[AnAmericanMother]

That's my new girl, Katy.

I call her my "semi-rescue". She's quite well bred, she wasn't in any danger and certainly wasn't being mistreated, but the rest of her littermates had sold except for one other girl, and at 9 months old she was just vegetating in the dog yard getting dog food and an occasional tennis ball, but no training (not even sit!) The owner of the sire called me and wanted me to take a look at them. I originally wanted to look at the other yellow girl, who is smaller, but she was a real ditz (when you threw a bumper for her she ran off with it).

This little girl figured out "heel" and "sit" almost instantly, and she retrieves like a machine. She brought the bumper back and laid it respectfully on my feet. 10 days after I took her home I put her in a hunt test just for grins and she nailed the test both days.

Her second hunt test is this Saturday, if she passes she gets her Started title in HRC.

Here she is with her daddy, Woody, who's working on his HRCH title.

Woody is without a doubt the best-natured Lab on the planet. He rides in the back of the pickup truck, and he has a Fan Club wherever he goes. He has certainly given Katy his temperament.

[Titan Magroyne]

Ah. So you gave her a J-O-B! Very good.

My first lab, likely mixed mixed from something smaller, was the best natured lil thing. Very empathetic. I never understood tho why she developed resentment toward other dogs getting into her face (except for her ‘sissy’). She would have been a great one for nursing home & child ward visits. I just never took the time.

The current lab is a total switch. A gallumping oaf of a dog, only bright at sneaking people food or kitty crunchies from the litter box. I wish I had pics of what she did to the cornbread cakes (plural) left on a friend’s counter to cool. No sense of shame. As another FReeper termed it recently, she’s a Laborador Deceiver!