Seriously??? You call yourself "Labbylover".. I think you are far from that. Try and put yourself in that poor dog's situation, an unstable lifestyle to being back with you and thrown into a kennel life. Sprayed in the face with water and some sort of training collar to try and correct something that isn't her fault. Please find this bitch a new home with a wonderful family that will love her and allow her to be part of their lives. Very sad and shame on you for only thinking about yourself.

Why was the dog sold as a pet and not spayed by two years of age?

Breeders grill into puppy buyers heads that the Labrador Retriever is a "family" dog. They are not the breed you leave in the back yard. Yaddah yaddahhhh yaddahhh I have heard the speech given meany times. But when a dog had lived in a home for two years - probably slept in the humans bed - you toss it out into the kennel and then bitch about the barking?? Are you kidding? Then bitch because it is too happy in the ring? She does not have an anxiety disorder. What the H$#@@!!! She is a wiggly Lab. I would take a happy wiggly Lab in the ring over a boring robotic, emotional-less, dead beat.
When I placed my last young adult - before she was two - the new home had her spayed ASAP. When I saw her months later I had small regrets. She bloomed into a stunning dog. But that was short lived because I knew the home she was in was perfect in every way. THAT. IS. ALL. THAT. MATTERED.
That dog needs a pet home. You should be ashamed. This is why I choose VERY carefully where I get my dogs.

Without any of us being around this dog, who knows why she is acting that way. Perhaps she was that way in her previous home and rather than telling the breeder we just can't deal with her, they gave her other reasons to give her back. It happens.

Everyone is making assumptions and well, I think we all know what assuming anything can do. Some dogs handle change and transitions better than others. I suggest speaking with your veterinarian about what you're dealing with & possibly putting your gal on Prozac or some type of medication that helps stressed out dogs. It is not a permanent solution but might help her transition into your home/kennel situation.

You all are denigrating this breeder who houses his/her dogs in a kennel. Housing dogs exclusively in a kennel environment may not be what you or I would do. . . but to be sure, in the pedigrees of your dogs, I bet most of the dogs were housed this way. Sometimes the only contact they have with their owners is in the show ring. . . and they show like gang-busters. . . wonder why? These are the dogs that are traded like baseball cards. These are the dogs who you use to sire your puppies because the owners are so prestigious.

So get real. The breeder of this particular bitch saw something special in her and wants to do what you ALL want to do ( and sometimes at any expense to the dog), win in the ring. The breeder's mistake was to put a question on a public forum. The breeder should have picked up the phone and called one of the anointed ones for advice.

Sorry, this "breeder" made many more important mistakes than coming here seeking advice. Her story makes me sick. That poor dog. I really hope she feels the grief and sorrow of this poor dog someday. Maybe her children will dump her in a nursing home someday...

What if the general public understood this? Letting this out for public consumption can really hurt those of us who are commercial breeders. Thank God only breeders go to this forum.

Hell, I've got a big Mansion with the kennels out back and I've won at Potomac. Who's judging me? As long as I can buy top billing on Google I'll out sell any of the small time breeders who let their Labradors in their living space.

OP. Drug this dog, do what ever it takes. Winning is everything sweetheart.

Correct Labrador Temperament is a hallmark of the breed. What if this beautiful girl has some form of personality disorder that would produce pups just like her?

Spay and place in a loving home who has the time and money to get the young lady better.

I am really shocked at some of these answers.

OP, I'm sorry about some of the responses. If you are willing to work with her, she may come around. Long ago we had a dog which we gave Benadryl to in order to calm her prior to non AKC obedience showing which my children showed her in. The Benadryl really settled her. We bred her once, none of her pups had her jittery issues, in fact I still here from families and they are delighted with pups and that was many years ago. After that breeding, I did not want to breed her again and my children did not want to compete with her, so she went back to her breeder who wanted her to run hunt tests. She was too jittery for the hunt test environment and he place her with an elderly couple where she was spoiled. You could try Benadryl or Melatonin for a time or two, they may help her get use to the show environment as they'll make her feel relaxed and she'll learn to associate that feeling with showing. You know her lines and what the baseline temperament is of those lines. if you have the time to work with her through the adjustment, go for it. All the best.

Well, thanks for all of you that reiterated what I feel was best for this dog. No thanks for all the ones who just like to scorch everyone and expect the worst in them.

I was able to reach the prior owner, and they now live in a house where she can be with them…great timing. She is being reunited with her family tomorrow! YAY! So happy!

Your answer makes no sense at all…learn to write…or express yourself better. You are talking out both sides of your mouth.

