@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 ?
lol
What do y'all eat on pizza down under? Nothing weird and sacrilegious like pineapple or canadian bacon, I hope. ?
I am a boring traditionalist when it comes to Italian frisbees. Tons of pepperoni and black olives. Cheese stuffed crust is good. Parm and a shake of oregano on top.
I can imagine!
I think that's another reason why I don't have chickens. I'd probably start thinking of them as pets and then wouldn't even be able to take their eggs.
DannyBoy,
That picture of your dog is cracking me up. When you want to sit there, does he refuse to move and look at you like, "Yeah, I'm comfortable. Go sit somewhere else."
Our dog we lost last year; he and I had a constant wintertime battle for the fireplace. When I wanted to stand in front of it, he'd be sprawled out and I'd tell him to move, and he'd just stare at me like, "Make me." I'd have to get down on the floor and slide him out of the way, and as soon as I left he'd go right back and the process would start all over again.
I hope he has his own fireplace up there after a long day of chasing rabbits.
@polarberry Hi, I am afraid you can get an Hawaiian pizza with Cheese, tomato, ham and pineapple in Aus. No Canadian bacon as far as I know but definitely our own.
Australians tend to like lots of toppings as opposed to the more traditional Italian style. Though you can get all styles, lots of little pizza/pasta restaurant type places as well as the Chain places like Dominos.
Its rugby tonight Australia playing South Africa and the New Zealand All Blacks playing Argentina so its pizza so my husband doesn't have to wash up, also beats me having to cook. So I get to go and pick it up. I am going to try a new place and think we will get their Supreme (Cheese, tomato, ham, cabanossi, pepperoni, mushrooms, capsicum, onion, pineapple & olives.) think I might try the Marinara (Cheese, tomato sauce, chunks of fresh fish, Prawns, mussels, calamari, wine & garlic. And of course a couple of gelatos, may as well make it worthwhile. Plus a glass of wine.
So I guess we fit the bill of weird and sacrilegious but have had the real thing in Italy in an Italian Castle near Venice no less.
Kind Regards
@lovendures there were a few leftovers. The kids already claimed them for work lunches today.?
@dannyboy I used to have a Rottweiler-German Shepherd mix (3/4 Rott) . While we were at work she would help herself to leftovers in the refrigerator She put her nose against the fridge door seal and worked it until she got it open. Then she'd grab a Tupperware and take it to the nice cozy living room rug where she'd pull off the lid with her teeth, enjoy the contents, then go back to the fridge for another. We'd come home to a wide-open refrigerator and empty tooth-marked plastic containers all over the living room floor. At least the food was harmless. I had to get a childproof lock for the refrigerator door.
@polarberry Thought you might be entertained by this pizza menu from the other "Down Under" country. This is my NZ relatives' favorite pizza joint, "Hell Pizza":
https://online.hellpizza.com/menu/pizza (Look at the rest of the site too, for max entertainment)
Scarecrow Peanut Butter Cookie