On 06/03/2016 11:21, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
> wrote:
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>> On 05/03/2016 07:33, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
>>> wrote:
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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!
>>>
>>> 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!
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> She knows who wears the fur in the household.
>
:-)
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