Meet Paulie my black lab puppy

[44deerslayer]

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[Moleman-]

Cute puppy, reminds us of our 7 year old black lab back when he was a pup.

[Murphy]

He's a dandy!

Best friend of mine was gifted a black lab pup 8 or 9 years back. "Buddy" and I were pals from the start. He grew to weight about 120 Lbs or so...huge. Not fat, but just big. He's the only dog that has knocked me down playing in decades. My friend lives in a very rural part of the county and one day Buddy took off prowling and never made it back, sigh. I sure miss him.

Murphy

[lightman]

Hi Paulie! You're a cute little guy!

[farmerjim]

We have had 2 black labs. Smart friendly dogs that are easy to train.

[therealhitman]

A puppy thread eh? Nice! Here's our new girl Daisy the Chocolate Lab. I like to say she is the 'Gal Gadot of Chocolate Labs' (so as not to hurt our Black Lab's feelings of course).

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[toallmy]

Love it , more pictures please !

[Remiel]

This is Duke, our 5 month old black and tan/blue tick hound mixhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170611/421cea8b3dde107c3de6e783ae38babc.jpg

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[Boaz]

Good lookin dogs all ! Man needs a dog .

[Boaz]

A great regret for me is that I have not kept enough dogs ..although I have had many . GOD blessed us with.....dogs !

[HATCH]

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Yellow is 5 years old
Black is 6 months old

The black one (samson) is getting on my last nerve. He has already removed all the plastic diverter pipes off of the downspouts for the gutters.

[Boaz]

LOL , he thought they needed to be removed !!

[XDROB]

Meet Logan. Purebred Belgian Malinois
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[HATCH]

LOL , he thought they needed to be removed !!
yeah but one was hooked up to my french drain so I have to dig up the yard to find where it was hooked up and fix it.

[dragon813gt]

This was Anakin as a puppy.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa39/dragon813gt/Anakin/3084f9a3.jpg (http://s198.photobucket.com/user/dragon813gt/media/Anakin/3084f9a3.jpg.html)

He's now six and a royal pain. But in a good way. He's great w/ the kids, 3yo and 2 months old. But he's always under foot. This was from a year or two ago but he still looks the same.
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This explains it all.
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[xs11jack]

Dragon, is that his "Are we going to the Vet?" look???
Ole Jack

[OS OK]

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"Are you gonna gimme a bite of that or not!"

[dragon813gt]

Dragon, is that his "Are we going to the Vet?" look???
Ole Jack

No, that was "stop taking pictures and drive the truck so we can go for a run in the woods" :laugh:

[snuffy]

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"Are you gonna gimme a bite of that or not!"[/QUOTE]

Meet Louie;

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Yeah, Louie and all my other dogs get at least one chunk of whatever I'm eating, often,(well most times,) MORE.

Louie was 9 weeks old in those pics, he's 13 W.O. now. And 16 pounds heavier. Oh, he's a golden retriever---of course! Arrow had to be put down last November, just made it to 12 YO.

You THINK you have the house puppy proof until you get the puppy. He's a bundle of laughs, smart and already a faithful, loyal pup. At 71 myself, he's making me feel young again, should help me live longer.

He ended the mourning and hurt of losing a long time best friend. Best medicine ever. Not that I'll ever forget Arrow, but he's taken his place in great memories.

One thing; take lots of pictures of your dogs. I regret not having enough pics of Arrow, not gonna happen with Louie!:)

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[375supermag]

"Are you gonna gimme a bite of that or not!"

Meet Louie;

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Yeah, Louie and all my other dogs get at least one chunk of whatever I'm eating, often,(well most times,) MORE.

Louie was 9 weeks old in those pics, he's 13 W.O. now. And 16 pounds heavier. Oh, he's a golden retriever---of course! Arrow had to be put down last November, just made it to 12 YO.

You THINK you have the house puppy proof until you get the puppy. He's a bundle of laughs, smart and already a faithful, loyal pup. At 71 myself, he's making me feel young again, should help me live longer.

He ended the mourning and hurt of losing a long time best friend. Best medicine ever. Not that I'll ever forget Arrow, but he's taken his place in great memories.

One thing; take lots of pictures of your dogs. I regret not having enough pics of Arrow, not gonna happen with Louie!:)

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Hi...
I understand your situation.
Two years ago, we lost our Black Lab, named Wesson at 14-1/2 years of age. His litter mate, another Black Lab named Smith passed away about 3 years earlier at 11 years of age.

