...great family dog & loves to be in the duck-blind.
My Lab puppy is a challenge. She is headstrong and likes the taste of people better than most of her chew toys. I’ve had her just a little more than a month.
I’ve had three so far. Terrific dogs.
This is Westminster Kennel Club's description of the Lab (from their web-site):
"The Labrador is a retrieving gun dog of medium size, with a dense, weather-resistant coat, an "otter" tail, and a clean-cut head with a "kind" expression. The first Labradors arrived in England from Newfoundland aboard fishing boats early in the 19th century, and imports to this country began in the early 1900s. Labrador temperament is outgoing, indulgent with peers, human oriented and tractable. Labradors can be found in guide and assistance dog programs, and substance detection and search and rescue work. Since 1992, the Labrador Retriever has headed the list as the most popular breed in the U.S."
You see? GUN dogs. They're obviously "bitter clingers" and cannot be expected to win such a high class, progressive dog show as that put on by the Westminster Kennel Club.
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He's taught me ... at three years old ... that all those old people I used to laugh at because they treated their little poopsie miniature poodle or some other silly looking / acting animal so embarassingly stupid .... really had something going on no one knows about .... until THEY get one too
Bubba's AKC black Lab and we've never experienced such neat things before in a living being.
example;
Bubba has his own bed (at 90 lbs .. he'd BETTER !) out in the living room ... and when we go to bed, he comes in with us, lies down on the floor until he (apparently) feels comfortable everything is alright ... and then he goes out to his bed
MY sleep habits have been totally screwed up (and never recovered) since I retired from truck driving two years ago ...
So I'll get up at 1 or 2 or 3 AM (whatever) and grab a cup of coffee and freep
Bubba goes in and lies down beside Liza's side of the bed until I return (sometimes hours) later
Then he stretches and pads out to his bed and goes back to sleep
I've seen this routine a hundred times .... He knows Liza is not to be left alone
That's the way I see it, and that is an amazing thing to us for a dog to do
I love Labs and wish I had a big enough yard to keep one. Keeping a lab confined to the house or my postage stamp sized back yard would be cruel in my opinion.
Golden Doodle - all the love of a Golden, intelligence of a poodle and none of the allergies.
Anybody who has had a Lab knows they are the definition of Man’s Best Friend. Better than most humans.
We have had the top 3 dogs.
Had a Chocolate lab that loved to chew on my dad’s dresser, she would get into his fishing lure making supplies to get the bottle of cod liver oil and she loved to get into the duck pen. She killed one of our Mallard ducks on accident but learned how to chase and catch the remaining one and just hold it in her mouth and swim in the tub with her for a while. Then she would release her, leave the pen and go about her business. She would do this several times a day. The duck figured out how to just go limp and she would be fine. I miss her still after 22 years. The cat missed her too and died a few months after she did. He would get into the cookie jar to get her some cookies. She never grew out of her puppy stage.
The GS was my grandmas but she couldn’t handle him. We had Shane for a while then gave him to a cop in Dade City Florida. Sadly some scum bags killed him execution style and did a Colombian necktie. He was a good dog and didn’t deserve that.
Had a Golden given to us in 2004. She died in 2011 and I miss her everyday. She was still a puppy occasionally and would chew. She also had a cat but he died in 2009. She missed him for several months afterwards.
Eventually I want another Golden and lab. Right now have a long haired miniature dachshund my sister dumped on us a few weeks after the Golden died. My mom also has a mutt she adopted but I seem to be the one that takes care of them both. I prefer the bigger dogs.