MY YELLOW LAB DOES BOTH BEATING AND PICKING UP,IF YOUR WILLING TO PUT THE WORK IN AND TRAIN IT WELL THERE ISNT ANY REASON FOR A DOG NOT TO DO BOTH!!
and as for chocolate labs its rare to find a good worker,ive spent many of lessons with people banging my head .because they bought a choc lab willy nilly without considering the state of the pedigree!!!a full 5 generation pedigree without a working dog insite.all show strain!! ps not saying all chocs are bad!!