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Hi Mel, sorry to hear your lad has heart problems. If his vet advises a little weight loss, you might find this new article of Pippa’s helpful. I hope it’s useful. ❤️

Our Chocolate Lab will be 13 in 2 months. He’s not obese but a little chunky. I wish he could make it to 16, but he has a severely enlarged heart…probably genetic. So sad.

My chocolate Lab Tico turned 15 in March (short living chocolate, huh 😉 He is still going strong, only a little bit slower. One of my favorite photos was taken when he was just 5 months old at the Italian beach of my hometown in southern Italy, it was already published on this website at time in 2010. I am so happy and grateful he is still with me and hope he will stay very much longer.

Sending lots of love to all Labs and their families all over the world <3

Thanks for sharing your Labs’ story, Martin. It sounds like they gave you and your family a lot of love 🙂

Candy lived to 12, Candy litter Beauty & Bruno were 12, the litter from Beauty , sadly we lost Gemma to cancer @ 6. Tess lived to 13 .
When I left home and Joined British Army , and eventually got married and lived in army quarters, even though my mother still had Tess at the time. I missed the presence of Labrador in the house . My youngest was born , when he was six months, I was posted to unit to unit close to Hadleigh.

As a family , we decided to buy Boy Labrador, and named him Bruno . When he turned one , he was fully trained , he was very intelligent and loved my youngest, we eventually managed to get posted back to the Northeast of England closer to our family . We had further two children, the kids adored Bruno , the kids would cycle around area we called quadrangle, which was across from our garden . Bruno would watch them , and if they strayed out of sight , he would come to kitchen window and bark.
When Bruno was nearly nine, we decided to buy female Labrador, local to where we live. We named her Bonnie ,Bruno accepted her, Bonnie had just over year with Bruno. We had to put him to sleep ,due to chronic arthritis. The pain in his eyes ,when he refused to go for a walk . At the time there was limited anti inflammerty drugs on the market, having him put to sleep was hard to let go. Bonnie character changed ,she became very clingy, and she developed depression. My daughter loved her to bits,they did every thing together . The only thing, to over come her depression, we would have to buy another Labrador. We decided on Rescue, we found Roxy @ 4 month . She had been miss treated by previous owner . With our family love ,we got her back to being Lab, full of character and playfull pup. Bonnie accepted Roxy, and tjey became soul mates.
We decided to add to our family, it was year before lock down, and we decided on buying another Labrador. We picked Boy, and his name was Marley.

Bonnie and Roxy were not sure at first,but gradually accepted Marley . Bonnie adopted Marley ,as if she had pups. Roxy would put him in his place,when he crossed the line. When Marley was two ,during lockdown ,he developed Epileps and he had his fair share of seizure. With the correct drugs ,we eventually got his levels right.
The latter years of Bonnie life , Bonnie developed stage 4 heart disease, she was 12 & 1/2 when we had to put her to sleep, her kidney were not working ,and she refused to eat ,and all the years Bonnie was unwell ,she always wanted her meals. It was hard for me as I was working offshore ,and my family had to take he to the vets to let her go over the 🌈. We all ways said ,she was almost human in character , she gave so much love ,and most placid nature, and would of been the perfect mother if she had pups of her own. My daughter who was 17 ,it had big effect on her , they were joind at the hip for so many adventures they did. Roxy and Marley, thought she was spending few days at vets . Her memories are never forgotten ❤️. Moving forward seven months on from passing of Bonnie . My daughter wakes up one Sunday morning and said ,I want to buy pup. So went and founder breeder in the Northeast of England, and brought Ruby home. Marly adopted Ruby with in few weeks ,it took Roxy couple of months .

Ruby puppy days, she played hard with Marley,but he’s so soft , he has never went for her . It’s like roles were reversed ,he gave Bonnie such hard time when he was younger . Ruby is nearly three in few months time. Roxy is 11, and Marly 6. The good news , Marley has been 590 days seizure free. We’re unsure what age Roxy will live to, she has arthritis, managed with Youmove and managed with out door activities, she does. The good news her heart is good . We’re hoping that Marley continues to stays seizure free and hopefully is around until 11-12 . The medication not good for his liver ,however he takes milk thistle to help protect his organs. We are looking at Ruby. Having litter in two / three years . My 18 yrs old ,wants to keep a Boy puppy and name the pup Sandro ,after the footballer player who is currently playing for Newcatle.
I hope you have enjoyed my story of owning Labrador. The Number one pet ,to be around children .

Happy upcoming birthday to Manikka!