Again smurfy45, your dog maggie is extremely gorgeous, don't let anyone lead you to beleive that maggie is overweight. I hope that your labradors are having loads of fun as they did in this video and that you enjoy every moment with them.
Our labrador is quite the healthy boy mate.. Did you ever stop to think that the video taken of Bronson and Sandy was taken well after they started running around the field before you critisised. Bronson was already tired. They had already been running after the ball for an hour in a 5 acre paddock.
Ok my ears are closed to critisisms about our dogs weight, but if you beleive that every dog under the same breed should be the exact same weight with all breed variations, then your the deaf one.
Actually Bronson has always been a chunky labrador, even from 8 weeks old. He has always been clumsy even from 8 weeks old. He has always been excersised. We didn't let him get into that condition. That's the way he has always been. At 5 months he was already weighing in at the 30kilo mark and that was without scraps and extra food. He was still growing at 1 1/2 years. Stopping him at 35kilo around 8 months would have stunted his growth, it would have meant not feeding him at all.
ohh i have a choco lab and a tiny dog she yyys to hide in grass thats like an inch long then she growels rus and woofs they run around the gardan and go crazs
12 weeks lasa apso nima girl and choco lab mocha 3 girl! yay hahah
lol thats to cute ihave a choclate lab thats 8 years old and his best friend is my neighbors 8 lbs poodle and my lab plays with her just like that , and hes a big boy 118lbs lol
She does not need to go on a diet!; This is a well bred 'chunky good boned lab', with a beautiful square head and excellent confirmation; anyone who knows about labs would understand.
I understand your interest in pointing out your opinion,but in the UK,especially where I live a lab with good bone structure & with good conformation is very highly thought of & in great demand- we refer to them as 'chunky' labs-its not claimed to be part of their breed its a term...
...Any top labrador breeders refer to their pups as 'well bred chunky labs'.The slim line lab strains are not so popular here.Maybe where you live the slimmer labs are more popular and any weight or bone on a lab is a bad thing.
@smurfy45 Breeders rarely know what's best with regards to a dogs health, more what's profitable. The guy is quite right, lovely video and cute dogs but she is overweight, the UK Labrador Rescue Trust and any Vet will tell you the on a lab you should be able to see a clear waistline to their hindquarters and you should be able to feel their ribs but not see them, if you can't then they're overweight.
The misconception only serves to aggravate the joint problems inherent in labs already.
@smurfy45 if you look into it further youll also find that Showlabs have an average weight up to 18lbs more than that of a working dog as the breeders favour the appearance more than the health of the animal.
Calling them "chunky labs" dosn't make them being overweight Ok just because thats the desired appearance
I do hope this causes you to research outside of the breeding pen and rethink the care of your dog as it's quite clear it needs more exercise and less food
@smurfy45 i agree! there are two different types of labradors. There is the american style which is the taller leaner build labrador, then there is the english stye labrador, which is shorter and stalker. The english have more of a rounder bigger head alsom while american had a more narrower head. With that being said the lab in this video is the english build labrador :)
@smurfy45 I very much agree with you, labradors come in all shapes and sizes. Our Bronson a 2 1/2 year old labrador is a little overweight and is gradually loosing that weight, but while loosing weight we are still getting comments that he is too big, he has to loose weight etc, etc. Many people fail to realise that like many others, Bronson is an English show breed Labrador, he is genetecially chunky. Like show budgies, show labs are bred for good size and chunkiness.
@smurfy45 The vetinary standard for weight of 35kilo of an adult male labrador appears to be the us standard for a tall lanky labrador and not the shorter chunky english breed of labrador. If anyone is not sure on this google labrador. It is not unheard of to see an english breed of labrador get up around the 60kilo mark and not be overweight. Bronson's father was the english show line and was 63kilo at 2 years old but was not overweight. Hope this sheds some light on the labrador weight debate.
@Wifflewaff "appears to be..." it appears that you havn't actually had a conversation with your vet about this, I had a Show Lab who was a rescue dog and was overweight when we got him, not down to bloodlines (it never is, all labs put on weight very easily and this is a poor excuse) at 50 kilos, 35 kilos IS the guideline standard for a UK labrador of any descent 63kilos is absolutly obscene for a dog less than 4ft tall.
