First Mate Is........

[Rocky]

Standing here with a tennis ball in his mouth giving me that Lab look, you know, the one that says "Play with me!" and/or "Let's eat!" Spending the winter fighting over who gets the easy chair.

[ 01-23-2003, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: Buster ]

[Todd Bradshaw]

This just isn't comfortable....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/p0faadc572b6d3149d304e5ba23b5418f/fcbd7a0d.jpg

And this window seat is a bit narrow....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pe696048c47c96570ccc4719cd3be69b6/fd6826ef.jpg

Ahhhhhhh...just right.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/p918c873b7eb98a38e3fe4986ba7d2f93/fcbd79f5.jpg

[Rocky]

That's the Mate's favorite position too. Must be fun watching him get in that chair!

[Donn]

Todd...that's a great face, in the window seat pic. What a cutie.

[Matt J.]

Cool pup. Todd, yours looks just like our Teddy, only smaller. Iwish I could resolve the issues with accessing our website... I've got some funny pictures of our guys in all manner of strangely comfortable positions napping...

keep em coming
-Matt

[Todd Bradshaw]

That's Clifford. We got him last May from a place in Milwaukee that rescues abandoned dogs and finds new homes for them. They were driving in rural Kentucky, on their way to pick up another dog when they got lost. While trying to figure out where they were, the came across Clifford, hungry, thirsty, dirty, no tags, no collar and just sitting next to the road in the middle of nowhere. They opened the car door and he got in. The vet figured that he was about 6 months old and that somebody had just dumped him.

He looks and acts like a black lab, but he has white toes and a blaze on his chest so who knows what his real ancestry is. He's 14 months now, about 90 lbs. and has taken on the role of "helper dog" (no matter what you're doing, he wants to help).

Here he is just before we adopted him:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/p9c0fd915190f2604f562d64beafcb085/fcbd4688.jpg

and later (he's on the left) playing with his girlfriend from next door:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p9d1ff97236fe039e79bea66e7f40a3fe/fd682702.jpg

and there is nothing better than having your own pool:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pd369a5b1623169a03ae25cabfed898b5/fd682638.jpg

[Matt J.]

That's GREAT!

SuchaGOOboy!

Can't wait til Jenny logs on tomorrow to see that...

Got ours a pool this past year too... they thought we were nuts ("you want me to sit my what in the where!?")
:D

-Matt

[Rocky]

Now there's a happy dog! A little mystery mix is good - he'll live longer, be healthier and more even-tempered.

[ 01-25-2003, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: Buster ]

[Donn]

I've seen lots of pure bred Labs with markings.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

If you have a happy dog, it makes you feel happy doesn't it? :D :D The pool shot is great..

[Chris Boers]

Grady is a Golden Retriever/Lab mix. Here he is enjoying his favorite pastime. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/p0591f1282b743bca8e0ea3220c78531c/fcbc0110.jpg

[Concordia..41]

Years ago when Sugar was a pup, several of my friends had Rhodesian Ridgebacks. The Rhodesians are supreme water lovers, and we couldn't wait to take Sugar to the beach for a group dog-in-the-surf day.

We unloaded dogs and gear near a deserted section of beach and my friend Craig took the leads off of his two Rhodesians and let them run. Sugar was squirming in my arms trying to get down and run after her friends. The Rhodesians were full grown through and stood about waist high.

Sugar's fat little puppy butt tumbling through the sugary sand trying to keep up with the easy loping strides of the Rhodesians was a comedy act in itself, but when they got to the edge of the ocean, Rosie and Bo promptly waded in until the water was chest height. Sugar went right in after them, and if there was ever a $10,000 winner for America's Funniest Videos, it was Sugar running underwater trying to get out to her friends. Dang thing sunk like a rock.

She wasn't a swimmer, but she's far from stupid and came out coughing and spitting and glaring at me for the dirty trick of taking her to play in a big wet blue field that didn't act right.

The rest of the day was spent trying to coax Sugar out into the water. It was absolutely painful for her to see her people and her best dog friends out in the ocean, but she didn't want any part of it. She'd take a few tentative steps out into the surf and about that time take a wave in the face and retreat.

We hadn't given up getting her to like the water though and some time later had her over at a couple's house where there was a pool. The couple's daughters were about 6 and 9 years old and the battle of wills was on. Sugar vs. the little girls.

They'd carry her in the water, sit her in the water, throw toys in the water, throw her in the water, whatever. She make it to the shallow end (she can swim to a degree), climb out and the chase was on – round and round the pool. Finally the girls' father blew up a raft and thought maybe she'd swim to him in the middle of the pool.

She went to him alright. Right up in the raft.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid17/pbff96ed0b692909950c4b1db93f9526d/fdfae2b7.jpg

To this day, she's a fine water dog. Absolutely loves it. Just as long as she's not in it.

Cheers!
- M