Labrador owners/experts - a question for you ?

[WildRosie]

I've just seen from a few yards away what I thought was a Labrador but I'm not sure. If it was, it had a more sleek body than I'd expect. Also, its coat colour was not quite yellow - there was a gingery tinge on its back and sides but lighter elsewhere. Nose appeared to be more pink than brown - I believe that's usual for Dudley Labradors. It did have the classic swinging and swishing Labrador tail though.

Whatever it was, it was a very handsome pooch. Labrador with unusual colouring and surprisingly slim or perhaps a crossbreed ?

Working Fox red lab?

Yes I’d have said a working fox lab.

My friend has a police dog lab, she’s very sleek, slim and quite petite.

Where as my lab, who was chocolate was a thirty five kilo beast.

Working types are much slimmer than the traditional type.

"yellow" runs from basically white to ginger.

This is my old working boy.

He was a bit faded then compared with his youth.

A working fox. Thankyou everyone. I knew it looked like a Labrador but it didn't have the stereotypical sturdy (fat) appearance of the dog breed that really likes to eat.

I think it would be a working fox red lab too.

The working line can look a lot different to the show line and not really like the labs we expect. I know a dog that looks like how you described, definitely a lab but looks a lot more muscly than your average lean lab, and obviously massively different than your usual Labrador which is slightly (to very) overweight.

DDog would have loved to have been fat, we were very resistant to cute eyes. DH is a vet, no way was our dog going to be fat!

Agree with PP, sounds like a working Fox Red. We have a working black lab and have to monitor her diet very closely otherwise she'd weigh a ton! As it is she's 27kg and slim. SIL has a show line who is about 35kg and much broader for comparison.