@smeghead666 Actually, I have had conversations with many vets about our Bronson's weight.Seems funny that the ones that swear by selling us all the expensive nuked brands of dog biscuits off thier shelf, seem to be the ones that give us a lecture about Bronson's weight. The ones that don't get the kick back for selling the special formulated diet biscuits, don't seem to be worried about the standart and strict 35kg weight. They are willing to work with the Labrador and their owner
@Wifflewaff cannot take you seriously if you're scoffing at your vets advice about Bronsons weight, you must be absolutely insane or blind to not see how unhealthy that poor animal is, he can't move! you have another perfectly healthy lab why can't you see that?
He obviously didn't start out like that as a pup and the fact you've neglected to increase exercise and/or decrease food to keep him at a healthy weight, you've just let it get to that atrocious condition, is appalling
@smeghead666 Funny thing is our labradors Sandy and Bronson get the exact same portion of food every day, half tin of wet food and 1 1/2 scoops of light biscuits. Sandy is the standard 35kilo and is a normal stocky full breed yellow Show/field labrador. Bronson on the other hand is 60kilo. He is a full black English show/field lab. His father was 63kilo and was NOT OVERWEIGHT just a typical chunky and very active labrador. On a lab the size of Bronson, I wouldn't call his weight obscene.
@smeghead666 Our usual vet knows bronson's father very well, he says it is not unusual to see labradors that are in excess of 60kilo. Doesn't mean that they are overweight. They can be chunky and muscular. and not chunky and overweight. When looking at an english show breed that has a huge chest, at 35kilo they would have an hourglass stomach very much like a greyhound, which would be highly out of proportion. Google photo's of english showbreed labradors, look closely and then make a judgement.
@Wifflewaff I have no need to google badly treated animals which are comparable to mothers parading their daughters at beauty pageants, the dogs are hardly cared for with their best interests at heart, only what's going to win for the owner.
As I said before I owned a pedigree show Labrador whos weight would not get any higher than 37-38 kilos he'd get walked for 3 miles a day twice a day and go on a big 6 miles+ once a week.
I give up, you're an absolute fool if you believe that it's healthy to have a dog than can't run more than 50yds and you're just going to poopoo any sane advice given to you until you hear what you want to hear despite every single guideline going against your beliefs.
Considering the breed is Labrador RETREIVER, not Labrador Showdog and that poor lil bugger couldn't retrieve something further than arms length is testament to your ignorance.
@smurfy45 yep, we sure do. We have had three labradors all together now, our recent two are chunky good boned and well proportioned labradors. Maggie is well in proportion. And anyway why can't people like us lab owners just enjoy our labradors as they are and put on our video's of our furry kids without being critisised every step of the way. We are not at a strict dog show here people.
@bangbangmcgee bein concerned for an overweight dog isn't making fun, it's a grown lab, not a puppy. she needs a lot more exercise than what she's getting
I am not here this morning to have a full on debate again, but just wondering how you can make a judgement on seeing one video of maggie and assume that she is not walked every day. You don't know what maggie's exercise regime is. She may well be walked everyday. You can't tell this from looking at a 5 minute video. For a person who goes to uni, do you walk your dog everyday or does someone else walk them for you? and who is home for your dog half the time when your not home?
Actually mum just reminded me this morning that the video of bronson running in the paddock was taken two years ago, he is although still at 58kilo with a huge chest, he has toned down around the stomach and is looking quite good. Stay tuned a new and improved toned down bronnie chops will be on the wifflewaff screen soon.
@smeghead666 i didnt mean it was literaly a puppy by the way. im just sayin that you dont need to blurt out "hey your dog needs to go on a diet". the dog looks fine and happy. but i do agree if the dog was bigger then something should be done.but it looks fine the way it is now. thats all.
I dont really think so, personalities are alot to do with the genes from the parents with a small factor coming from colour. Its true that certain colours have certain characteristics but I find that the main difference comes between the 'show/family bred lab' to the 'gundog/working bred labs, with differences in excitability and endurance, opposed to the relaxed family lab.
i love Maggie :) reminds me of my girl
FAS882007 1 month ago
jbage007, relax, the choco babe is just perfect.
mrsjanefro 2 months ago
Sorry the last two comments were a reply back to a person I had a conversation with last night. the name was meant to show up at the top, but hasn't.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
Again smurfy45, your dog maggie is extremely gorgeous, don't let anyone lead you to beleive that maggie is overweight. I hope that your labradors are having loads of fun as they did in this video and that you enjoy every moment with them.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
good day to you too.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
Our labrador is quite the healthy boy mate.. Did you ever stop to think that the video taken of Bronson and Sandy was taken well after they started running around the field before you critisised. Bronson was already tired. They had already been running after the ball for an hour in a 5 acre paddock.
