toby my lab hunts all winter. we walk logging roads and hunt culverts. i carry pistol with blanks and shoot in air when toby flushes a grouse.
toby is missing a TOE do to tumor and still hunts at 8 yrs old.
labs are real tough dog in rough weather.
in winter they are hunting machine .they can go all day in winter.
in fall, no the heat is hard on them but in COLD,lab is ticket.