My point was that labradors are ridiculously popular, you are not going to stop people getting them because they don't have retrieval work for them to do. And t

My point was that labradors are ridiculously popular, you are not going to stop people getting them because they don't have retrieval work for them to do. And that's mostly fine, a lab that gets a 30-40m walk (especially off-lead) every day and isn't over-fed is fine IMO. I just think 'working dog' is ill-defined (most breeds are technically, so colloquially it generally means a dog that you use for work, which makes the advice tautological) and so it's not really helpful advice.