On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 14:49:40 -0800, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>On 2016-03-04 21:08:31 +0000, Ri
ardo <here@glorious-somerset.uk> said:
>
>> On 04/03/2016 16:17, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>>> On 03/03/2016 17:06, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>>>>> On 03/03/2016 13:20, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 03/03/2016 11:24, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> These things are so darned cute, you just want to go give 'em a
>>>>>>>>> scratch behind the ears.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He heard that, and said "yes, please".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is that your lab? Handsome boy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At the moment, my vanilla lab is sleeping on my left foot and my
>>>>>>> chocolate is sleeping on my right foot. Best
>>>>>>> dogs I have ever been owned by.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Charles,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, he's a recent acquisition - eleven years old, would you believe.
>>>>>> He'd been a working guide dog for a blind person for nine years and was
>>>>>> being retired on age grounds. In fact he had worked longer than is usual.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We lost our previous dog, a German Shepherd - also a retired guide dog -
>>>>>> just before Christmas and a very large gap in the home needed filling.
>>>>>> This new boy retired on a Tuesday night and we met up with him the next
>>>>>> day and has been with us for just over a month now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We've supported the UK Charity Guide Dogs for the Blind for over thirty
>>>>>> years, the first fifteen having been spent bringing up puppies for the
>>>>>> first year of their life, from which they underwent a further year's
>>>>>> "college" training before being teamed up with a person. Subsequently we
>>>>>> took on reject and retired dogs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our first ever pup, a yellow lab (as they're known here), failed his
>>>>>> exams and came back to us. He was a great mentor for the puppies in
>>>>>> training with us - including at one time, in the best of Labrador
>>>>>> traditions, showing a puppy how to get plums off the plum tree!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can't beat a Labrador, always our first love in dogs. As you say
>>>>>> "the best dogs to be owned by"!
>>>>>
>>>>> Funny, we have avocado trees and my labs have learned how to climb onto
>>>>> the lower branches and swipe the ripe
>>>>> ones.
>>>>>
>>>>> They call them yellow labs here too, but some, like my Murphy, are the
>>>>> color of vanilla ice cream, so calling
>>>>> him yellow isn't very accurate.
>>>>>
>>>>> Attached is a picture of my boys.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you Charles, they are magnificent. Here's some pictures of
>>>> Fraser's predecessors - both of Guide Dog stock.
>>>>
>>>> Jemma the Labrador departed about 18 months ago, and Rufus the Shepherd
>>>> just before Christmas from very sudden cancer of the liver! Such is life.
>>>>
>>>> On the subject in hand - we've never had a bulldog!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Your monsters were all quite handsome.
>>>
>>> Hard to think of anything in life that has generated greater serenity
>>> than those animals which have chosen to
>>> adopt me.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed, and they get you out of the house, whatever the weather is doing!
>
>My kids back in 1986.
Wonderful, sweet looking labs. You were fortunate indeed.
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