Our home seemed so empty.

Two weeks after wesson passed, we adopted two male Labrador Retriever littermates, a yellow named Thor and a black named Loki. They have moved in and taken over the entire estate, at least the parts they haven't chewed up and swallowed. They are the most energetic, non-stop forces of nature you have ever seen. After two years, they are just now starting to transition into adult dogs and calm down. Still very playful but learning that there is a time and a place for rough housing and running and such and that place is outside.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Lanty Hanlon, our Irish terrier, was in a state of ecstasy when he met a puppy just like Paulie yesterday, on his first day out after his injections took effect. It is a slightly tricky time with black labs, since last week Lanty was attacked, on the lead and a yard inside the park gate, by an idiot woman's large one, double his weight. She was very good with us, offering her address in case of unseen injuries. But he was a recent rescue dog she didn't know how to rescue. She used a rope choker, which is fine, but as a result the dog had no collar I could have grabbed, and he heard never a hard word from her.



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Not that it bothered Lanty, who was recognised as the laid-back one of the litter, seldom the boldest but always the last to quit, when he got out tippex mark on his stomach as a three-week-old brown slug. He just wriggled free and explained in earsplitting fashion that he wasn't going to retreat, and wasn't going to bite unless he had to. He is the only dog we've owned who can inflict pain if he accidentally commits a negligent discharge close to the eardrum He prefers persuading everything from great danes to chihuahuas the size of his head to play with him. I've seen him do it with pit bulls that had a reputation locally. But I'm afraid he thought that lab made his day.

The trouble is that although unchanged with everybody else, he has chased and growled at a couple of totally inoffensive black labradors since. It was nothing like the incident, being just the way he plays with noisy dogs. But those weren't. He should come right after meeting one or two more socially.

[robg]

World would be a sad place without dogs.good looking pup.

[OS OK]

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He doesn't miss a thing...

[Ballistics in Scotland]

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He doesn't miss a thing...

They'll never believe you about needing to reach the pedals.

[Hickok]

My friend Curly the Yorkie, guarding my Strat. He would'nt stay still long enough for a pic!197459

[DCP]

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

[Moonie]

Our Newfoundland puppy Puddles.
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And doing what Newfoundlands do, especially when named Puddles.
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4 months old tomorrow, and almost 50lbs already.

[Lloyd Smale]

got to love a lab pup. Heck any pup! Weve got a chocolate that's about 7 months now. Hes a handful compared to the last lab we had. Your little girl is a cuttie!

[RedJackson]

Hide your hunting boots !

[Remiel]

Today Duke thinks he is a lap doghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170613/1319fba3647598ff910f26cb06e31b6b.jpg

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[rancher1913]

we have a saint bernard that watches the house and a border collie/redhealer that is about 6 months old , muttley is his name, that helps with the cows. we have a few rattle snakes at the north pasture were he loves to chase rabbits so we took him to a snake avoidance class last week, they use devenomed snakes to teach the dogs to keep away, hope it works because at his size and the time it would take to get to the vet, one bite would be fatal

[Ballistics in Scotland]

My friend Curly the Yorkie, guarding my Strat. He would'nt stay still long enough for a pic!197459

"Me, small? Why wasn't I told?"

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Our Newfoundland puppy Puddles.
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And doing what Newfoundlands do, especially when named Puddles

4 months old tomorrow, and almost 50lbs already.

A friend had a Newfoundland named Hussar after his army regiment. But at a conservatively estimated 160lb., which looked more because of the hair, he was more like a heavy dragoon. My mother had a collie-whippet cross weighing 38lb., the same as young Lanty, who despite the cruise missile blood learned to do all the collie things. She was able to knock Hussar off one pair of legs at a time, if she lured him into an unwisely tight high-speed turn first. But he worked out the counter faster than she worked out how to do it. She used to nip strange male Rottweilers affectionately on the neck, and they loved her for it. I'm glad she never tried it with a female, though. No wonder they're called bitches.

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Lanty thinks swimming is unnatural and not turning off the rain for him is disobliging, although he never admitted minding cold, even when he was tiny. I've seen kids lure him into the sea a third of the way up his fuselage, but that was the height of summer. Heaven knows how he defies the laws of physics, but he can levitate onto your lap, as lightly as a cat. He does it to watch TV.

