poor judgement in breeding
I was reading a local newspaper and honestly saw someone advertising pointing lab puppies for sale that were bred from a lab and a GSP. They claimed they were well on their way to making a new breed of pointing labs. Whether or not you are a fan of the actual pointing labs or not, this is a very poor and misguided decision to breed these dogs together and try to pawn them off as pointing labs. The true pointing labs are breed through actual labs who have a strong genetic instinct to point thus trying to keep those traits in the bloodlines. I would discourage anyone from buying or falling for such a hoax as far as wanting a pointing lab. I think people like this are real damaging to those who try to keep the breed pure and REAL. This was not meant to be a discussion about pointing labs vs. GSP' s, setters, etc. It is about people trying to take short cuts to try and make a quick $$$. Any thoughts?