LAST SEASON, I watched an unusually short-legged labrador picking up on a shoot. It was performing well, so it never occurred to me that there was anything wrong with it until I chatted to the dog’s handler. She told me that it was a two-year-old bitch that had been given to her by its breeder because it suffered from dwarfism, so he had been unable to sell it.
Dwarfism is a relatively common problem in labradors, but it’s not always immediately obvious, and certainly doesn’t stop mildly affected