“Spokesperson says Scott was forced to send him back after he bit an employee”
“Have since adopted a seven-year-old lab called Tallee”
“The family decided that the best decision for the dog and all those who visit (the Governor’s Mansion) would be to have the grooming business find Reagan a more appropriate home with less people and activity,’ Sellers said. ‘It was a hard choice that sometimes pet owners have to make.’
Last Monday, reporters confronted Scott about the case of the vanishing dog. The governor said that Reagan ‘scared the living daylights’ out of everyone living at his Tallahassee mansion and that it wasn’t working out.
The dog, he said, would not stop barking if he saw a person carrying something.
Scott said that because of Reagan’s temperament, he had no choice but to return him to his previous owner.”
The January 2013 article gives both reasons, this June 2014 article only gives the lesser reason. Couldn’t be that the second author was less interested in the whole story so close to Election Day, could it?
Yellow labs are more aloof than black labs. I saw far more biter warnings in the yellow labs’ (especially the male ones) files than in the black labs’ files.
[Yellow labs are more aloof than black labs.]
Yellow labs have minds of their own. We briefly had one that took off and made her way to a grocery store. She discovered she could open the automatic door by standing on it and quickly discovered the meat counter.
The store clerks threw her out and she immediately came in through the automatic door.
We gave her away.