Pros & Cons of a Labrador Retriever | Dog Breeds
I’m Julia Szabo, also known as a Pet Reporter,
and I am the “”Living with Dogs”” columnist
for dogster.com.
I’ve actually written 6 books and I’m hard
at work on my next one.
It will be about about dogs — that’s as much
as I can say right now.
I love dogs and I think nobody’s life is complete
without one.
So I’m here to tell you about a variety of
different dogs breeds that might suit your
lifestyle.
I hope you’ll adopt one soon.
The Labrador Retriever; is probably one of
the most popular breeds in the world, certainly
in America.
It’s always in the top 3 of the most popular
breeds.
They’re incredibly great dogs, they can be
trained to do so many things.
The most recent interesting application for
Labradors in terms of helping humans, is,
that, they’re amazing at, detecting the, sugar
lows, that people with diabetes experience.
So, uh, their actually what’s called “”Dogs
for Diabetics””, that’s the group that trains
them and what they do, is that, they take
dogs, Labradors, who didn’t make it through
all the way, to the “”Guide Dogs for the Blind
Program””, and, for whatever reason they flunked,
maybe they liked to rearrange a person’s shoes,
and you can’t do that to a blind person.
So, that dog still has all that amazing training.
So, they’re recycled to actually help people
with Diabetes.
So, um, Labs are incredible, they’re very
playful, they’re very athletic, and they love
an athletic owner.
A friend of mine, um, she’s an editor and
a writer, and she runs every single day with
her lab.
She’s actually, like, a marathon runner and
the way she stays in shape is running with
her lab, and the lab stays in shape, it stays
happy, it doesn’t destroy the house.
Um, they’re amazing water dogs.
They love to be around the water.
So, if your lifestyle in anyway incorporates
swimming or boating or any of those things
they would love to be with you.
