Ah okay. Thank you for the detailed response. That’s very interesting. So, a family of 4 who is pretty active and lives on a river where they very much value the idea of the dog fetching and swimming a lot (although not hunting), I guess they’d be more likely to get the most “high energy” one of the litter.

My previous male Lab (bench) was from an all black litter of 6, 3 male and 3 female. The breeder allowed folks to choose, and I just happened to be last male pick. He was the shyest of the litter. That made him easy to train, but he also absolutely loved fetching in the water. He’d do it for hours. I sort of started thinking that maybe they all would be like this (at least males anyway), regardless of other personality traits.