Sunday, February 16, 2014

Yellow Labrador Puppies For Sale

By Krystal Branch


Yellow Labrador puppies for sale need energetic and fun loving families. They're gentle with children. They love playing and sleeping with other dogs. They're sociable, intelligent, and eager to please. They need exercise and companionship. Bored and lonely Labs will become destructive and boisterous.

They're loyal, affectionate, patient, energetic, intelligent, and eager to please. This exuberant dog remains puppy-like in behavior for a good 3 years. They're remain exuberant and young at heart all the days of their life.

Yellow Labradors have brown eyes and black noses. Sometimes the nose turns pinkish with age, a pigmentation change, nothing to worry about. Males weight 65-80 lbs, females 55-70 lbs. For a large dog, they have a long lifespan of 10-12 years. The almost waterproof coat is smooth, short, and dense. Labs shed seasonally.

If you don't start training right away, your large and strong adult Lab will drag you down the street on walks, jump on you and your guests, knock you over running past you on the stairs. Take advantage of their intelligent eager to train nature with early obedience training.

Labs are a healthy breed with few genetic diseases to worry about. Like all large breeds, they sometimes develop hip or elbow dysplasia in their senior years. A few hereditary eye diseases plague this breed. Parent dogs should be tested for eye problems before breeding.

The St John's Water dog worked alongside the fishermen in Newfoundland, Canada. This amazing dog would jump into the freezing waters to pull in nets. Brought to England around 1800, it was crossbred with Spaniels, Setters, and Retrievers to develop hunting and retrieving skills.

The Labs intelligence, desire to please, sense of smell, natural desire to carry objects in their mouth, makes this breed a favored choice for a variety of jobs. Labs work as service dogs, therapy dogs, search and rescue, police detection, tracking, carting, and hunting. They're successful competitors in agility, field trial competitions, and obedience competitions.

Labs need a minimum of 1/2 hour of exercise twice a day. They love frisbee, agility, flyball, fetch, and swimming. Of course they also love hiking. They get excited, and with their curious and friendly nature, can easily get lost if off leash.

A bored Lab can be quite destructive, racing through the home knocking things over, chewing on the furniture, and raiding the trash. Like children with candy, they'll eat until they're sick. Take care to provide an environment that will keep your dog safe from his/her overactive eating desires, and keep the environment safe from your pet by satisfying your pets need for activity.

Health is determined by genetics, exercise, nutrition, and general wellbeing. Ask breeders about the parent dogs, their registration and health history. Ask about a return policy and health guarantee. Ask what socialization has been done with the puppies. Most breeders de-worm, vaccinate, and have puppies health checked before the puppies are released to their new family.

Providing physical and psychological care for this active, sociable dog is a 10-12 year commitment. If you work long hours away from home this isn't the breed for you. Yellow Labrador puppies for sale are great with kids and other dogs as long as they get plenty of exercise. They need to be members of the family. They don't enjoy alone time.




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