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Did your Blonde Lab allow visitors to get out of the car?

We had a big collie who would approach visitors cars and put her paws up on the car and look in and bark at them. People would sit in the driveway and honk the horn until we came out and lead the dog away.

As long as the children weren't outside, she was as gentle as a lamb. If the kids were out playing, she was their greatest protector.

When #3 was a baby, a neighbor stopped by to help dig up some plant divisions I'd promised her. I set #3 on a blanket in an Infantseat. The dog sat on the blanket beside the baby and kept a front leg stretched across the top of the Infantseat. We could never determine whether the dog thought the baby might jump out of the seat, or perhaps that the neighbor had visions of snatching the baby.

She was a great companion to our kids. When #1 wandered off one day as a 3 y.o. she went with him. When we'd call him she'd bark, but she wouldn't leave him.