Golden lab? Don't you mean a "Golden Retriever". There are three types of labradors: White (also called "yellow"), chocolate, and black. There is an entirely different species called a
golden retriever, which usually has long, finer hair, distinctively more orange-golden fur that is white at the roots but golden near the tips. A labrador's fur is typically uniform, is fuzzy when its a puppy, and becomes course and thick (very beaverlike) when its older, which is perfect fur for a dog that regularly swim, as labs are called "water-dogs". Their fur dries quickly, while a golden's is very silky and not as firm, so water takes twice as long to dry and turns the fur into long dipping curtains. The tail is also a giveaway. A lab has a "beaverlike" tail with close skin-hugging fur, while a golden's tail has the same swishy long fur that hangs over the tail.
Sorry about that
, I currently have two dogs: a black lab named Rocky (male) and a golden retriever named Summer (female), so I know the difference plenty.
In fact, here's a pic of them together (transfixed by a piece of london broil steak my Mom is using to get their attention for the picture off-camera).
Here's Rocky alone; he's a dumb dog, but he's
our dumb dog...
And here's Summer, being lazy (but cute)...
Personally, I don't know how thrilled I am about naming a dog after a DBZ character. It just seems to make the dog less a part of your family and more as some cute little living toy...that's just me tho, I'm no one to judge.