This is my old collie, bought for £1.50 in a Glasgow petshop in 1968, when our old golden labrador died, and the cairn terrier needed company in a hurry. She was a confirmed pacifist who, to the cairn's horror wouldn't kill rabbits just for not wanting to play. That would be violence. People thought she was telepathically controlled, but she used to hesitate deliberately for a whole second when I gave her hand signals, fifty yards off, which a mere human could have seen. For that was like calling her an animal. A shepherd once told me "She's no' just the ordinary look, mind, but I could name a dozen working dogs less able. Laddie, it's pure sin for a collie like that tae be raised an amateur."

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[Ballistics in Scotland]

I just took Lanty for a walk and met my neighbour with his three shi tzus. They chase and harass Lanty shamefully, sometimes barking at him on three sides from a foot away. But non-retaliation lessons are useful for him. One of them is so small even by shi tzu standards, and so lightly built, that he was told she should never be allowed to breed. But she is fast.

Last night in the old overgrown cemetery, he told me, she caught a rabbit by the leg. Maybe being rabbit size and colour was a help. The rabbit, maybe in response to some ancient instinct, froze, and she just licked his ears and nose, seeing off her more conventionally minded mother and brother with growls like a tiny circular saw, until he had recovered enough to hop off.

[XDROB]

Meet Logan. Purebred Belgian Malinois
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LOGAN is at his new home. Gonna let him sit with me until he gets too big.🤣https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170617/61d309b0fadc330a6b0bee6b60f2fb4f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170617/ee057adfbc2636ae37a9d03e641ff3cb.jpg

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[Love Life]

My dog licks windows...

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[OS OK]

<<<^^^ I think my Bubby would like your dog to come visit...we are trying to adopt him a little brother or sister Boxer right now.

[Love Life]

Boxers are my favorite. Great with kids and super fun. Elsa is a well built boxer girl at a solid 69 lbs of muscle and energy. I am very picky about the boxers I get. I don't like the skinny small ones. I like the heavy built ones.

[Lloyd Smale]

My last lab elmer was a 120lbs and still thought my lap was the place to be
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[Ballistics in Scotland]

You may have better strains of boxer in the US than in the UK. Here they have a startling range of hereditary illnesses, including a high rate of epilepsy, over 20% of puppies dying, and twice as many adults dying from cancer as from old age.

Nine years ago there was a BBC documentary attacking what has happened when the wrong people got hold of certain breeds. Some of it was quite heartrending. They all had breed standards which specified a healthy and active look, but they judged dogs winners that didn't have it. The first reaction was to turn on members who had ratted them out to the BBC, the second to promise reforms. A good deal has been done, but the jury is still out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_Dogs_Exposed

[XDROB]

Look what happened to the German Shepherd. #1 in country can't even stand on it's rear legs straight up .

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[Love Life]

You may have better strains of boxer in the US than in the UK. Here they have a startling range of hereditary illnesses, including a high rate of epilepsy, over 20% of puppies dying, and twice as many adults dying from cancer as from old age.

Nine years ago there was a BBC documentary attacking what has happened when the wrong people got hold of certain breeds. Some of it was quite heartrending. They all had breed standards which specified a healthy and active look, but they judged dogs winners that didn't have it. The first reaction was to turn on members who had ratted them out to the BBC, the second to promise reforms. A good deal has been done, but the jury is still out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_Dogs_Exposed

My last boxer died of cancer when she was 7 years old. Sure do miss her. The Boxer breeds here also have their issues like hips, eyes, cancer, etc. I stay away from boxers with to much white in them.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

As did my childhood labrador, at 8 I think, and a sample of one doesn't prove much. The last thing boxers need is the breed going extinct, or the gene pool becoming too limited to put anything right, because people are scared to take a chance on them.

It is pitiful what was done with German shepherds, principally in order to make them bigger and give that sloping backline. A lot has been done to put matters right, but these things are faster to get out of a breed than into it. On temperament they have done pretty well, despite their frequent use for unattended guarding. My wife was a small child in Berlin when somebody built a wall just a few hundred yards away. But when the wall came down, the border force dogs were rehomed with civilians, and mostly turned out very well. Some were just ordinary police dogs, and the ones that just ran up and down on wires hadn't learned much of anything, including aggression, so they just fell back on natural instinct, which is that boredom is bad and humans are interesting.

