Ours just walks into the shower. We have to make sure the door is fully closed. She loves to jump into the grandbaby's pool, the sprinklers.Certainly not a Leisure Activity. But I guess there is no Chores sub-forum, is there?
Hate bathing my Black Lab, cause he hates it to. "Stay! Stay!"
This one hates water. But he's a Lab! Though rescue and mix believed. Looks Lab though. You say bath, go for a swim, or grab the hose, gone!
This one hates water. But he's a Lab! Though rescue and mix believed. Looks Lab though. You say bath, go for a swim, or grab the hose, gone!
But loves the air compressor blow nozzle and being vacuumed. Goes nuts!
A Lab is usually up for anything goofy. They're great dogs. Our girl is a rescue and her devotion is beyond any other dog we've ever had.This one hates water. But he's a Lab! Though rescue and mix believed. Looks Lab though. You say bath, go for a swim, or grab the hose, gone!
But loves the air compressor blow nozzle and being vacuumed. Goes nuts!
Our girl has never found a people food that didn't give her bubbles. She also lets us know when we have mail. She sits by the window with her head on the top of the pillow and very quietly goes "woof."
Our Golden Retriever Maja died two years ago. We are too old to get another dog and life is so much worse without one. Sorry for this lapse into self pity.
@Chock Full o Nuts, thank you for sharing a little bit about your present baby. He sounds like my kind of guy. You've got to love a dog who loves and protects his home and family but gets a little feisty if intruders invade. After all, fending off invaders is that dog's serious job! I'd love to hear more stories when you have them.Wow NewfieMom, sorry to hear of your recent loss so young.. Hope you find yourself to take in a other dog when you're ready.
Sounds like you've had some dogs like my present 'Lab' here. He's very defensive of his home turf. Barking and wanting to eat everything! Though get out away from home, a big baby.
When younger he busted out a couple times to get after something. Saw a cat once from a spot of the backyard which is just a chain link gate and took off to another spot which is privacy fence and at a full speed run, nose down, blew right through the bottom of it like it wasn't there. Had to add a strip of board along the very bottom to prevent that..
Nipped the lady next door's arm pretty good once(he doesn't like her at all). She came over to the fence to talk(nosey) and while I'm trying to wrangle him as wife is talking to her, she puts her arm over the fence as he's running from me and makes a round right back at her. Of course I offered to pay to get her checked out, though not responsible. She called the cops.
Cop of course said on her. She put herself there on our property with an obviously aggressive dog. And I have that area covered by camera.
He does keep us mole free though. He'll lay and stare, looking for movement, sniff it out, dig up and dead..
The real boss of the house is our Toy Yorkie though(profile pic). He dare not mess with her. Vicious!
She has several beds around the house and still steals his big ones and sprawls out. He just looks at me like WTF? It's mine?..
Well, there was the time the boy didn't latch the screen door right(which has metal 'pet proof' mesh on it and double latches low on it to prevent this possibility) and an older lady was walking her dog by. There he goes barking, rams it, pops open, out he goes!@Chock Full o Nuts, thank you for sharing a little bit about your present baby. He sounds like my kind of guy. You've got to love a dog who loves and protects his home and family but gets a little feisty if intruders invade. After all, fending off invaders is that dog's serious job! I'd love to hear more stories when you have them.
, almost coon(don't do that, could get nasty..). Nah, he's a good dog, but a dog no less. I'm sure there's more that escapes the mind at the moment.
@Chock Full o Nuts, thank you for sharing a little bit about your present baby. He sounds like my kind of guy. You've got to love a dog who loves and protects his home and family but gets a little feisty if intruders invade. After all, fending off invaders is that dog's serious job! I'd love to hear more stories when you have them.
Yes, my Newfie was a terrible guard dog. He was the polar opposite of Hero, my last dog, who barked at everything and drove the neighbors crazy. Griffin almost never barked at all. Once in a great while we'd hear a single "Woof" in his bass voice. But he had no notion of guarding anything. He lay across our front walk and people had to step over him. Once when he had fallen deeply asleep on the front walk a pizza delivery man said to my daughter, "Is that dog alive?" I told her she should have told him, "No, we store dead dogs in our front yard".
You will know when you are ready. We get that gut feeling, that piece of the puzzle only a dog can fill.
After losing our daughter our Chocolate Lab was a great comfort. They are such intuitive dogs. She stayed by our side and it seemed she mourned with us. She lived to be 15, old for a Lab. She just held on after several health issues. A friend started fostering and convinced me to do the same. We started with puppies and went onto seniors and cared for them to the end like Darby did for us. We ended up adopting about a dozen dogs who'd have been euthanized or who would have never have been adopted. We have Sadie, a Blue Tick-Plott Hound mix, Minnie, a Yorkie senior and Gus, an English Black lab.