neurotic choclate labs

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by evil16v, Feb 6, 2003.

  1. evil16v

    evil16v Midwest Buick Mafia

    Anybody on the board have a labrador under 2 yrs old? are they all a handfull? he 's a turd but we love him.:Dou:
     

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  2. Oh, labs are a handful, alright... but I'll never have any other breed. They have so much personality, they really become members of the family. We lost our 8yr old to cancer last fall, and now have a 5 month old, that we got at 7 weeks. The key to combating excess energy in a lab (neuroticism) is plenty of excercise. I mean running! Take him/her out to an open field with a couple tennis balls. Or a frisbee. Or just your own legs, if you can handle the excercise. I even used to take our 1st, Dante, on bike rides with a std 8' leather leash, once we had him trained to stay next to our LEFT side while on walks. Believe me, that will burn off the excess energy. Just be sure to carry a water bottle with you. For the dog... Here's my puppy, Jake:
     

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  3. And my first, Dante:
     

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  4. Mike Atwood

    Mike Atwood The Green Machine

    Our 7 month old Sheperd-Lab mix is in to EVERYTHING! The only upside is that she quit chewing on everything and now just drags everything around the house while we are gone.
     

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  5. Greg B

    Greg B Well-Known Member

    Here's Cassie, a 10-month old lab we are fostering for Lab Rescue. She's got hip displasia in both hips and needs surgery. If we adopt her we will pay the difference for the hip replacement for the worse of the two hips and see how she does. Lab Rescue will pay $750 per hip - the cost of surgery to remove the ball part of the ball and socket joint - severely reducing her mobility. We will have to pony up $2,250 for each hip (as necessary). We are really torn - she's a great girl and loves riding in the car with me. My daughter adores her.

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  6. Mike, you actually let a 7 month old pup roam free around the house with no one home? We made that mistake with our first, Dante. At about 6 months we decided he was trustworthy, and allowed him to roam free inside while we were at work. All was fine for about 3 months, then suddenly he felt the need to chew on everything BUT his chew toys! That resulted in about 6 more months of being crated during the day, before we tried the freedom thing again. (we took turns coming home at noon to take him outside for a while). After that he was a perfect gentleman in the house when we were gone, for 7 years. Our 5 month old Lab has a long way to go before he's "safe" from destroying the house while we are gone! But he is learning...
     
  7. Mike Atwood

    Mike Atwood The Green Machine

    My wife comes home around noon to let her out, but she is pretty well behaved now. Usually just getting into the bathroom litter container. I don't know why, but she has a TP fetish! She also likes the wife's new leather belts..... 2 of them this week. She has not poo'ed on the carpet yet, so I think the worst is passed. We had her penned for the first 3 weeks we had her during the day. She is very smart!

    Mike
     
  8. 73Electra 225

    73Electra 225 Well-Known Member

    Well, my aunt and uncle have a 6 year old Golden Lab that we all believe has a minor mental disorder. You can not leave food out, period. He will eat it. If hold food in your hand and put down to his level by mistake, he will eat it. If you leave a bit of food, or maybe even a ziplock bag that once had food in it, in your zipped up gym bag, he will tear the bag to get to the food or wrapper. When they first got him, he would drag my little cousin or her friend across the front lawn. Here's a short list of things this dog has eatten:

    Socks
    Underwear
    Paper Plates
    Butter wrappers
    Browny Mix
    An entire lot of easter chocolate. We're talking about 2-3 pounds of it.
    Various stuffed animals
    And just recently
    A deer carcass
    Garbage left outside by a neighbor

    He also chases any car that goes up and down the road.
    When excited, he can jump in place like no other animal I've seen. Literally from a standstill, he will jump 3'-4' in air repeatedly.

    It's amazing that he is still alive.
     
  9. Chris Cornett

    Chris Cornett Well-Known Member

    My brother has a chocolate lab and she is great. Bailey has spent many nights with us in the garage while doing some 4a.m. wrenchin. She weighs over 100 lbs. but thinks she can sit in your lap. I will get him to post a pic.
     
  10. Chris Cornett

    Chris Cornett Well-Known Member

    Here is a pic of my Doberman Pincher. Rex is about 4 months old.
     

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  11. Claus Moeller

    Claus Moeller White trash...

    Does REX have a hard on -or is it just a pencil lying between his legs??:TU:

    Seriously, he looks like a charmer..
     
  12. jeff bullock

    jeff bullock Dare to be different !!!

    The old "Eat the blinds so I can see out the window trick".Man my white lab has that one down to a science and still performs it if we don't leave the blinds up so he can look out the windows while we're gone.He just turned 9 yrs old and still acts like a youngin'.:laugh:
     
  13. Topless64-455

    Topless64-455 Well-Known Member

    This is Mocha our 80lb 3 1/2 year old lab. We got her from an adopt a pet as a 8 week old puppy. She has a $200 a month prescription bill due to a problem with her pancreas(sp) but well worth it. She has that amazing jumping ability. When I come home she tries to lick my face for the first 20 minutes. In the summer, she perfers diving of the dock at full speed to retrive anything.

    Greg, I think you should adopt and give it the home it needs. When I was in Ocean City, MD 3 years ago a Heating and Air company had a message on there sign about a lab Marley that needed hip surgery. They were looking for donations. I stopped in and visisted Marley and left 40 dollars toward the surgery. I think we could get enough donations from the buick and dog lovers on the board to help.

