@ana Yes.. black labs tend to be more protective, a bit more aloof. Yellow labs are quietly good natured and more serious than chocolates...chocolates tend to be the "clowns" longer in my experience. just jolly sweet squishy Peter Pan babies. My yellow lab Hobo lived to be 16.5 and was the smartest most loyal baby. It was such an important part of our family and saved my sons life from getting out in the road and getting hit by the school bus and then all of our lives from the house catching on fire from a log that had rolled out of the fire place on to the carpet in the night... my son's best friend...they grew up together. I rescued him from a shotgun blast that had gone septic...he returned the favor ten-fold. He was such a wonderful lab that I could never have another one...because they would not be him. He was a once in a lifetime kind of guy.
I have a mini Sheepadoodle who is 44 pounds. He LOVES dish towels, paper products, pencils and pens. When my children were younger there were a few days we was pooping bright rainbow colors. I was so confused. It took me awhile to realize he was eating crayons my kids had left out haha. He loves to chew socks, but fortunately he doesn't consume them. Just steals them and chews destroys them.
My vet said he has removed socks from one particular lab 4 different times.
@journeywithme2 @deetoo He eats so fast. So, so fast. We still had a ton of the girls birthday cake a week after their birthday this year (two cakes for the twins but no big party) and I went outside to take a call (it was a nice warm March day) and came back in an hour later and he had eaten the whole thing. It was Chocolate so we had an unplanned visit to the vet afterwards. Granted, I was outside for an hour but generally he sees it and he eats it before any of us realize what's happening. It was the funniest call (because they took him in and I had to wait in the car) I ever got.
"So, we got him to throw up. Out came an incredibly impressive amount of chocolate cake - we're not sure how big his stomach is but more there was more cake than we thought possible, something very green - we're not sure what that was (it was green rice krispy treats - the base of the cake) a bunch of tinfoil and some other stuff we're better off not discussing. He should be fine but watch him."
And out he came with the goofy Oliver grin.
The Kleenex thing just boggles my mind. We're drippy humans allergic to most of the stuff that makes going outside worth it so why he finds those delicious and "in need of eating" I'll never know.
Our next dog will be a Golden-Doodle. @Iridium - you didn't ask me but I'll weigh in - yes to Golden Retrievers being a little less neurotic - though I wouldn't necessarily say mature :-)
Dogs are gods way of reminding us to not take everything so damn seriously.
@dannyboy ❤️ I always enjoyed this one: https://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/jokes/general/a/and-god-created-dog-and-cat.aspx
Tonight is veggie night.
Spaghetti Squash baked with pasta sauce, garbanzo beans and cheese.
@lovendures I was bad. We had junk food night! I boiled some hotdogs and cut them in to 1 inch pieces - mixed up some cornmeal batter and poured about a TBSP in to each cup of a mini muffin pan and then stuck the hot dog pice in the middle of the batter. Baked 375 for 12 minutes. Tasted like corndogs from the fair. Ate with baked beans and cheese and pickle chips.
Even when you have junk food you do it with fresh cornbread batter What a cleaver idea with the muffin tins!
Friday night lazy. Pizza, soda, ice cream and leftover cake.
Labradors are the goldfish of the dog world. Eat anything and as much of it as possible.
Our big guy we lost last year ate an entire Halloween pumpkin's worth of candy one year. Also an entire box of granola bars once. ?
I am partial to black Labbies; have always owned them. Never had a yellow or chocolate one. The black are the sleekest and most attractive, imo, although the yellows are precious as puppies. I love the sleek shine on the chocolates coats. All Labradors rock.
If we ever get another dog, it will be a Golden Retriever or a Collie, if we can find one in the shelter.
@polarberry Something similar for us tonight but here its Saturday night. I guess I must be from the future ?