I am always surprised by dogs that don't like a harness or collar. Cooper does not like most tools (brush, clippers etc) but she and all of our...
Our first Lab, Ginger, got stung many times one day when we were hiking and she came across a yellow jacket nest in the middle of the trail....
We always have a huge tree. 9' to 10' Living in the tree farm state, we can get a U-Cut tree for $25. Last year we put the puppy fence...
Salt might be a problem, but snow and ice never seem to bother our dogs. Tilly used to run 3-1/2 miles down the glade ski trail several times a...
American Field dogs tend to be taller and slimmer, (US breed standard is an inch taller) I don't think color has anything to do with it. All...
Tilly has always had saggy lower eyelids, so she looked like a blood hound or basset. Some of the time they would have quite a bit of...
Absolutely normal. It will last nearly 4 weeks, but probably very little discharge and she should be fertile for only about a week. Problem is...
I think that is an old wives tale!! We have had 3 Chocolate Labs and none of them have had any real behavior issues. Actually when I read...
We had to put our two on canned food for a few days after Cooper's spay surgery. OMG it would have cost us more than $30 per day to feed them...
I'm anxiously waiting for Cooper to grow out of her attention bark:rolleyes:
Cooper's huge wire crate is in the kitchen. We put a blanket over it so it is fairly dark and Cooper often sleeps there in the daytime. We...
Giving them good things to chew on may help. We always have nylabones and sterile bones around, but if we are going to be gone for a while we...
Our two do it in the house and some times it gets a little noisy. Cooper often does a high pitched play bark when they play fight which is...
I prefer that our dogs bark when someone comes to the door. Tilly (and Ginger before her) sound like big aggressive dogs when someone come up to...
Our labs have always had rawhides, nylabones, and sterile bones to chew on. Rawhides are gone pretty quickly but the other two last for a long...
Can He get out on his own?
In the Pacific NorthWest at least, most all the Labs we see are Field lines. The breeders we have dealt with, never show them, and only breed...
We had always heard that Field Trial Dogs lived about 5' off the ground. Tilly's mom was a Master Hunter and her dad was a Field Trial Champion....
FWIW, Our newest female, Cooper, weighs 85# and stands 25" at the withers so you can't predict size based on sex. Males are supposed to be a...
I left our back gate open a few weeks ago. The first I knew about it was 5 min. later when Cooper was standing on the front porch asking to be...
