Anderson, owner with his wife, Jan,
of BritishLabradors.com
 (the Web site and the kennel)
will again feature the type of quiet,
civil Labradors he has been importing
from Great Britain and breeding for
nearly two decades.

The Andersons regularly travel to England,
Scotland and Ireland in search of
Labradors that meet their,
and their customers', standards.

In addition to importing started and
fully trained Labradors for customers
looking for retrievers that are field-ready,
the Andersons regularly add to
their stable of black and
yellow breeding Labradors.

"I can still remember the year
(1978) and the circumstances when I
decided I wanted to find a different
kind of Labrador, one that wasn't as
hard-charging and hyperactive as
many American Labs are today,''
Anderson said. "I was hunting on Delta Marsh,
in Manitoba, and the yellow Lab I owned
at the time, out of American field-trial breeding,
was a do-or-die retriever.
But he was simply too hard to control.''
An outdoor columnist with the
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Anderson had heard about British Labradors
and their naturally civil temperaments.
So one year he traveled to England
to see for himself.

"In my experience, nothing is simple,
in retrieving dogs or anything else,''
he said. "But over some years of traveling
to England and of watching their
best handlers and breeders work with
British Labradors, I came to understand
two things: why their dogs are
naturally calmer than American Labs,
and how the British train their dogs in
order to enhance those natural traits.''

Anderson is recognized as one of the most
knowledgeable people outside of
Great Britain about the methods used by
British retriever trainers.

"It's important to recognize that not
all British Labradors are the same,''

Anderson said. "As we do in America,
some lines in England have health
problems. And some just aren't as
good as others in their game-finding abilities.''

The Andersons also import fully
trained Springer spaniels from Great Britain,
and count among customers of theirs
who have purchased trained Springer's
President George Bush (the elder).

Additionally, Vice President Dick Cheney
and his wife Lynn own a black Labrador the
Andersons bred and subsequently trained.

At Game Fair,
Anderson will demonstrate, using his British Labs,
retriever training methods all dog owners can
use to make their best friends more
useful (and more civil) at home and in the field alike.

For more information, go to www.BritishLabradors.com.

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