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On 04/03/2016 16:17, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
Agreed, and they get you out of the house, whatever the weather is doing!
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