[goat granny]

your dogs all look like sweethearts, my lab is old and on the lazy side. Read the book on Marley and laughed myself silly...Now that was a dog that took lots of love and PATIENCE.

[AnAmericanMother]

Poor Marley! That book makes me so angry -- the breeder TOLD them that dog would be a handful, and they saw the sire, who was obviously a high-octane dog. Yet they take that poor puppy to a small suburban house as a first dog, and expect him to behave like a little lap dog with the blood of all those field champions raging in his veins . . .

If a suburban family had taken my Ruby as a first dog, she would have hit the pound within months if not weeks. She has to get her hard work in or she is simply unbearable.