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>On 05/03/2016 07:33, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> My cat gets me out of the house to go get her treats. She stays home
>> nad keeps the chair warm. Or more likely, just keeps the chair...
>>
>
>Superb!
She knows who wears the fur in the household.
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