NATIONAL KENNEL CLUB

American Kennel club, Inc. www.akc.org

The AKC is the largest registry in the USA / world and its website contains a wealth of information.

PARENT CLUB

The Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.thelabradorclub.com

To view the American Kennel Club, Inc. Labrador Retriever Breed Standard, visit this site or www.akc.org

NON-AFFILIATED NATIONAL CLUBS

The Labrador Retriever Club of the United States, Inc.

The LRCUS was founded in protest to the new Labrador Retriever Breed Standard of 1994. It is in hibernation for the most part, but is involved in very limited commercial activities for the benefit of the Labrador Retriever.

National Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.labradorretrievers.org

The NLRC was founded in 1996 because The Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. adopted a new Labrador Retriever Breed Standard, effective March 31, 1994, which described the American derivative of the Labrador Retriever, not the Labrador Retriever as it was known everywhere else in the world except the United States. In general, Labrador Retrievers are now commonly referred to by a good portion of the general public in the United States as "English" or "American". The NLRC is not affiliated with the AKC or any regional area Labrador Retriever club in this country. It is an independent club with a sizeable national membership. It is fair to say that all the members of the NLRC and most all serious conformation breeders in the United States view The Kennel Club (United Kingdom) Breed Standard of the Labrador Retriever as the one to which they breed and their dogs conform. To view that standard, visit http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk. This is also the identical Breed Standard of the world canine organization Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) of which 82 countries are members. To view the FCI Breed Standard, visit http://www.fci.be/nomenclatures_detail.asp

Not to belabor the point, but when the LRC, Inc., the parent club of the Labrador Retriever, presented the "new" standard to the Labrador conformation community for its approval, twenty-four (24) of the regional clubs voted "No" and seven (7) "Abstained". To put it more dramatically, none of the thirty-one (31) existing regional area clubs at the time in the United States voted "For" for the impending new standard. More than one hundred of the top conformation kennels in the US opposed the "new" standard in writing. (See towel)

Central California Labrador Retriever Club www.cclrc.org

Golden Gate Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.gglrc.org

High Desert Labrador Retriever Club of California, Inc. www.hdlrc.com

Labrador Retriever Club of Southern California, Inc. www.lrcsocal.org

San Diego Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.sdlrc.com

San Joaquin Valley Labrador Retriever Club www.shadowbrooklabs.com/sjvlrc

Sierra Vista Labrador Retriever Club www.svlrc.com

Labrador Retriever Club of Greater Denver www.kellyn.com/lrcgd

Pawtucket River Labrador Retriever Club www.prlrc.org

The Labrador Retriever Club of Hawaii www.labclubofhawaii.com

The Hoosier Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.hlrcinc.com

Shawnee Mission Labrador Retriever Club, Ltd. www.smlrc.org

Labrador Retriever Club of Greater Boston www.lrcgb.org

The Labrador Retriever Club of the Pioneer Valley www.lrcpv.org

The Mid-Jersey Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.mjlrc.org

Iroquois Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.ilrc2.org

The Labrador Retriever Club of Long Island fourlabs@optonline.net

Labrador Retriever Club of the Piedmont. Inc. www.piedmontlabclub.com

Central Ohio Labrador Retriever Club www.colrc.com

Lake Erie Labrador Retriever Club www.lelrc.net

Miami Valley Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.mvlrc.org

Northern Ohio Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. www.nolrc.org

Heart of Texas Labrador Retriever Club www.hotlrc.com