HERE’S A QUESTION I can’t answer: why, when a labrador is crossed with almost any other breed, do the resulting puppies invariably show the greatest similarity to their labrador parent in both looks and temperament? Over the years I’ve met lots of labrador cross-breeds, some the result of accidental matings, others deliberate, but almost always the cross-breed dog looks much more like a labrador than anything else.
Take springadors for example, the classic cross between Britain’s two most popular gundog breeds. Assuming that the cross is between a black
