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With that friendly, slobbering grin and warm personality, I suspect that the popularity of labs is only partly due to their hunting skills.

But those skills are impressive:

Here is Animal Planet’s look at this beautiful breed —

— and Bailey the Beagle on labs:

More information:

• AKC breed page
• Wikipedia page
• The Canadian Encyclopedia page

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Featured image: Michael Peppenster/Shutterstock

Note:Shutterstock doesn’t allow you to exclude AI from a search these days; the best I could do is “authentic.”

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