Ok my ears are closed to critisisms about our dogs weight, but if you beleive that every dog under the same breed should be the exact same weight with all breed variations, then your the deaf one.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
Well then your one of the lucky one's who's lab isn't predisposed to the weight gain syndrome, you must be one out of a million.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
Did you google English show breed labradors and look at the pictures?????, if not go and take a squizz, even go onto some of the breeders pages.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
Actually Bronson has always been a chunky labrador, even from 8 weeks old. He has always been clumsy even from 8 weeks old. He has always been excersised. We didn't let him get into that condition. That's the way he has always been. At 5 months he was already weighing in at the 30kilo mark and that was without scraps and extra food. He was still growing at 1 1/2 years. Stopping him at 35kilo around 8 months would have stunted his growth, it would have meant not feeding him at all.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
@RobertsNetworkCom Not if you exercise and feed him/her right, they shouldn't look like a barrel with legs...
smeghead666 9 months ago
both your labs are beautiful. and maggie is not fat she a typical english style labrador. thank you for sharing.
kimmy123763 10 months ago
Watch my chocolate lab ringing a bell to go out side! Its on my profile :)
MrMasonstimson 10 months ago
Its Yellow Lab. Not Golden
Skrillinator 10 months ago
hahaha fat dog too lazy to get up
stonesourer1988 1 year ago
That is sooo adorable your little lab is so cute!!! And so it the choclate one you should make more videos of them : )
kikilovesyou96 1 year ago
beautiful labs you have there you are so lucky. i miss mine so much but we had a good 14 years together.
kimmy123763 1 year ago
Fearless Puppy lol
snowboard246 1 year ago
I love it. Get our three labs going, and it's the same thing. They love to have a good time.
dieselinveins 1 year ago
Reminds me so much of our two labradors Sandy and Bronson. There is never a doll moment in our household. Maggie and Ali are so gorgeous.
Wifflewaff 1 year ago
Ahahhahh so cute!
jihadacadien 1 year ago
My labrador runs more or less the same way when he goes nuts
Archimedes555453525 1 year ago
ohh i have a choco lab and a tiny dog she yyys to hide in grass thats like an inch long then she growels rus and woofs they run around the gardan and go crazs
12 weeks lasa apso nima girl and choco lab mocha 3 girl! yay hahah
1happydrop 2 years ago
aw ahhahahaa they are so funny and cute!
ILeanIRock 2 years ago
cute!! haha Maggie is also acting like a baby.
topcatin 2 years ago 2
I have a chocolate lab named maggie also its hilarious
grudge3214 3 years ago
haha my chocolate lab allie does the spinning thing 2
pinklashez 3 years ago
i love this video.. thanks for posting it.. i hav a 3 yr old golden lab.. he is still a little kid at heart..
nitinmehta08 3 years ago
lol i have a 4 year old chocolate lab called millie! she;s amazine!
Boylabel 3 years ago
aww its so funny
narehs1 3 years ago
I have a 3 year old chocolate lab that does the exact same thing when she get's excited and wants to play. Great video and a nice yard too.
moistmaster 3 years ago
So cute! Beautiful Labs!
Queenofcars911 3 years ago 5
Sweet : D
Labs are great, The white puppie really likes the choco lab. And Visa versa. You have 2 wonderful dogs. I envy you so much!
nhlpens 3 years ago
lol thats to cute ihave a choclate lab thats 8 years old and his best friend is my neighbors 8 lbs poodle and my lab plays with her just like that , and hes a big boy 118lbs lol
labs are just kids at heart
FatimasLab 3 years ago
How cute! That puppy is a lil' tough guy!!
katiemc66 4 years ago 2
agreed smurfy, big boned labs are really that massive.
siberiantiger0 4 years ago
the choco lab needs to go on a diet
what are you feeding that dog?
jbage007 4 years ago
She does not need to go on a diet!; This is a well bred 'chunky good boned lab', with a beautiful square head and excellent confirmation; anyone who knows about labs would understand.
smurfy45 4 years ago 7
sorry, but "chunky" is NOT part of the breed conformation (it's not confirmation but conformation)
and yes, I AM someone who knows about labs--which is precisely why I pointed it out
jbage007 4 years ago
I understand your interest in pointing out your opinion,but in the UK,especially where I live a lab with good bone structure & with good conformation is very highly thought of & in great demand- we refer to them as 'chunky' labs-its not claimed to be part of their breed its a term...
