Yes, both parents must be black carrying yellow, despite showing a black coat colour
Scroll down past the fluffy bits to skipping generations https://www.thelabradorsite.com/labrador-colors/
Clodagh bought secondhand cot matresses on marketplace and used them for her lurcher. People are often happy to give them away as you use a new one even if you reuse the cot. Just pop a cover on them and replace as necessary.
Another recommendation for Lez Graham, Ben Randalls gundog app is supposed to be good, Laura Hill, Advanced retriever training is excellent as a next step.
Most importantly find a good trainer who you click with and like their methods, train 121 and in a class.
I'm so sorry, allow yourself to grieve and smile at the same time. It's ok! I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my cheeks thinking about your pain. Mine is just starting to subside ( R.I.P. Lily)
'Dropped' just means outside the body rather than a massive pair of hairy baubles swinging about!.
So if you can feel them then they're def outside the body as otherwise you wouldn't feel anything. They will remain small, neat and tucked up high, but outside the body, until adolescence when...
I had a dog PTS on Fri, she looked at me and I knew that it was time. I absolutely didn't want her to get to the point of collapse. It was a lovely sunny day so I took her out for a lovely potter around then made the call. Whilst I was with the lovely vet we discussed how as humans it's our...
Yesterday we said goodbye to Queen Lily. Our smallest dog with a huge personality. From a Battersea stray who was very poorly with no hair and a wrecked immune system from untreated Demodex mange, to a ruff, tuff, country girl. She had the best 15 years with us being nanny to all our dogs...