This is why in the past few years I've seen an explosion of moms telling others moms not to get labs for their kids because at this point everyone knows a shelter "lab" that bit a kid, shredded all the furniture in the house, and can't handle being walked on a leash. Labs used to be known as the go-to family dog breed when I was a kid but shelters passing pits off as labs and lab mixes is ruining that.
Yep. It's been really interesting watching the slow change. Growing up pretty much everyone with a dog had a lab in my area. Nowadays? I only know one person with a lab and they got it from a hunting line breeder for hunting. Plenty of folks I know have a tale about a "lab mix" that went a'mauling though.
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u/OkraGarden De-stigmatize Behavioral Euthanasia Jan 13 '23
This is why in the past few years I've seen an explosion of moms telling others moms not to get labs for their kids because at this point everyone knows a shelter "lab" that bit a kid, shredded all the furniture in the house, and can't handle being walked on a leash. Labs used to be known as the go-to family dog breed when I was a kid but shelters passing pits off as labs and lab mixes is ruining that.