Labradors

[Mrs Magpie]

Yeah. I think they descended from Gannets.

 

[ill-informed]

my old lab regurgitated a whole pheasant on the kitchen floor, then tried to eat it again.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Here's Cal.....

He's starting calm down and listen to me now as he's about 2 and a half. But he's still desparate to play with every dog he comes across, and will still pinch food (last night he had a loaf of bread).

Blind Lemon's Guide dog is just the same (unless he's working) and he's 7.

 

[ill-informed]

I take Cal work with me most days (gardening), so he's learnt a lot of commands and he's highly trained for his age, but what i'd like is to get him carrying and fetching.

 

[two sheds]

I take Cal work with me most days (gardening), so he's learnt a lot of commands and he's highly trained for his age, but what i'd like is to get him carrying and fetching.

I want one you can train to do the washing, was wondering today whether you could train them to do washing up too.

 

[PacificOcean]

They are unbelievable on the food theft front.

My lab is very funny with food.

She goes days without eating her dinner and never steals food or rummages through bins.

She also won't eat if you are in the same room.

 

[Madusa]

i so badly want a choco lab. I think I might have to settle down someplace and get one for my 30th birthday.

 

[oryx]

i once saw a lab swallow an entire birthday cake in the blink of an eye

My parents' Labrador devoured the entire contents of a cheeseboard nobody was keeping an eye on.

 

[Roadkill]

They are unbelievable on the food theft front.

I have a very vivid childhood memory of my mum making a flapjack and leaving it to cool on the worktop in the kitchen. Our labrador, Oscar, must have been less than a year old at the time and maybe she didn't think he'd be able to get at it. However, I went through to the kitchen to get a glass of water a few minutes later, to be confronted with Oscar stretched to his fullest height, paws up on the worktop, guzzling flapjack. I think he had about half of it. He was very much in disgrace after that.

Oscar, in his old age:

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Roadie, why is there an old person with a crown hiding behind the sofa?

 

[Roadkill]

Roadie, why is there an old person with a crown hiding behind the sofa?

That's my great uncle. IIRC the picture was taken on Christmas Day, hence the hat.

 

[Scarlette]

I've spent the weekend looking after my sister's chocolate Lab. I used to have a yellow one and now want one again so badly. It would be wrong to have one in a fourth floor flat, wouldn't it? Sigh.

 

[Ceej]

The ex has two rotties - he's a major dog person and has had dogs his entire life - border collies, brindle boxers, and a samoyd. The rotties have the nicest natures, and although they're big, powerful dogs, they are incredibly gentle, and nothing like the devil dogs depicted in the redtops if properly raised. The samoyd used to audibly laugh, and the border collie was a freaking nutjob - the most highly strung animal I've ever met. It used to have this mad vertical take-off thing going on at the slightest noise - would literally jump into the air. Most unnerving.

Surprised to hear the labs stats - they always seem the most aimiable of dogs.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

The ex has two rotties - he's a major dog person and has had dogs his entire life - border collies, brindle boxers, and a samoyd. The rotties have the nicest natures, and although they're big, powerful dogs, they are incredibly gentle, and nothing like the devil dogs depicted in the redtops if properly raised.

I was attacked by a rottie, but I'm pretty sure the owner was deliberately training it to be mean. I was lucky enough to have a laundry basket with me to fend it off.

 

[DotCommunist]

IME Labs are stooopid animals. Adorable but thoroughly devoid of intelligence

 

[Pip]

Hmmm. They're easy to train, but how much that has to do with intelligence and how much it has to do with an eagerness to please I don't know. I think it's a bit unfair to call them stupid though mostly