Good Morning, Thanks for Adding Us

We are from Ontario, Canada. It's still morning here, and an awfully hot one. Our black Lab is Oban, named for the very pretty town in Scotland. My OH was born in Edinburgh and Oban is bench bred with some Kupros lines in him, a couple of generations back. So I guess we are international.

Looks like this board has a real international flavour (though mostly U.K.?) and it will be fun to learn a different slant on things from folks across the world.

 

Hi and welcome from Mira and me in a hot and sunny Scotland (belated summer!) How old is Oban? Would be lovely to see a photo of him Look forward to chatting.

 

Welcome to the forum from Fred and me.

 

A very warm welcome from me and my chocolate girl Mabel. We are in Coventry in England. Today we took Mabel to her first party in the park at Kenilworth. She managed to sneak half a sausage batch out of the grass. That'll teach me to turn my back for a second.

 

Hi! Welcome to the forums. I am curious to find out what "bench bred" means!

 

Hi and welcome from me and Juno, my 14 month old chocolate girl, from sunny Normandy, France. Look forward to hearing more about Oban.
Jane Martin I would guess that "bench bred" means show line in the UK

 

Welcome from Cooper and me......Cape Cod, United States. We also are having a really hot spell after the hot Summer!!...you would think September would be milder....Oh well, better than the awful Winter we had last year!

 

Thank you for the warm welcomes.

Oban will be eight in October. As of right now he is going by his alternate name of Dirty, Rotten, Stinking Dog. The phone rang, it was a friend the OH has been trying to reach so I answered and ran outside with the phone so they could speak. When I got back the computer keyboard was knocked over and the apple pit I had left wrapped up in a tissue for disposal later was gone. Disposal of that pit and tissue now postponed till they reappear. To be fair, my back was turned for more than a second. LOL

Yes, bench bred = show bred. From days when they did actually stand them all up on a bench for the judge to get a look at. I think little dogs are still put up on benches or tables.

Yvonne, you might guess from my name I love winter. I think yours last year was worse than ours. However I am in a snowbelt and surrounded by ski resorts and both Oban and I are hoping for lots of snow. We are looking at a humidex of 37C for today or about 100F. Ugh.

no photos. I did a stupid, stupid thing. I did not back up my hard drive. A few weeks ago it crashed. Apparently my data can be retrieved but the repair place has had it for three weeks now. I only have a few photos of Oban printed out. What a dummy. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

 

Hello and welcome from Poppy and me, from Germany.

 

Hello and welcome to the party! Chopper says hello from Portland, Oregon. LOL... I believe we've met before in a past life...

 

Hi and welcome from me and Dexter my yellow lab puppy of 13 weeks old.

 

Hi, and welcome from Holly and me in Wales.

 

Hi and welcome from me and 2 year old girl, Harley

 

Hello from me and 5 month old Ella in Melbourne, Australia ☺

 

Hello and welcome to the forum!
Lilly and I live in Scotland, near St Andrews, though we have visited Oban quite recently on a holiday - will try and find some pictures.
Good luck with the computer!!
jac

 

Hi and welcome.
got 3 labs myself Douglas Midge and Rory. I'm from the East Midlands in the UK. Bench Breed means show lines

 

Hi there from Dexter and I .My Husband and I are both Brits but we live in Dubai where we are just about getting the teensiest tease of it getting cooler .....Dubai does hot really well so I can sympathise!Dexter is coming up 3 in a couple of weeks and he's our first dog,a yellow working line fellow x

 

Thank you folks who have responded since my last post. This is our Labour Day weekend, the holiday is today. Hope the computer repair place calls me tomorrow. I've seen a couple of messages from Lab people with pictures of their Lab(s) set up like a postcard and saying Happy Labrador Weekend.

Rory was my grandfather's name. Is your Rory a fox red? One meaning of Rory is apparently "red haired Chieftain" which Grandpa was.

We are looking at 40 C with the humidex today. That's about 103 F. What is it in Dubai? Is yours dry heat or is humidity a factor?

 

Rory is chocolate it can also mean Red haired Warrior, which he isn't xx

 

Hello and welcome from the Isle of Man - we have Belle, an 11-ish year old mongrel collie x and Coco, a 1 year old German Shepherd/Labrador x - we brought him home from rescue only 4 days ago, he's doing very well at fitting in and picking up our household ways. Look forward to seeing photos of Oban.