In the United States, the breed gained wider recognition following a 1928 American Kennel Gazette article, “Meet the Labrador Retriever”. Before this time, the AKC had only registered 23 Labradors in the country,6 in part because US and UK hunting styles had different requirements.15 Labradors acquired popularity as hunting puppies for sale during the 1920’s and especially after World War II, as they gained recognition as combining some of the best traits of the two favourite United States breeds as both game finders and water labrador puppies for sale.15

Outside North America and Western Europe, the Labrador arrived later. For example, the Russian Retriever Club traces the arrival of Labradors to the late 1960s, as household pets of diplomats and others in the foreign ministry.16 The establishment of the breed in the Commonwealth of Independent States (ex-USSR) was initially hindered by the relatively small numbers of Labradors and great distances involved, leading to difficulty establishing breedings and bloodlines;16 at the start of the 1980s, home-born lab puppies for sale for sale were still regularly supplemented by further imports from overseas.16 Difficulties such as these initially led to Labradors being tacitly cross-bred to other types of retriever.16 In the 1990s, improved access to overseas shows and bloodlines is said to have helped this situation become regularised.16