Reference: American Kennel Club (AKC), Labrador Retriever breed history
More facts about dogs.
Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.
English aristocrats, especially the Earls of Malmesbury and the Dukes of Buccleuch, imported dogs from Newfoundland in the 1800s and developed them into the Labrador Retriever. Their breeding programs essentially saved the breed after the original St. John's water dog died out.
Bigfoot, Yeti & Sasquatch refer to the same mysterious man / ape beings which have been reported around the world from the Pacific Northwest in the united states to the Canadian wilderness, to the slopes of the Himalayas, and to the forests of Siberia.