Lots of pups are water paddlers. Some grow out of it, at least mine did, and most of my friends dogs have too.
Tilly and Cooper look like that when they are playing. They have an amazing amount of teeth, but no one ever actually gets bitten.
Cooper had some lumps initially. The vet used dissolving stitches because Cooper was so hard to work with, that she did not want to have to take...
We got Cooper when Tilly was 9. Tilly put up with Coopers puppy antics, and occasionally told her to stop. Cooper is so much bigger than Tilly...
Mine, especially Tilly love to roll in snow.
We go with rawhide rolls, or knotted bones, not the compressed rawhide. Not because we think it is bad, just that they only last a few minutes...
If you feel you need to take her Chicken, be sure the alternate food is not contaminated with small amounts of chicken. We talked with our vet...
We would like to do a King, but it would mean a major re-adjustment of the furniture. Probably would sleep better though.
With our dogs there is no real connection between pulling on the lead, and recall. Cooper can be sled dog when she first goes out on lead, but...
We always put the crate in the bedroom so we knew what Tilly or Cooper needed. It only took a week or so before we could sleep all the way...
Our dogs have always slept in the bedroom, crated or not. When they were old enough to de-crate they slept on dog beds, or in the case of...
The Vet xrayed Coopers Hips when she was in to be spayed. Said she looked fine, but they could not really give her a clean bill since she was...
When our dogs have been kenneled for a week, I haven't noticed any loss of training when we picked them up. The kennel boards mostly gun dogs,...
Great looking dog. He looks a lot like Cooper. She is about 25" at the butt, and 24+ at the shoulders. We wondered if a Chesapeake Bay...
3 cups a day for a 20# pup seems like a lot, unless you are talking about canned food. I suppose it depends on the food, but Cooper at 18 months...
Our dogs seem to learn not to drink the salt water after their first experience. We are fortunate that almost all the beaches we go to have...
I don't think you can walk or run far enough to injure a 1 year old Lab, unless you are an ultra-marathoner.
One of our friends Sammys got sick after his trip to the beach, and too much salt water. IIRC it took a few days to recover completely. When...
I've never planned to hunt with her. She is almost 11 now and has been this way as long as I can remember. She is the least birdy Lab I've ever...
Our older Lab, Tilly, has always had an obsession with firearms. If you have one out to handle or examine it, she will stand in front of you and...
