As far as Labs go... I'm very soured by labradors. I dated a chick whose family was very into animals. They trained their dogs very well, and... the older one seemed much smarter and calmer, but the younger one was just dumb as a box of rocks. We're talking wagged its tail so hard it had to be amputated after it started bleeding all over the walls. I've also met poorly trained labs that were dumb as a box of rocks, but they were understandably more awful. So, my personal experience with labs is very one sided and I'm making decisions based on that. Theyre also very popular, (perhaps with good reason) but I tend to go for much rarer things in life. Hence the SRT-4 in a world of mustangs and camaros. The Triumph in a world of harleys and the Japs. And, maybe soon, a Viz or Weimer in a world of labs.