Shelties4me
Posted : 5/4/2007 9:04:51 PM
Me too! We currently own our third chocolate and would like to get a black sometime soon. We got our first two chocolates as puppies not too long after my husband and I first met. Our male lived to be a ripe old age of thirteen and our female was fourteen when we lost her. They were our babies! We even had a picture of them, dressed in their own wedding clothes, sitting on a table at our wedding reception. I know....sick! They were the best dogs we'll ever own!
My husband is an avid duck and goose hunter so our dogs are trained to retrieve. It's alot of fun to watch them do what they love! They are so loyal and smart and have such a great sense of humor. How can you not love a Lab?!
Quick, short story - I have a friend who loves the big, hairy Northern sled dog and herding dog breeds. She has a Border Collie mix, an Aussie, an Aussie mix and a Husky mix on her farm. She never could understand my love for Labs and other sporting breeds. She thought they were boring everyman's breeds. Right before she moved out of state, she took in a yellow Lab someone dumped at her farm. She wrote me after she got settled in her new farm and said "I get it now!". She said out of all her dogs, the Lab made her smile and laugh the most and those big, brown eyes melted her heart!
We'll always own at least one Lab as long as we're financially and physically able. I feel sorry for every dog whose been dumped but especially Labs. Their former owners will never understand what they gave up!
Here's a picture of our current chocolate, Copper, after a successful goose hunt and a fun picture of my sister's Bassador doing what he loves most in life!