Why I love labs

[PRO MO]

Anyone got leads on smaller labs? I’d love for my next lab to be under 60lbs.

Roxy, my first dog, recently passed. She was the best girl. 12 great years. Hundreds upon hundreds of retrieves - ducks, geese, grouse, pheasants, quail, Huns, and dove. Best retrieve she ever made was on a beautiful drake wigeon that she watched sail close to a 1/2 mile. Trudging through feet of snow she was gone for probably 15 minutes but went on a line to it and straight back right to me.
Funniest retrieve - when she was still very young, i shot a pair of mallards and they fell in a line. she picked up the first and without slowing down flung it over her head back towards me and ran and got the second bird. It was like she was trying to throw it to me in her excitement.
She once stood between me and a charging grizzly, wagging her tail at her new friend making all this ruckus running towards us. It stopped at 20 yards and barked, she barked back and it ran off. Never stopped wagging her tail.
The nicest grumpy old dog. She had a very fun and full life and I think I’m ready for the next one. She’ll have big shoes to fill.

 

[R.K.]

Anyone got leads on smaller labs? I’d love for my next lab to be under 60lbs.

Roxy, my first dog, recently passed. She was the best girl. 12 great years. Hundreds upon hundreds of retrieves - ducks, geese, grouse, pheasants, quail, Huns, and dove. Best retrieve she ever made was on a beautiful drake wigeon that she watched sail close to a 1/2 mile. Trudging through feet of snow she was gone for probably 15 minutes but went on a line to it and straight back right to me.
Funniest retrieve - when she was still very young, i shot a pair of mallards and they fell in a line. she picked up the first and without slowing down flung it over her head back towards me and ran and got the second bird. It was like she was trying to throw it to me in her excitement.
She once stood between me and a charging grizzly, wagging her tail at her new friend making all this ruckus running towards us. It stopped at 20 yards and barked, she barked back and it ran off. Never stopped wagging her tail.
The nicest grumpy old dog. She had a very fun and full life and I think I’m ready for the next one. She’ll have big shoes to fill.
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Sad to say I don’t have a line on that kind of lab. Wish I did, but I’m happy with the pup I got.

And do I spy a cardigan corgi pup in there?

 

[PRO MO]

Sad to say I don’t have a line on that kind of lab. Wish I did, but I’m happy with the pup I got.

And do I spy a cardigan corgi pup in there?

that was our pembroke corgi, goose - he was a bundle of health issues. He only made it about two years before having heart failure. we now have another little one, Kit. He's awesome, but he's not much of a retreiver. He's pretty much a cat.

 

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Anyone got leads on smaller labs? I’d love for my next lab to be under 60lbs.

Roxy, my first dog, recently passed. She was the best girl. 12 great years. Hundreds upon hundreds of retrieves - ducks, geese, grouse, pheasants, quail, Huns, and dove. Best retrieve she ever made was on a beautiful drake wigeon that she watched sail close to a 1/2 mile. Trudging through feet of snow she was gone for probably 15 minutes but went on a line to it and straight back right to me.
Funniest retrieve - when she was still very young, i shot a pair of mallards and they fell in a line. she picked up the first and without slowing down flung it over her head back towards me and ran and got the second bird. It was like she was trying to throw it to me in her excitement.
She once stood between me and a charging grizzly, wagging her tail at her new friend making all this ruckus running towards us. It stopped at 20 yards and barked, she barked back and it ran off. Never stopped wagging her tail.
The nicest grumpy old dog. She had a very fun and full life and I think I’m ready for the next one. She’ll have big shoes to fill.
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Look at bearoint kennels in colorado. They are pointing labs and most females are around 55 lbs.

 

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Look at bearoint kennels in colorado. They are pointing labs and most females are around 55 lbs.

bear point kennels or black forest kennelsm--same kennel

 

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[MTGunner]

I too love labs. Have owned five over a long period of time. Have owned two
Chesapeake Bay retrievers also. Currently we have an eleven year old female and an eight month old terrorist/unhinged, wild bitch. Training my labs has been fun over many years. BUT, my eight month old bitch has been really stressful. It’s always one step forward, three steps back. She chews everything. I mean EVERYTHING! She eats everything, deer crap, fur cones, pine cones, turkey crap, her blankets, toys, door trim, mops, brooms, etc, etc. She has been treated very well like a family member. Fed nothing but top quality food. Health needs always attended to. Has been given freedom to run and we have done everything to bond. She has been trained with patients and compassion. She has never been struck, kicked or handled roughly. Yesterday she scratched, clawed, chewed a hole in the vinyl floor in our laundry room. My wife is livid. She wants this bitch GONE! Seems this female lab never fails to fail. I have never kenneled any dog outside. All of our pets are family members. But this bitch is near time to be returned to the breeder. She was an expensive purchase from a highly recommended breeder. Now, I am attempting to start anew with her training. Basic training. One can only pray this will help. MTG

 

[MNElkNut]

We kept one of the litter we had in March. 3.5 months now. so far so good. still a puppy and doing puppy things, but went nuts over a pheasant wing I had in the freezer. commands are coming along really good...unless the neighbor dog is out. then I might as well say "watermelon" instead of "come"! But in time that will iron itself out.

 

[R.K.]

When it’s good, it’s good. She’s 5 months now, listens decently enough, doesn’t chew the furniture, and loves to retrieve. Rides really well in the car.

But lately, she seems to have picked up a habit of peeing on the carpet when she throws a tantrum. Today- it was me not throwing a toy fast enough.

She’s lucky she’s cute.

 

[MNElkNut]

RK, that could almost be a picture of my pup! Some nice progress yesterday. She figured out "kennel up". i say it and she goes right in.

 

[Hyhunter]

My Lab at 4 years old is 56 pounds, waited for smaller parents bred at High Caliber Labs in south dakota. Hes not a runt. Great dog and great genetics

 

[PRO MO]

New puppy, now almost 4 mo old. She is a terrorist. Only things she loves to do is play with our corgi, and chew things up. Zoomies for literally hours until she crashes out. She retrieves a little bit, not as into it yet as I’d like, but it will come with time. She does well with the basic commands. I forgot how hard lab puppies are.
Biggest surprises, she went barreling into the pond at nine weeks and started swimming, and is a natural in the water. My last lab didn’t swim until she was about 5 months…. Secondly, my wife, the dog lover, is not a huge fan of her. She’s not cuddly and affectionate enough for her, and chews up anything that gets left within reach (my wife has a tendency to forget to put things away). And then when my wife deep cleans the house, murph is always right behind making it a disaster just the way she prefers it.