[armymarinemom]

• Labs are clowns until they day they die.
• Great family members who are a ton of fun and frustration.
• Buy a lot of nylon and rawhide chews. Lab's chew a lot but are smart enough to be trained about what is legal to chew. (we never trained our lab not to chew the eyes out of stuffed toys-stubborn LOL)
• He will out smart your kids for years. Labs always look for a chance for a child to leave a door open. Boom they are out.
• Ours leaned how to spell the word lake. If we discussed taking him swimming we had to think of new words to describe lake or he went bonkers.
• If you go with an invisible fence prepare to buy the difficult dog collar. Our lab would run through the fence and then bark for us to turn off the fence when he was ready to return home. The busting out of boundaries stopped when we bought a bigger voltage collar.

[CedarDave]

You forgot one:

• Small children must not be allowed near his tail; it will knock them down.

My dog develped a bad case of "happy tail" with the tip of the tail becoming raw due to banging it against walls, doors, funtiture, etc. He was a combination pure bred golden retriever (mother) and a black lab fence jumper who got into the mother's yard one day to do the deed.

[CedarDave]

You forgot one:

• Small children must not be allowed near his tail; it will knock them down.

My dog develped a bad case of "happy tail" with the tip of the tail becoming raw due to banging it against walls, doors, funtiture, etc. He was a combination pure bred golden retriever (mother) and a black lab fence jumper who got into the mother's yard one day to do the deed.