smurfy45 4 years ago
...Any top labrador breeders refer to their pups as 'well bred chunky labs'.The slim line lab strains are not so popular here.Maybe where you live the slimmer labs are more popular and any weight or bone on a lab is a bad thing.
smurfy45 4 years ago
that could be the diff
main thing is that the choco is obviously a sweetheart of a dog--certainly a typical lab in that regard :)
yes, I do have a pref for the "field" lab
thanks for your replies and for posting the movie--it was adorable
jbage007 4 years ago
@smurfy45 Breeders rarely know what's best with regards to a dogs health, more what's profitable. The guy is quite right, lovely video and cute dogs but she is overweight, the UK Labrador Rescue Trust and any Vet will tell you the on a lab you should be able to see a clear waistline to their hindquarters and you should be able to feel their ribs but not see them, if you can't then they're overweight.
The misconception only serves to aggravate the joint problems inherent in labs already.
smeghead666 9 months ago
@smurfy45 if you look into it further youll also find that Showlabs have an average weight up to 18lbs more than that of a working dog as the breeders favour the appearance more than the health of the animal.
Calling them "chunky labs" dosn't make them being overweight Ok just because thats the desired appearance
I do hope this causes you to research outside of the breeding pen and rethink the care of your dog as it's quite clear it needs more exercise and less food
smeghead666 9 months ago
@smurfy45 i agree! there are two different types of labradors. There is the american style which is the taller leaner build labrador, then there is the english stye labrador, which is shorter and stalker. The english have more of a rounder bigger head alsom while american had a more narrower head. With that being said the lab in this video is the english build labrador :)
VictoriajjMarshall 2 weeks ago
@smurfy45 I very much agree with you, labradors come in all shapes and sizes. Our Bronson a 2 1/2 year old labrador is a little overweight and is gradually loosing that weight, but while loosing weight we are still getting comments that he is too big, he has to loose weight etc, etc. Many people fail to realise that like many others, Bronson is an English show breed Labrador, he is genetecially chunky. Like show budgies, show labs are bred for good size and chunkiness.
Wifflewaff 1 year ago
@smurfy45 The vetinary standard for weight of 35kilo of an adult male labrador appears to be the us standard for a tall lanky labrador and not the shorter chunky english breed of labrador. If anyone is not sure on this google labrador. It is not unheard of to see an english breed of labrador get up around the 60kilo mark and not be overweight. Bronson's father was the english show line and was 63kilo at 2 years old but was not overweight. Hope this sheds some light on the labrador weight debate.
Wifflewaff 1 year ago
@Wifflewaff "appears to be..." it appears that you havn't actually had a conversation with your vet about this, I had a Show Lab who was a rescue dog and was overweight when we got him, not down to bloodlines (it never is, all labs put on weight very easily and this is a poor excuse) at 50 kilos, 35 kilos IS the guideline standard for a UK labrador of any descent 63kilos is absolutly obscene for a dog less than 4ft tall.
smeghead666 9 months ago
@smeghead666 Actually, I have had conversations with many vets about our Bronson's weight.Seems funny that the ones that swear by selling us all the expensive nuked brands of dog biscuits off thier shelf, seem to be the ones that give us a lecture about Bronson's weight. The ones that don't get the kick back for selling the special formulated diet biscuits, don't seem to be worried about the standart and strict 35kg weight. They are willing to work with the Labrador and their owner
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
@Wifflewaff cannot take you seriously if you're scoffing at your vets advice about Bronsons weight, you must be absolutely insane or blind to not see how unhealthy that poor animal is, he can't move! you have another perfectly healthy lab why can't you see that?
