Comments on: The Complete Labrador Retriever History

By: Meg Austwick

Meg Austwick — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 06:40:35 +0000

In reply to Classics. Hi there, Pippa has written a great article on silver Labs which you can access here: Silver Lab - The Facts About Silver Labrador Retrievers

By: Classics

Classics — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:36:01 +0000

Pippa thank you for a great article. What do you make of all of the early evidence of silver Labs that is surfacing as archivists digitize historic newspapers and make them available online to the general public? I keep seeing ads and articles posted online by advocates for the idea that silver Labs are purebred and have been around in England (albeit in relatively small numbers, but present nonetheless) since well before the Kellogg Kennel of the states supposedly bred them in the 1950s. Have you seen it? Some of it is rather convincing to me and it would be interesting to get your take on it. Barring counterfeit records, which I would expect could easily be discovered, the recently-presented evidence appears to solidify what they had already been saying for years about silver as a very recessive but genuine color within our breed.

By: Jacqueline cook

Jacqueline cook — Sun, 10 May 2020 23:00:14 +0000

Hello Danielle, We are so sorry that your wonderful family dog is very old now and in pain,
it is so hard to let go. We had a loving dog like yours for 17 yrs. and Sage had the same symptoms
as yours and a vet. helped us to gently put him down. Loss of any kind is heartbreaking and we
feel lost in handling our feelings. I can hardly recommend the book, “Man’s Search For Meaning”
by Victor Frankl, This book is well written and known around the world. He teaches you how to
deal with things out of our control and to take the power that you have to make positive decisions
to find meaning again and move forward. Take that power and concentrate on the wonderful love
you gave him and carry the fire forward, the blessings you received, you can carry the light. Jacquie

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:31:25 +0000

I’m really interested to know if it’s possible to acquire a proper, what used to be called, Otter tail Labrador? Maybe in the US they’re known as St John’s Labrador? We had one when I was a child, called Sasha. She was smaller than a standard retriever, much stockier with shorter legs, a white spot on her chest, a line down her snout to her nose, had webbed feet and would swim underwater. She would dive in after a fish or, when my father was hunting, to retrieve his kill. She was short haired with a thick oily black coat. My father got her in the late 1960s. She lived to 14 years old and had one litter. Her daughter Dyska sadly was run over by a truck when she was just 2 years old. Can anyone help me with this, or point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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By: Bev Maunsell

Bev Maunsell — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:46:14 +0000

Buy some “Pawz” dog shoes, the purple ones fit Labradors, they are thick rubber balloons that are
made in US, used to be called “Sticky Pawz”, great help for old dogs who loose control of their back legs,
gives them traction to get up, stops them slipping. I used to buy them online, but they are now selling them in Australia. Up to my tenth Labrador.
A wise person once said to me,(when I was grieving my dog) dogs don’t live as long as us, so you get to have many more in your life and they are ALL wonderful.

By: Pippa

Pippa — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 09:16:52 +0000

In reply to Danielle Petty.

It is so hard to know what to do when our friends get old. Some people have found this article, and all the comments on it, a comfort https://www.thelabradorsite.com/knowing-when-to-let-go-of-your-labrador/

By: Danielle Petty

Danielle Petty — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 03:24:47 +0000

I have a fourteen-year-old St. John Labrador. She, Blue Michelle Bailey (first name is after the jazz club in NYC called BlueNote because my son’s trumpet practices and husband’s love of jazz music soothed her every time it was played.) She was totally comfortable. She has always been an inside dog since we adopted her in Galveston, Texas in 2001 when she was four months old. She is the absolute best dog in the whole wide world. She slept with my son every night during grade school. Swam to us whenever we went swimming and when fishing she would swim out to catch our bobbers or the fish we reeled in! She will check every door, open with her nose, until she found me. If I was in the bathroom and she didn’t really want to come in she would nudge the door open, it would always slowly close, and then she would nudge it open until she was sure that I was there. Blue is the best at playing hide-and-seek. Naturally I would hide and you can hear her walking and sniffing and checking every room and walking back to the rear of the house and then to the front until she could find me and she never ever gave up! When she found me she was the happiest girl in the whole wide world! We love her more than anything and none of us have ever had such a relationship with an animal. She is our greeter, soother, making sure you are okay in the middle of the night, sleeping against your bed to make sure she knew when you woke up. She has gray around her mouth, her eyebrows, her face (slightly). She poops while she is lying down, and that is a natural no-no. She knew it. She can’t help it. She can’t hardly make a step down and two steps up to go potty. We are so sad and scared. We love her so much. Watching her slip to step down a step because of hip-dysplasia is agonizing, she has difficulty walking , period..but she does it anyway because she wants to be close or she wants to hear us, or she needs something…our bestest dog in the whole wide world. What do we do?

By: Heather Woolley

Heather Woolley — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:32:00 +0000

I have read the History of these wonderful Dog’s before. I have at present ,one beautiful boy nearly four years old. Fox Red and the temperament of an Angel. He is my last and I could not have had a better. All our Labs and retrievers and Springers have been the most amazing trouble free friends you could ever have. Knowing them is to love them. They are the best!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:07:38 +0000

Thank you for your interesting FB page, Pippa. I have had Labs for thirty years, all of the gundog type, each one with his or her own personality. These wonderful dogs have greatly enriched my life, smart, sweet, humorous, and always ready for a walk and a swim. No better animal companion can be found.