 Luna at one her favorite playgrounds.
Posted on 12/28/2022 4:14:12 PM PST by allen592
In a viral Instagram video, the sweet pup named Daisy Brown is seen at the door wagging her tail affectionately and leaping for joy as soon as her owner gets home. Daisy apparently couldn't wait for her mom to get home. And after seeing her coming through the glass door, she was like mom I was already missing you!
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Any link NOT Instagram? (asks for login to see)
Not everyone uses those social giveaway sites.
Yep, dogs are wonderful creatures. Cats can be also. 🙂
Video is at instagram. NoGo.
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The owner is abusing the dog with too much food and not enough exercise.
 Luna at one her favorite playgrounds.
Thought that looked like Oregon. What river?
First of all, it's a Lab. Depending on the breeding (show or field) much of the apparent overweight is bone not fat. It's hard to tell with a puppy, but she is very broad across the shoulder and hips in bone - so probably a conformation or show type Lab. I'm a field Lab breeder and not an advocate of the "Flabador" by any means, but I'm not seeing a serious overweight here. Show people, of course, complain that my field girls look like greyhounds with a Lab head stuck on. The happy medium is somewhere in between.
Second - it's a puppy, a young one. They sometimes look a bit chonky because their growth is not steady - they'll put on some weight and then fine out at the next growth spurt. Don't like to keep them too thin when they're small because they may need the weight if they become ill (always a possibility before they get all their shots). My 100 percent field puppies from my Kate's litter looked like this when they were small - now they are racehorses on stilts.
What is the problem with Instagram?
Cool.
Owned by meta.
Cute!
That pup isn’t missing any meals.
But, I see so many overweight and underexercised dogs.
Years ago, when we lived in a suburban neighborhood, I was walking my three lively Labs . . . two 100 percent field bred, the other a conformation-field cross . . . when a lady pulled her car over.
She leaned out and said, "I'm a vet, and I just wanted to say that those are the first Labs I've seen around here that aren't morbidly obese!"
I said, "Thank you! They're all working girls, and most of the Labs around here just wear a path from the sofa to the fridge!"
The real problem is that Labs are descended (mostly) from the extinct landrace of the lesser St John Water Dog, which used to help Newfoundland fishermen pull in their nets and chase loose fish in the cold Atlantic waters. They are cold-water dogs, with a warm double coat and a tendency to put on weight for insulation and calories. If you don't work them, they pack on the pounds! So most Labs you see are overweight.
But I don't think we can say that of this puppy . . . yet!
They had a couple hundred acres of fields, woods and streams to cover, and we used them mostly for upland birds.
Working with a good dog on upland game is a wonderful hunting experience.
My late, great dog Katy - HRCH/UH Green Timber Katy Bar the Door MH CGC - had 15 minutes familiarization with quail before her first Upland test. She aced it! quartered, froze and indicated (she's not a pointing Lab) and was steady to flush and shot. Got her Upland title in four straight passes. She was a darned good dog, just wanted to please you in everything she did. I still have her granddaughter, HR Bar-the-Door Cowboys Folly SH, who lacks one pass for her HRCH.
Cute and happy. Pure love. On average dogs are better than humans IMHO.
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