We were interested in a springer as our first dog but then we got onto labs .apparantly they are usually a good choice to go with cats (we have 2 house cats) and the mrs fell in love with chocolate labs, the rest is history!
Ours is now 7 months and so well behaved. She doesn’t chew anything in the house other than her toys (of which there are plenty!), she walks good off the lead, plays with my nieces and nephews – never any concern that they’d come to any harm. Left fir a few hours on a morning and an afternoon with no bother. Just such a sweet natured dog.
She even let’s us make her look daft :-)