>On 03/03/2016 17:06, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/03/2016 13:20, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 03/03/2016 11:24, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These things are so darned cute, you just want to go give 'em a
>>>>>> scratch behind the ears.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> He heard that, and said "yes, please".
>>>>>
>>>>> ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is that your lab? Handsome boy.
>>>>
>>>> At the moment, my vanilla lab is sleeping on my left foot and my chocolate is sleeping on my right foot. Best
>>>> dogs I have ever been owned by.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Charles,
>>>
>>> Yes, he's a recent acquisition - eleven years old, would you believe.
>>> He'd been a working guide dog for a blind person for nine years and was
>>> being retired on age grounds. In fact he had worked longer than is usual.
>>>
>>> We lost our previous dog, a German Shepherd - also a retired guide dog -
>>> just before Christmas and a very large gap in the home needed filling.
>>> This new boy retired on a Tuesday night and we met up with him the next
>>> day and has been with us for just over a month now.
>>>
>>> We've supported the UK Charity Guide Dogs for the Blind for over thirty
>>> years, the first fifteen having been spent bringing up puppies for the
>>> first year of their life, from which they underwent a further year's
>>> "college" training before being teamed up with a person. Subsequently we
>>> took on reject and retired dogs.
>>>
>>> Our first ever pup, a yellow lab (as they're known here), failed his
>>> exams and came back to us. He was a great mentor for the puppies in
>>> training with us - including at one time, in the best of Labrador
>>> traditions, showing a puppy how to get plums off the plum tree!
>>>
>>> You can't beat a Labrador, always our first love in dogs. As you say
>>> "the best dogs to be owned by"!
>>>
>>
>> Funny, we have avocado trees and my labs have learned how to climb onto the lower branches and swipe the ripe
>> ones.
>>
>> They call them yellow labs here too, but some, like my Murphy, are the color of vanilla ice cream, so calling
>> him yellow isn't very accurate.
>>
>> Attached is a picture of my boys.
>>
>
>Thank you Charles, they are magnificent. Here's some pictures of
>Fraser's predecessors - both of Guide Dog stock.
>
>Jemma the Labrador departed about 18 months ago, and Rufus the Shepherd
>just before Christmas from very sudden cancer of the liver! Such is life.
>
>On the subject in hand - we've never had a bulldog!
>
Your monsters were all quite handsome.
Hard to think of anything in life that has generated greater serenity than those animals which have chosen to
adopt me.
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