High-performing pet

ARNING: if you are a labrador enthusiast (and I suspect a majority of Fielders are), you may not want to read any further. I recently had an email from a reader who told me that his grandparents had always had black labradors, as had his parents, but now he is in a position to get his first dog he wants something different. “Let’s face it,” he wrote, “black labradors, or any colour of labradors, are so boring. They may be brilliant at bringing you your slippers, but there’s