Cheasapeake bay retriever

[Naj]

You're all bonkers.

Seriously, presumably there's another market of reasonably priced 'ordinary' shooting dogs?

Naj

[Alice]

i have a Penrose chesapeake , 2yr old male . Just over 40kg, very strong ,very atheletic,loves water ,would jump of the roof into a tea cup, very steady.

excellent temperment ,
slow burners ,still puppyish ,probably be 3 when he has grown up enough.
he doesn't have the drive of my springer , or my friends labs. Until it suits him then he's flat out .i:e send him on some long retrieves and you are praying he is going to stop on the way back and not wipe you out . do it a few times and you get the look and he slows to trot "if you launch that again you're getting it".

Headstrong v stubborn, pain in the A** at times , they really do have a personality .He's boisterous not aggressive with other dogs.
extremely loyal, he's a one man dog .
very hardy , He's been covered in ice sat in a splash this winter and didn't bat an eyelid.
i thought long and hard before i bought him ,and spoke to loads of owners who actually have one and are not just trading anecdotes .For what i paid i could have probaly had my pick of the v best lab pups .

what attracted me was around 30,000 labs are registered each year and only 170 chessies .

its horses for courses
i wanted a dog for wildfowling , if i wanted a dog to win competitions i would have bought one of those fashionable skinny fast labs .

are they for everyone no

Any regrets no
will i buy another definitely

Really interesting read. I do look at the Penrose site from time to time and think 'if I was going to have one...' but I wouldn't have the need. It's always interesting to hear about the pros and cons of the minor breeds though.

[crackerd]

You're all bonkers.

Seriously, presumably there's another market of reasonably priced 'ordinary' shooting dogs? :think

Sure, that's the buyer's market, and well-bred Labs and Chessies are right in the thick of it. Decent pedigree via FTs and to a lesser extent hunt tests on both sides of it >$1,000<. Which would include all the testing, especially for Labs as now thought necessary - and guarantees for soundness that responsible breeders stand by - up to 36 months.

MG

[trekmoor]

$15000 - $20000 for a lab pup ? Yez are aw aff yer heids ! I got my best lab ever for £30 , my next best one a few years later for £60 . Both of those dogs qualified for the ret.champs .
I know prices go up as years go by but I think the folk that pay about £1000 for lab pups over here are mugs.

Wullie

[crackerd]

$15000 - $20000 for a lab pup ? Yez are aw aff yer heids !

Could be, but also could be that them who play the game at such level of pedigree are wealthy enough to put that down as a drop in a bucket. You know how the gee-gees are pert-near universally referred to as "the sport of kings?" - retriever field trials in the US has long been "the shooting sport of kings" and likewise a rich man's (or woman's) game.

MG