Dog pics

[oosik]

DieselBound - I would be estimating - between 60 to 65 pounds. Have you ever tried to get a Lab puppy to stand on bathroom scales? He couldn't quite figure out what the game was but he was sure anxious to play. At his age - EVERYTHING is a game.

 

[Jstpssng]

Pick him up and get on the scales, then put him down and weigh yourself. They're great dogs, and the only kind that I would have. The smarter the dog though, the more attention they need. My last lab used to sit in the truck watching kids play and drooling, she wanted to join them so badly. Ruger is just recovering from surgery after wrecking both knees this summer, he wants to go bird hunting but needs to wait this season out.

 

[firebird93]

here's my little girl! all 120 pounds of her

 

[Dftodd]

Chocolat lab are good dog!!!
Here Virgil, 5year old.

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Son came home with a chocolate lab that was a stray running around the woods. He named him biscuit and they were inseparable for years. Biscuit actually saved him once. Son was out hunting and got into a water mocasin nest fell into the water when he was surprised. Biscuit swam between the snakes and my son. Got ate up in the groin in the process. Biscuit pulled through and survived the bites, but cancer got him a couple years later.

 

[Dftodd]

the smarter the dog though, the more attention they need. (

That's the truth!!!! Plenty of training time and play time makes it so much easier and less destructive :thumsup:

Our shepherd is really smart, had plenty of play time. But she was a land shark till we got her engaged more. She really took to a fast paced obedience training. She started out in puppy school at one of the local pet stores. She did fantastic with the training, but it was evident that she got bored with the repetiveness and slower pace. A couple of times working with her on something and she had it down packed.

After puppy school we went to a private trainer instead. The pet store sessions were 20 minutes of working with the dog followed by 40 minutes of sales pitches which left us frustrated since we were paying for an hours worth of class each week for her and us.

The private trainer specialized in personal protection and police dogs, but also did obedience training. She went for obedience training and thrived on it. Learning a couple new commands each week plus reinforcing what she learned already. They made it challenging for her with the distractions which were dogs doing bite work and running scenarios or obstical courses.

Some of the lessons were turned into games for her which she really enjoyed

 

[Stupit]

A high speed shot of my Ridgebacks wrestling with their two best golden retriever buddies.

 

[sixdogs]

Mine and my "grand-dogs". Bryce (top), Duke (left), and Buddy the Psycho (right).View attachment 576411

Al these dog pics are cute but this one is especially nice. Looks like a happy home for them.

 

[Jstpssng]

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A high speed shot of my Ridgebacks wrestling with their two best golden retriever buddies.

Great shots!
That first looks like something from a National Geographic, depicting a wild dog pack taking down prey.
Then relaxing after a hard day on the set.

 

[Welshman]

Al these dog pics are cute but this one is especially nice. Looks like a happy home for them.

Thanks, Sixdogs. My daughters dogs are getting more attention than they have in the past (she works), and they are enjoying every minute of it.

 

[bunyip]

Our late Corgi, always alert and always on the move, missed nothing.....

 

[Streetcar]

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A high speed shot of my Ridgebacks wrestling with their two best golden retriever buddies.

I had a ridge back cross that ran like the wind if gate was left open. He ran for about an houR before returning. The was told by ridgeback show dog owner that they were hard to train off leash

 

[goeduck]

Our late Corgi, always alert and always on the move, missed nothing.....

That must have been a LONG snooze. :laughing:

 

[check]

Jasper waiting to go for a walk at the cottage.



And trying on his new winter coat!



Not too happy about it now, but he will appreciate it at 20 below!

 

[oosik]

Jasper is SO cute in that winter coat. He DOES look slightly pissed in the bottom picture. The bother of putting on the coat - he gets hot during the process - its all OK once outside.

 

[oosik]

However - my ten month of pup - Olly, chocolate lab - loves to run thru the cattails at the end of the little lake. We return to the house and he is so pleased to smell like a pond. Oh, well - I guess, better to smell like a pond than to smell like cow poo.

The opportunity to roll in fresh cow is RIGHT THERE if we walk the other direction.

 

[check]

Jasper is SO cute in that winter coat. He DOES look slightly pissed in the bottom picture. The bother of putting on the coat - he gets hot during the process - its all OK once outside.

SWMBO calls it his “smoking jacket”

 

[Jstpssng]

However - my ten month of pup - Olly, chocolate lab - loves to run thru the cattails at the end of the little lake. We return to the house and he is so pleased to smell like a pond. Oh, well - I guess, better to smell like a pond than to smell like cow poo.

The opportunity to roll in fresh cow is RIGHT THERE if we walk the other direction.

There's nothing a Lab loves more than rolling in something smelly.

 

[DieselBound]

I'm glad that I don't live where I'd need to consider bundling up dogs. But as they say, if it ain't one thing it's another, and my dogs are subjected to a LOT of rain. My late dog didn't like water all that much, she'd just kind of deal with it, though if she was on scent she'd be out and going in the rain for quite a while. Nine-month-old pup could care less about getting wet. She runs the ditches, sending water all over the place (she'll often end up coughing because she's sucking up water as she runs with her head down!). Pretty much have to hose her down (mud); then drying off is like handling a big bag of squirrels. Both Lab mixes.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
My last lab was like that. She would walk right past her bowl of fresh water to go outside and drink from a mud puddle. It was kind of comical to watch her go charging through the puddle with her mouth down. Yet when on a leash she would walk around them.
She was woods smart, she started going with me at 6 weeks old. On a rainy morning I would leave the house door open and say "are you going with me or staying here?" sometimes she would go wait by the truck but other times would go inside and jump up on the couch. (I habit I will never allow anymore.)

 

[DieselBound]

^^^ Ha ha! My puppy will go outside on the deck and drink water out of various things that have managed to catch rainwater. Don't know how she'll be behaving when she is mature but right now there's ZERO hesitation to go outside if someone is going out: if we open the door and tell her to go outside and go potty she'll act like she has no idea what we're talking about :laughing:

Our previous dog was 11 mos when we got her, so no real idea how she was when she was younger. The puppy (now at 9 mos) is very close in appearance but has an entirely different character (not reserved at all!): she's extremely sweet, perhaps even more so than our other dog was.