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Retriever pet care guide
The Labrador retriever wasn’t recognised by the British kennel club until 1903 and didn’t make its debut in the United States until 1917, they were originally called the lesser Newfoundland dog or St Johns dog and it was under this name that they were first brought to England in the early 1800`s.
It was a man by the name of the Earl of Malmesbury that first gave them the name Labrador retriever when he wrote letters and referred to them as his Labradors.