Yes, the person you replied to had some really good points. I love when people say it the "way it is" so refreshing.
So many would have done exactly what this breeder did, and think nothing of it. But then come here on a forum and be so judgey and speak a good game…

Not every breeder can take in a new dog to their living space. Many of us live in small homes. Some of us have VERY nice kennels (as nice as our house!) Why do people judge those that have kennels? Most of those breeders you all kiss their asses have kennels. And you buy their pups and you purchase their semen. Why support what you don't believe in? Oh yeah, I forgot, you are all going for the ever lovin' ribbon too, after all…don't deny it.

Give me a break. Such two faced people…but that is what happens when you have an anonymous forum…people who hide (for good reason) behind a made up name. I hope it makes them feel better. They are the only ones they are helping.

Funny fact, those commenting on this thread have actually drugged their own dogs for the show ring…they just won't admit it.

Since no one has named themselves, I'm really curious how you can profess to know the folks have drugged their dogs and claim it as fact. Seems to me to be conjecture at best.

I really hope this is true and the poor girl is reunited with her family. I am just shocked at your OP, it made me sick to my stomach. It makes me want to cry to think about what this poor pup went through while with you. She was no better off with you than she would have been in a shelter. You are not thinking about what is best for this wonderful breed, you care only about the glory, only about yourself. It is so sad and you know what? Karma is a b*tch. Please stop breeding, you don't deserve to even own a Lab.

What a total judgmental POS you are! Who do you think you are to tell this person how horrible they are because they do not take care of the dog the way you think they should?

It's a dog. Dogs live in kennels. Dogs adjust. You weren't there to see the dog and by the sounds of you and few others read way too much into the post and put your elitist human feelings on to this dog. Instead of making suggestions you berated this person and attacked her. SHAME ON YOU. Yes, karma is a b*tch and I hope she is visiting you shortly for your absolute horrible treatment of a fellow human being.

I disagree with you Pot Stirrer. My first and last post about this. I've heard about it from others and finally read it to my dismay. This dog obviously wasn't raised in a kennel for 2 years, she was raised in a home and is vocal that she isn't happy as a kennel or show dog. She's telling you something. Either love her out of the kennel or give her a good home where she'll be back in a house once again. I doubt you would want to live differently then you do now. Bring a thin mattress out to the kennel and live there with her for a few days then tell us how much you wanted to complain too.She could teach you how to bark out your complaints. Would you OP want water sprayed at you or a shock collar for complaining about a lifestyle you weren't used to? It sounds like that's all she's doing, complaining about a lifestyle she never lived before. Don't drug her, what are you doing to improve the breed by doing that? Nothing!

I think there's alot more to this story then was told. I also wonder why she is still not spayed if in a pet home at age 2? I don't like pups spayed at 6 months but do expect buyers to spay 3 months after 1 heat or by age 18 to 24 mo's for pet home boys in the best interests of the dogs skeletal health. See Chris Zink, early spay-neuter articles. This girl has probably gone through 2 to 3 heat cycles already. Just saying and wondering if she was supposed to come back to have a litter for the OP or some other arrangement. That happens much more then some discuss until they have those extra litters.

From a house to an apartment back to a house that fast. It's a miracle. A miracle for that dog let her be reunited with her family, live in a home again and give up the kennel life she despises and didn't know anything about.

I hope the owners keep her and take care of her. Cause if I had a dog that I 'had' to give up and then I got a house I would be on the phone with the breeder to get my dog back. Not the other way around!!

Well now, do you feel better? MY dogs do NOT live in kennels, they are a part of the family, loved and cherished. I am not too worried about karma but thanks for the heads up. Now go take a xanax, you obviously need one.

You are such a peach! Just because all your dogs live in your house you think you are better than those who chose to have dogs in kennels? You think that gives you the right to judge others and tell them they should never own a dog? Where and how do you think the descendants of your dogs used to live? Before all this humanizing of dogs stuff? Yeah, that's right they all lived in kennels! So thank all those breeders before you that bred the many litters to produce the numbers of dogs they did so that you can sit back and judge them all for keeping their dogs in kennels!

Dogs are dog not little fur kids or fur babies. Family is human, not dogs. These are our pets, but they NEVER take the place of real humans. But by the sounds of things you don't care one iota for your fellow human and attack at the drop of a hat if it goes against your self-appointed elitist view. Stay up on your self-righteous high horse. We can all see what a nasty, vile person you really are. Get a grip, you're delusional! Your name fits you as you truly are disgusting!