary Tennis' 8/26 advice column in
_Salon_ for dog owners and those who would understand them.
Dave MB
That column in Salon is most emphatically not about a man who owns a dog; it is about a man who is owned by his dog. Big difference--but unfortunately all too common a relationship among people who don't understand dogs.
Posted by: Dave Trowbridge on September 2, 2003 08:54 AMIn the neighborhood where I live in Emeryville CA near North and West Oakland (some of the poorest areas in the Bay Area), the most common dogs you will see are pit bulls or other large, strong dogs. One rarely sees a lab. I have noticed a high proportion of labs when I visit friends in Marin like Orinda. Labs appear to be the dog of choice of white, affluent people. They are reputed to have gentle natures. If you are a working class person living in the ghetto, you apparently don't want a gentle dog, you want one that will protect you and intimidate anyone who might "mess with you".
Posted by: Nick on September 2, 2003 10:45 AM