[XDROB]

The problem with any working class dog is that people get them because they like the look. And don't realize that they need to be kept busy and occupied more then other breeds. When they don't do that the dog becomes bored and then destructive
And then the dog is abused.
As I have said in another thread , when I was in my twenties the Doberman was the dog to hate. Small skull, brain get pinched off and becomes mean. BUT as the truth be told the dog comes out the way it was treated. 😒

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[Ballistics in Scotland]

BUT as the truth be told the dog comes out the way it was treated. ��



The trouble is, it can include treatment before it is born. It is certainly possible to have irreformably aggressive strains, if they are bred for the purpose, or for looks at any price. For sixteen years American pit bulls have been banned in the UK, ownable only by court approval and if neutered, tattooed, microchipped and muzzled. Of course there are American pit bull strains which are quite inoffensive, but I am sceptical of the idea that people imported more than a small trickle of that sort through quarantine. Why, when those pit bulls are usual indistinguishable from the common Staffordshire bull terrier - by appearance and by legitimate guarding behaviour, i.e. until the enemy quits? It was special fighting dogs that got imported. We owed those dog attacks, sometimes quite dreadful, to an unholy combination of prenatal and post-natal human brutes.

I have a perpetual image of our legislators saying "Visually indistinguishable? However was one to know?"

[Lloyd Smale]

yes there are more aggressive strains of dogs but a guy can sure take one of those strains and make it into a fine dog. Some breeds might be easier to make aggressive but I truly believe it can be trained out of any of them. I had a Rottweiler years ago. He went about a 130 lbs and was the gentlest dog I ever saw (well a tie anyway with my last lab) he wouldn't hurt a flea. Neighbor right now has a german sheppard that is about the same. My best friend claims the best and most gentle dog he ever had was is old Doberman. Daughter has two pit bulls that are about as mean as kittens too. Ive also seen very aggressive Labradors. Most case there dogs that are tied up outside and live in dog houses and are for the most part ignored. Or dogs that are actually encouraged to be aggressive. Ive had lots of dogs and many different breeds. To a dog they all craved love and if they got it they gave it back in spades. Tie me up, beat me occasionally and make me live out in the cold with nobody caring or giving me love and see how I treat you when you walk by.

[XDROB]

I do agree with that. When we went to breeder he was glad that the dog picked us and we picked him. He said that he (Logan) was one of the most calm of his litter mates. But yes some breeds have centuries of breeding behind them that needs to be taken into account when looking for a dog.
He said that he gets a lot of people who are sometimes looking for the biggest, baddest dog. He won't sell them a dog. We interviewed with him a couple of time. I'v always wanted a dog, my wife of 36 years had to be on board. Life took a couple of turns for me this last year and opened the door for Logan to come home with us. I realize this situation is not normal for most dog owners. I did a lot of research before I decided on this breed. I am very happy with my choice. 😁

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[Love Life]

I've had boxers my whole life. Had and bred them growing up, and will always have a boxer.

[MaryB]

I have always had labs, my first lab Misty picked me. Her litter mates all hid behind mom, Misty waddled over and peed on my foot to mark me as hers... she was the best dog I have ever had. Also super gentle, my nieces and nephews used to ride her(when very little, by 2 they knew that was to much weight for her back), pull her tail and ears and she just loved it.

Friends had dobermans, big babies that would lick you to death. Another friend had rottweilers that were the same, just big friendly babies who thought they were lap dogs. All were raised around lots of people coming and going, lots of love and attention from everyone...

[Lloyd Smale]

that's the secret. Love, attention and interaction with people when there young. I truly believe there no such thing as a bad dog. Just bad owners.
I have always had labs, my first lab Misty picked me. Her litter mates all hid behind mom, Misty waddled over and peed on my foot to mark me as hers... she was the best dog I have ever had. Also super gentle, my nieces and nephews used to ride her(when very little, by 2 they knew that was to much weight for her back), pull her tail and ears and she just loved it.

Friends had dobermans, big babies that would lick you to death. Another friend had rottweilers that were the same, just big friendly babies who thought they were lap dogs. All were raised around lots of people coming and going, lots of love and attention from everyone...

