[chickenlips]

I love Labs but I would never have one as a house pet.
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They are wonderful dogs, but they can and will eat anything, including gloves, socks, and other assorted things. I have many unsavory stories about what our Lab ingested over the years. He never chewed on furniture, but don’t leave a shoe lying around.

They also have a thick coat of fur and they shed a blizzard of fur.

[Jamestown1630]

I once bought my sister-in-law a beautiful pair of (expensive!) paddock boots. Their Sheltie pretty much ate them up; but their Lab was one of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever known.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I used to watch that show "Yorkshire Vet". Great show. I remember a show where they had to extract odd things from a lab's stomach. They can swallow some really weird stuff.