    If you keep the dog I will start by giving you 40 dollars toward the surgery.

    Does anybody know how to reduce the size of my picture so I can psot it.
     
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  14. Ed, you would need some type of photo-editing software on your computer. You can email it to me at home, at gramlow@cableone.net , and I can reduce it and post it for you. Or there are some "free" editing programs you can download on the internet and install on your computer. A couple are LviewPro and Irfanview. A search should turn up their websites, and you download and install, and start playing around. I use Paint Shop Pro at home, but that isn't free... :rolleyes: Well, actually it was, because my wife's employer paid for it. :Brow:

    I'm also willing to contribute some $ to the hip surgery if you decide to go ahead with it. Keep us updated here.
     
  15. Topless64-455

    Topless64-455 Well-Known Member

    I guess I have a soft spot for the dog since I have had both hips replaced and I am only 38 years old. My standard response to people that comment "your to young" is yeah lucky I'm not a dog.

    Dave I have sent the pictures to Greg to post. I also sent him a picture of the pitbull lab cross that I adopted. They found her and her sister abandon at six weeks in Feb. 2 years ago. Remember Feb here is below 0
     
  16. 462CID

    462CID Buick newbie since '89

    I knew a guy who was a former commercial fisherman who need hips at 27. The guy was in some serious pain and walked like a 90 year old. I guess it was from pulling up nets and swaying side to side all the time.

    All I can say about this is it sucks


    On the dog front-

    I am going to assume most of you know this, but the dog thinks it's living with other dogs, and if there's no Alpha wolf (You) to show it how the rules work, it will make up it's own rules- and be the head of the household (pack). The rules have to apply always, and then one day, the dog will "get it". Example: my dog used to jump up on people- to lick their face. Well, we knew it was useless to find it "cute" at home, and then forbid the dog to do that anywhere else. So- no more jumping. If she started to do it, we'd correct her, then reward her. Eventually, all it ook was a "down!" and she wouldn't even THINK of jumping if she 'got the look' so to speak. Eventually we didn't have to reward her- she just stopped doing it. But you always have to reward or punish based on the same rules, or the dog won't learn. I am not confusing "punish" with "abuse", by the way.

    I miss my dog now. Tanqueray was a 16 year old English setter/Lab mix. I had her from when she was 6 months old. One day she just couldn't stand up anymore:ball: Somehow this dog would get up on the countertops and go through the cabinets if she decided we were out too long and it was dinner time- then run and hide under the table when we came home, like it had just occurred to her that it was wrong. :laugh:
     
  17. 69GS400s

    69GS400s ...my own amusement ride!

    WOWOW Ed.....talk about similarities !!!

    This is Mocha, our 87 pound, 3 1/2 yr old Chocolate Lab ( ALL MUSCLE) that we adopted from the shelter 2 years ago when she was 1 yr old.

    Hyper ???? HAHAHAHA !!!!! :Dou: :Dou: I've heard she may calm down some......when she's 12 or so !!!!

    Larry (LARRYS70GS) likes to come over on the weekend, put her into HyerSonic Warp7 mode......and LEAVE !!! :spank: Friends:rolleyes:

    Every once in a while you grab a magic photo.....this is one of mine. Its at sunrise in the Mountains, on a lake, and that is lake mist you see all around the picture. Mocha woke me up a 5:30a because she wanted to see the Sunrise. I thanked her....because it was worth it !!

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  18. 68special

    68special Well-Known Member

    WOW...

    Alan, what a cool photo...

    we have a 6 month old choc lab, and she NEVER stops...she's going to puppy training classes now, she's learned sit... 'course, she'll only sit for about 2 seconds before all her energy boils over... :rolleyes:

    our homework this week is loose leash walking...the few times we've had her on a leash, she runs like it wasn't there...neck snapping time...

    she's the perfect compliment to our 75-lb pit bull, who's the biggest baby in the world, wants only to sit on our laps all the time and be petted...and to get away from the puppy, who loves to terrorize anything that moves... :grin:

    scott
     
  19. Topless64-455

    Topless64-455 Well-Known Member

    she's the perfect compliment to our 75-lb pit bull, who's the biggest baby in the world, wants only to sit on our laps all the time and be petted...and to get away from the puppy, who loves to terrorize anything that moves...

    This is Mocha, our 87 pound Chocolate Lab ( ALL MUSCLE) that we adopted from the shelter 2 years ago when she was 1 yr old.

    Al and Scott

    Sounds like you have great dogs. That is a great picture.

    I have 1 of each. The pitbull/ cross runs Mocha the lab crazy. Mocha is 3 1/2 and would love to just sit in the house and play outstide. (It will happen at about 2 1/2 yrs) she loves the snow. The pitbull on the otherhand (will be 2 next week) it always on watch. That og will never slow down. I read it in a book they will have that energy level forever. The picture of her is her looking out the window waiting to scare the mailman. The UPS guy knocks on the door and leaves before I can put her in the kennel. I asked him one day and he said he leaves just in case her would get out. I let him know that its all an act. If you ran at her she would turn and run.

    Here are the pictures Greg reduced for me. Thanks Greg
    Well it still is to big. I will try without the text.
     
  20. Greg B

    Greg B Well-Known Member

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