Are Brassica's a Labrador's equivalent to crack cocaine?
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Suffolk Tony
Aim low, achieve your goals, avoid disappointment.
Our friend and neighbour trains dogs for a hobby, & breeds quite a few. All our dogs have come from him, but in our hands they soon lose the desire to obey! His son's just qualified as a vet, which is rather handy (we inherited his young black lab., as he was going to be away from home a lot), & he was telling us that labs have a gene that makes them more or less insatiably hungry. A bit sad really.
Barrymagrec
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Amongst many other things ours had a quart of cooking oil......
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/09/10/chubby-labradors-genetically-hungry-say-scientists/
Interesting that flat-coats have the same genetic fault - they are an uncommon breed but all of the ones that I have met have been slim, maybe because virtually all have been show dogs, so will be carefully kept at the right weight.
Brian
Eating fat, staying slim
I’ve heard that too, Tony.
Luckily, we feed our dogs on a diet of raw (real) food so it’s not too difficult keeping them looking slim and in good health.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Probably genetics as show and trial lines have been largely separate for a long time. The major difference that I notice between trial and show is the lack of initiative (some would say brains) in trial dogs - bred to be blindly obedient to the nth degree. A friend bought two and found out the hard way how un-Lad-like they are when you are used to show stock.
Logic? Raw protein is more digestible than cooked (as opposed to carb's, which are more digestible when cooked).
Suffolk Tony
Aim low, achieve your goals, avoid disappointment.
Our girl's also a trained gun dog, but that hasn't stood in her way from gobbling down anything remotely edible (and stuff that really isn't) she happens to come across! It's interesting, though, that the trained dogs we've inherited from our friend (they're only used as gun dogs for three years or so, then they start to get more easily distracted from the task in hand) don't enjoy playing, other than fetching things, which of course they're superb at. Throw a ball into the cornfield without them seeing where it goes & they'll keep searching until they find it. Here's our lab. at three years' old -
Ponty
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Our girl's also a trained gun dog, but that hasn't stood in her way from gobbling down anything remotely edible (and stuff that really isn't) she happens to come across! It's interesting, though, that the trained dogs we've inherited from our friend (they're only used as gun dogs for three years or so, then they start to get more easily distracted from the task in hand) don't enjoy playing, other than fetching things, which of course they're superb at. Throw a ball into the cornfield without them seeing where it goes & they'll keep searching until they find it. Here's our lab. at three years' old -
Just the best aren’t they!
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Our girl's also a trained gun dog, but that hasn't stood in her way from gobbling down anything remotely edible (and stuff that really isn't) she happens to come across! It's interesting, though, that the trained dogs we've inherited from our friend (they're only used as gun dogs for three years or so, then they start to get more easily distracted from the task in hand) don't enjoy playing, other than fetching things, which of course they're superb at. Throw a ball into the cornfield without them seeing where it goes & they'll keep searching until they find it. Here's our lab. at three years' old -
Nice dog. What sort of breed is it? It looks Labrador retriever-y but a lot skinnier.
Brian
Eating fat, staying slim
Try this link as a start and do some googling if you really want to know more about the logic.
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Mike Reed
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Still hung up on brassica's in the thread title. Brassica's what? As a genus, I don't think there's a plural (mass noun, maybe?). Didn't know that swede is within that genus either. Have to say that doggie pic's beat brassica pic's any day; esp. labradors and retrievers but I'll stick to moggies as they don't desecrate cabbage and the like. Cabbage whites and pigeons are on my hit list as slugs and snails need a nocturnal killing spree.
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Ian Hughes
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Absolutely. I've got espalier apple trees in the garden, and our boy would eat the fruit off the trees. He also broke into the fruit cage and stripped two cordon cherries together with a bed full of asparagus. He was also partial to curry, and would follow me round the kitchen on my return from the take away.
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Marchbanks
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Ah, come on - now you are just trying to wind up Mike. And everyone know’s that’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
Mushrooms/cocaine are all labs junkies.