LOL
Yeah, makes me crazy, because people are always coming up to me with my golden retrievers asking, "Is that a golden lab?" Of course, now I have to admit that when I got my first golden retriever (a rescue) I got her for my husband, thinking she was the same thing as a lab....
As for < > I had no idea they weren't spelled carrots. But...don't tell anyone!
;)
susie
We were over at a friend's house - he has a three year old son who just started in his first T-Ball league. So he's out in the yard practicing his throws at one of those net things. He misses the net, and down goes the baseball about 30 feet into a tangle of honeysuckle, ivy, and briars. His daddy (who's standing barefoot on the lawn) starts to wade into the tangle, and I said, "Wait a minute."
I put the Shelley dog in heel and unsnapped her leash, put out my hand and said, "There's a dead bird in there, girl. Dead Bird. BACK!" She took off into the honeysuckle on a dead run. She went a little left, I whistled between my fingers, she turned and sat, I gave her a right "over" and she ran right over the baseball. She looked at me like, "That ain't a duck OR a bumper!" and I said, "Take It!" and she picked it up, ran to me, flipped into "heel", sat, and delivered to hand.
Everybody's mouth was hanging open. My mouth was hanging open too because she's just started blinds, but I shut it quick and acted like she did this every day . . . < g >