He obviously didn't start out like that as a pup and the fact you've neglected to increase exercise and/or decrease food to keep him at a healthy weight, you've just let it get to that atrocious condition, is appalling
smeghead666 9 months ago
@smeghead666 Funny thing is our labradors Sandy and Bronson get the exact same portion of food every day, half tin of wet food and 1 1/2 scoops of light biscuits. Sandy is the standard 35kilo and is a normal stocky full breed yellow Show/field labrador. Bronson on the other hand is 60kilo. He is a full black English show/field lab. His father was 63kilo and was NOT OVERWEIGHT just a typical chunky and very active labrador. On a lab the size of Bronson, I wouldn't call his weight obscene.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
@smeghead666 Our usual vet knows bronson's father very well, he says it is not unusual to see labradors that are in excess of 60kilo. Doesn't mean that they are overweight. They can be chunky and muscular. and not chunky and overweight. When looking at an english show breed that has a huge chest, at 35kilo they would have an hourglass stomach very much like a greyhound, which would be highly out of proportion. Google photo's of english showbreed labradors, look closely and then make a judgement.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
@Wifflewaff I have no need to google badly treated animals which are comparable to mothers parading their daughters at beauty pageants, the dogs are hardly cared for with their best interests at heart, only what's going to win for the owner.
As I said before I owned a pedigree show Labrador whos weight would not get any higher than 37-38 kilos he'd get walked for 3 miles a day twice a day and go on a big 6 miles+ once a week.
smeghead666 9 months ago
@Wifflewaff
I give up, you're an absolute fool if you believe that it's healthy to have a dog than can't run more than 50yds and you're just going to poopoo any sane advice given to you until you hear what you want to hear despite every single guideline going against your beliefs.
Considering the breed is Labrador RETREIVER, not Labrador Showdog and that poor lil bugger couldn't retrieve something further than arms length is testament to your ignorance.
Good day
smeghead666 9 months ago
Yes thats right.
matisseee 4 years ago
@smurfy45 People don't know anything about labs, it's like saying that a greyhound is too thin
Ronsterbunny 11 months ago
@smurfy45 yep, we sure do. We have had three labradors all together now, our recent two are chunky good boned and well proportioned labradors. Maggie is well in proportion. And anyway why can't people like us lab owners just enjoy our labradors as they are and put on our video's of our furry kids without being critisised every step of the way. We are not at a strict dog show here people.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
@jbage007 stop being a bully.
bangbangmcgee 1 year ago
@bangbangmcgee how is that being a Bully? the man is quite right, that's an overweight lab
smeghead666 9 months ago
@smeghead666 not really. he's a little chubby but you need to make fun of him. its just a pup.=)
bangbangmcgee 9 months ago
@bangbangmcgee bein concerned for an overweight dog isn't making fun, it's a grown lab, not a puppy. she needs a lot more exercise than what she's getting
smeghead666 9 months ago
I am not here this morning to have a full on debate again, but just wondering how you can make a judgement on seeing one video of maggie and assume that she is not walked every day. You don't know what maggie's exercise regime is. She may well be walked everyday. You can't tell this from looking at a 5 minute video. For a person who goes to uni, do you walk your dog everyday or does someone else walk them for you? and who is home for your dog half the time when your not home?
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
Actually mum just reminded me this morning that the video of bronson running in the paddock was taken two years ago, he is although still at 58kilo with a huge chest, he has toned down around the stomach and is looking quite good. Stay tuned a new and improved toned down bronnie chops will be on the wifflewaff screen soon.
Wifflewaff 9 months ago
@smeghead666 i didnt mean it was literaly a puppy by the way. im just sayin that you dont need to blurt out "hey your dog needs to go on a diet". the dog looks fine and happy. but i do agree if the dog was bigger then something should be done.but it looks fine the way it is now. thats all.
bangbangmcgee 9 months ago
@jbage007 their feeding it not enough exercises, look at how much pent up energy it has
cptmuska 1 year ago
@jbage007
you need professional help as well for some other reasons
hasdrubald01 10 months ago
is it true the color of the labs matches their personalities compared to the colors of humans?
i.e. the white labs= conservative , yellow= very smart usually doctors, black= mischievous, potentially a biter, and the chocolates= mid of the pack?
nigga62089 4 years ago
I dont really think so, personalities are alot to do with the genes from the parents with a small factor coming from colour. Its true that certain colours have certain characteristics but I find that the main difference comes between the 'show/family bred lab' to the 'gundog/working bred labs, with differences in excitability and endurance, opposed to the relaxed family lab.
smurfy45 4 years ago
@nigga62089 with a username of yours i can expect you to say something stupid like this. Its sad
urcool425 3 months ago
That's the great thing about chocolate labs! They never grow out of the "puppy" stage!
daveefarr 4 years ago
That is sooo cute!!!
urstruly83 4 years ago
the chocolat lab just look like mine!
amelugo 4 years ago
Cute... We have a 5 year old Chocolate and a 3 month old pup. They play like this all day.
Labattb 4 years ago