And then, with my daughter's dog, Oz...
Labs are great dogs, we had a black lab back in the 90s.
They are so mellow dogs when they get older.
Our dog when he barked had a hound dog sound to his bark.
Our last dog we had was a all black German Shepherd, very intelligent dogs, and they have different quarks in their personally where you could sware that they are almost human.
Sadly we had to put him down a year 1/2 ago from cancer.
When I would take him for a ride in the car I would be in the driver seat and he would get up on the arm rest/center console he would take his left paw and arm and grab my wrist and hand gently and gently pull it towards his chest towards his little heart as if he was saying “ I love you this much “..
Dogs have a sense of innocence about them.
One time my mom’s and step father’s pastor was praying for my step father holding hands , the dog went up to them and put both his paws on their hands as if he wanted to pray with them too..
Lol...love that last pic where they’re sizing each other up :-)