Chesapeake Bay Retrievers

[foxinmad]

Cracking photographs

 

[Co1]

Scottish tidal.... Bear.
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What a picture!! They are cracking looking dogs, haven’t seen many but for the ones I have seen they are all huge!! Nothing like a lab in size.

 

[Bowland blades]

Big strong wildfowling dogs, but in the UK I think they are more for show than working dogs. I knew one that belonged to friends - just a big lazy lump of a dog, and not the stuff of legendary working dog folklaw of the Chesapeke bay. I would put Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Red Setters and poodles in a similar - were once very good working breeds, and probably still are in the original vicinit. I would be delighted to be proven wrong. One of childhood books was a first edition of the New Wildfowler and the chapter on dogs opened with the Chesapeake as the best possible wildfowling dog.

I know a lot of Chesapeake owners as a wildfowler and breeders . I dont know a single one of them that would want need to sell one into anything but a shooting home and most of them will be main purpose wildfowling dogs ! No reason to do otherwise they fetch a good third more than a very well bred lab .

 

[Bowland blades]

What a picture!! They are cracking looking dogs, haven’t seen many but for the ones I have seen they are all huge!! Nothing like a lab in size.

They vary in size , have a tendency towards larger than a regular work lab I would say a lab dog is equivalent to a Chesapeake bitch but it's very rough . I know one someone could maybe ride like a donkey but average as I say dog to bitch

 

[SAUER20222250]

Not one gene in common with the Labrador.

 

[SAUER20222250]

.....totally outta control on a shoot day.

 

[Bowland blades]

Not one gene in common with the Labrador.
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Ha , I take it that's just a joke because they are very much from the same ancestors.

 

[Dawnrazor]

.....totally outta control on a shoot day.
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I've got lots of pics of springers and labs like that.........5 seconds later they're coursing a fecking Hare!!!

 

[Dan Newcombe]

Rubbish. They could lose a Lab in a phone box.

Not a ringing endorsement of a hunting dog!

If I wanted a Proper wildfowling dog I don’t think you would go wrong with a well need chessie. It is like to to be as good as a lab but potentially tougher - I wouldn’t have one personally because I can’t remember the last time my dogs had to REALLY swim for a retrieve. On land the ones I’ve seen had had rings run round them by labs but they are a much more powerful dogs

 

[SAUER20222250]

My pups dad....

 

[SAUER20222250]

Hi Dad....

 

[NP435]

Having had both i will say this i prefer the labrador. My chessie was a fantastic retriever and pretty well didn't like most people other than me. I have met other chessie's who were friendly to all. Would i have another maybe only if the dog in question was well socialized from birth mine wasn't and no efforts of mine changed that.

 

[NP435]

My pups dad....
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That is one handsome dog. I admire the breed.

 

[SAUER20222250]

 

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[SAUER20222250]

Why the collar as things get hung up on them....?

Tim.243

Obviously never had to pull a dog onboard or ashore?

 

[john_little]

Good luck and make sure your the boss at all times of training lol , enjoy it as the return will be 100% joy .

And seeing as Chesapeakes are fiercely loyal and protective make sure you socialise too.

 

[Tim.243]

Obviously never had to pull a dog onboard or ashore?

My spaniel has been on in and out of my wildfowling dingy many times....with you re joining in May then

"Obviously" you could have missed a good number of posts with working dogs without collars.....

Dingy done on time.....

My little project finished with a couple of weeks spare before the start of the duck season, I did post some time back about steaming white oak for keel runners. We glass fibered some black water pipe around the outside, also I made the rowlock holders out of 316 stainless with bronze bushes as...

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Ducks on the Flood & Ebb.....Mixed Bag.

A 5pm tide with a strong wind had the makings of a good flight, I dragged my friends dingy so he could save time with the incomming tide, then made my way to my chosen spot. As I picked my way across a new bit of the marsh it looked I would get cut off. However the plan was Terry would drift...

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Tim.243

 

[paul o']

Nice looking CP's there RD ,

 

[SAUER20222250]

Nice looking CP's there RD ,

Thanks pal...