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all animals descended from hunters ie wolves, cougars etc, will do that. Its called the "predatory pause". Pointing breeds just concentrated on breeding dogs that had a strong predatory pause to one another and through time the dogs would consistenly do it. The retrievers were at one time bred the same way but for their retrieving/carrying desires. Unfortunatly (in my opininion) so many have concentrated on trying to get labs and others to point that they don't breed as much for the retrieving instinct. End result is that we have retrievers that won't naturally retrieve and have to be force broke to retrieve. I have a lab by the way and a german shorthair so am not biased against the breed. Personally, I just wish that the true talent of labs (retrieving) was emphasized more and less about the pointing. all just my opinion