I got my girls their Christmas presents last night. New Kongs, leather chews and a glow in the dark rubber ball.
There is something to this bird dog stuff. Solitare is a rescued farm Lab puppy. When they were little puppies. Solitare would stand with one foot on a plush toy and pluck the fur off and then go for the belly.
None of my previous dogs did anything like that. It hit me suddenly that is exactly how you would pluck a bird or a rabbit if you were going to eat it.
I lost a lab last year, broke my heart and she had some soft toys that instead of a squeeker had animal specific sounds, the cat mewed, the horse neighed and the dog barked. She loved them. I had to sew them up a time or two from rough play but she didn't intentionally mangle them. She took the cat to bed with her most nights.
I have a multitude of pictures but I'm very green. I do not have clue what you have to do to get a picture out of my computer to send it elsewhere. .
Sorry about the loss of your lab last year...that's always a tough one. The feather plucking sounds cute! It amuses us to see our dogs doing what they were supposed to do.
The dog in the pic that I posted has this thing for red lazers...she will froth at the mouth chasing one. Cannot even SAY the words "lazer" or "red dot" in this house. Most dogs out grow chasing the flash light beam etc, but this dog gets serious with lazers moving along the floor or ground.
At Free Republic, we can't post pics unless we have our own web site where they are stored or a 3rd party host site like village photo or something. I'm using an HP (Ofoto) site to upload the pics to, and sometimes the pic just show as a red X.
Village photo is the easiest and should have clear instructions for newbies:
http://www.villagephotos.com/