[Ballistics in Scotland]

yes there are more aggressive strains of dogs but a guy can sure take one of those strains and make it into a fine dog. Some breeds might be easier to make aggressive but I truly believe it can be trained out of any of them. I had a Rottweiler years ago. He went about a 130 lbs and was the gentlest dog I ever saw (well a tie anyway with my last lab) he wouldn't hurt a flea. Neighbor right now has a german sheppard that is about the same. My best friend claims the best and most gentle dog he ever had was is old Doberman. Daughter has two pit bulls that are about as mean as kittens too. Ive also seen very aggressive Labradors. Most case there dogs that are tied up outside and live in dog houses and are for the most part ignored. Or dogs that are actually encouraged to be aggressive. Ive had lots of dogs and many different breeds. To a dog they all craved love and if they got it they gave it back in spades. Tie me up, beat me occasionally and make me live out in the cold with nobody caring or giving me love and see how I treat you when you walk by.
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I think you'd be right about making some kind of fine dog - perhaps even an adult individual which has been not only bred as a fighting dog or ferocious guard, but owned by humans who deserve to be microchipped, tattooed, muzzled and neutered? But some British pit bull attacks have been within the family, and if truth has been told. completely without warning. A lot of people don't have enclosed land, and need a dog which may sometimes be poked and pestered by strange children, or subjected to boisterous uninvited play by strange dogs. I'd be very wary of those dogs, in those circumstances. It took a long, long time to rehabilitate the English bulldog into the gentle soul he is today.

I'm not surprised by what people say about rottweilers, though. For centuries they have been out of the breeding business, or perhaps out of this world, for a single instance of the behaviour that gets a Jack Russell kicked off and treated to some uncanonical language. The trouble is, the few bitten by rottweilers are likely to stay bitten. Surprisingly I heard, a few years back, that the most frequently biting dog in the UK was the golden retriever. Retrievers have only really existed since people learned to shoot flying, but in recent decades, while a fair proportion of labradors are still in employment that requires discipline, golden retrieves were bred for blonde good looks. The bite usually being relatively minor allowed the situation to worsen, but it's the wrong time to tell someone to count his blessings.

My mother's labrador, never had retriever training. But she would put in a protest at being left in the car by leaping twelve times over the front seat and positioning her half-dozen eggs in a row in the back. Our own used to run around the garden with kittens in her mouth. Even their mother realised it was just what labradors do, and the one we kept used to come begging for a ride when he was half-grown.


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This is Sandy, an Omani wild dog Australians will recognise as very like a dingo. She turned up in his garden as a juvenile, saying "Give us a job", just like young wolves did outside the cave long ago. The surprising thing is, she made a determined job of becoming a model house-dog in all respects. His Omani landlord was amazed, because although he could believe in a good dog, he thought you had to buy them from an expensive importer. She now lives in retirement with him in Spain. I'd have had no hesitation in adopting the Arabian ones who regarded me as their special friend.

We all have stories of the behaviour human-induced artificial instincts have put into dogs. But that can be bad as well as good. In some cases I would feel happier with dogs which had handled centuries of matchmaking on their own.

[vepr12dude]

Meet Logan. Purebred Belgian Malinois
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Hide everything! Leave nothing on the floor ha ha, wonderful dogs, ours was hell on wheels when he was a puppy

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Something very odd happened last night. Lanty Hanlon the Irish terrier loves TV, maybe because we have LED screens now, as few dogs did in the days of the scanning cathode ray tube. I don't think he distinguishes fighting from boisterous play, in humans or animals, as both are exciting. But bullying is something else, as he recognises and gets angry at it.

Last night there was a movie in which a dog was dead or unconscious, dappled with blood, and held in his master's arms. I believe the canine eye sees red as black, like old orthochromatic movie prints, so it would just be a spotty dog to him. It is a peculiarity of Irish terriers that they don't bark much, but have a wide vocabulary of other noises. Even Jack London says so, a hundred years ago. Lanty threw back his head and howled, just twice. I haven't heard a dog do it since I gave up playing the piano accordion at the age of twelve. Nobody knows all that is in a dog's mind.

[copdills]

Great Pics guys real nice

[XDROB]

Hide everything! Leave nothing on the floor ha ha, wonderful dogs, ours was hell on wheels when he was a puppy
I really laughed when I saw this. Because just the other day i caught him running across the kitchen with a (pair) of slippers clamped in his mouth.

We have a three tier shoe rack near door we come on. First two tiers are bare now and I'm sure in s few weeks we will be putting the rack somewhere else.

Also have full harness for him, didn't like standard collar pulling on his neck.
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[Lloyd Smale]

sure is a cute looking little guy.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

I really laughed when I saw this. Because just the other day i caught him running across the kitchen with a (pair) of slippers clamped in his mouth.


Both of the pair? That argues fine manipulative skills in one so young. I once reassembled something and found myself short of four 2mm. nuts, the size of split peas. I found them in a neat row on his favourite landing of the stairs, and I would give a lot to know if Lanty made one trip or four. But he was old enough to take his responsibilities seriously.

A harness is fine for some breeds, especially small, thin-necked ones. But I know someone who used them on two huskys, and it handed them the opportunity to pull like sledge-dogs all their lives.

[XDROB]

Don't want to take away from his skills, but they were near back door that we come in and out of a lot. They were together. I think he just happened to grap them just right.
On the harness, he should be around 60 lbs when full grown. I have never really been a fan of collars and when talking to my breeder and a bunch of trainers and dog people the consensus was get him a harness so there is no damage to his neck or throat. Especially when driving in the car. Just safer for the dog and you.
On the pullng part, I plan on getting him, me, and wife trained. I want to be able to walk with him leash free. He is a very intelligent breed. The breeder also trains. And I have witnessed a couple of his dogs and owners work their dogs. It was very impressive.

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[XDROB]

sure is a cute looking little guy.
Thanks, I'm so in love with his ears. Very expressive. When he hears something his head comes up, ears erect, when really concentrating the ears come together, tips just about touching.


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[Ballistics in Scotland]

I have never really been a fan of collars and when talking to my breeder and a bunch of trainers and dog people the consensus was get him a harness so there is no damage to his neck or throat. Especially when driving in the car. Just safer for the dog and you.


For the car, yes, certainly. In the UK it is compulsory to restrain the dog in some way, but the law is fulfilled by preventing interference with the driver or becoming a dangerous projectile in a crash, rather than protecting the dog. A lot of people do it with a wire partition, confining him to the rear seats or the trunk area of a hatchback. It is better than nothing from the dog's point of view, as it lessens the distance he can be hurled, and is better to hit than solid metal or glass. But Lanty Hanlon has a special car harness, with alternative attachments to attach to either the socket or the strap of the human seatbelt. The medium size ran out of adjustment just as he finished growing, making it a shade tight for comfort in running and very deep breathing, which is probably the best for car safety. He now freezes in his normal hyperactivity to get the harness or his lead put on, as he knows there is something in it for him.

Frederick the Great used to classify officers according to whether they were intelligent or stupid, hard-working or lazy. The hard-working and stupid one had to be got rid of, before he did the wrong thing with huge energy, but you could find a safe use for stupid and lazy. An intelligent and hard-working officer would make a good chief of staff, but the intelligent and lazy one was destined for high command, as he would always think "Are we really doing this the best way?"

In similar fashion I used to think we should get four types from canine intelligence and eagerness to please. I think more dogs than we realise are as intelligent as border collies. But Lanty is clever, very eager to please, but thinks he does it just by being him. I always imagine a conversation between him and his friend, a small and shy border collie who lives around the corner:

"Look, you realise this instant obedience training thing is just one of their jokes, right? A dog can't go very wrong as long as he is friendly."

"So who gets out in the street all day to meet kids?"

Do that with Lanty and he would be at the local primary school at break time, helping out deprived kids who have nothing but other kids and footballs to play with. Not that he would touch them, but can you count on a five-year-old communicating "I got dizzy watching him, and fell over"?

[XDROB]

So here's an update, First picture is right around when we brought him home.
Second picture is today. He is about 5 1/2 months old. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170911/4589862e36f65cc29bf21c50089c864e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170911/e8e4392a4238ecc9f17940a1d689cc48.jpg

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[DCP]

They get big fast. Have fun!

[XDROB]

My wife and I are having a great time with him.

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[MaryB]

Still some growing yet to fit those paws!

[XDROB]

Ya, I took a picture of him awhile back. His legs, ears, paws need some growing into.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170913/38d11bb9cebd9f31849553840b354472.jpg

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[XDROB]

Ya, I took a picture of him awhile back. His legs, ears, paws need some growing into.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170913/38d11bb9cebd9f31849553840b354472.jpg

Sent from my SM-N950U using TapatalkWas at breeder/trainer this past Wensday. He is growing. And playing in yard. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171027/f88d8f1292a68f6f96ff037a73b19879.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171027/4078025d2d6ee34cba8c9e00ed3df1ca.jpg

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[DCP]

Good looking dog

[XDROB]

Thank you.

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[RED BEAR]

There is nothing better than puppies. Always loyal and your best friend

[XDROB]

Logan and I have bonded very closely. I was worried about him running away when we went outside. The breeder said he wont go more the 20 feet from me. He was right. Until he became a teenager. We are now going through training. It is so cool when he heels and stays right on my side. When I tell him to sit aand drop the leash and walk away and he says in place.

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[snowwolfe]

Great thread, thanks people.