Describe your Labrador Retriever, is it crazy like mine?

United States
November 28, 2007 9:04am CST
I have a five year old black Lab named Sophie. She is gorgeous and really sweet, but she has the funniest and weirdest behaviors. Anytime she gets a new toy she immediately has to rip out the squeaker and all the stuffing along with it and spread it all around the house like snow. She loves to take walks but always has to walk along fences or through bushes and tall plants. I'm pretty sure she has eaten a thousand things that should have made her sick and is always perfectly healthy. Anytime she sees a squirrel she goes crazy and has to chase it, but she has an odd affection for a squirrel stuffed animal and carries it around the house with her and she does this funny little head tilt whenever I talk to her so I swear she knows what I'm saying. What crazy things does your Lab do?
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
28 Nov 07
Well I don't have a lab, but I have a Chesapeake Bay instead, and she is very quirky! She does the exact same thing with a stuffed toy, except, she does not rip it apart until her 'daddy' gets home, because I tell her to be nice to the baby, and she is until he gets home and then it's katy bar the door! lol She has a thing for ceiling fans, she tries to jump up and get it. When we sing or hum the theme from batman, she runs to her 'batcave' the upstairs attic. lol When we give her a treat, we tell her to sit, she does, then we tell her to backup and she lays down and scoots backward, about 3 inches at a time lol.
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• United States
28 Nov 07
We also take her camping and when it gets dark, she is ready to go to bed, she goes over, gets her nose in and unzips the tent door, goes in and lays on the air matteress
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@jayjose (102)
• Philippines
29 Nov 07
we have a black lab by the name of "jordan". Yup! he's always full of energy, likes to play and get wet in the rain. at night, he loves to silently crawl to you without being notice (which is hard to notice since he is black) and suddenly jump at you ^_^ He also loves to play with my mom's orchids...Which in as a result, he always being scolded by my mom... and you can see it in his face... even after being scolded, the sad lonely face... and sometimes, he'll skip a meal or two just because of it ^_^
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• United States
28 Nov 07
I've got two labs, both black, but one is male and one is female. My female is not a full blooded lab, but my male is. My female is a lab/pit bull mix. My male lab is a full blooded lab. My female is just an idiot. She's spastic and just does what she wants. I think she has that Travis Tritt song, "It's a Great Day to Be Alive" running through her head 24/7. She's a lovable dog though, just spastic. She's about 2. Her trick is dancing. She can stand up on her hind legs and jump and dance in a circle. That's her happy dance. If she's outside and sees me come outside, she'll run to me, get up on her back legs and hop and dance in a circle. She also loves to put her paws on my chest or hips and walk with me in a conga line. She's such a hoot. My male lab is very smart and is a bit spastic, but he can control his spasticness when he wants to. He loves to swim and fetch. I can throw a tennis ball or just hit it with my racket and he'll fetch it until he collapses due to exhaustion. He's about 9. I got him when I was out horseback riding and I watched someone throw him out of a moving truck. He took a tumble across the road and hit one of the posts of my fence hard. He broke his back. I took him into the vet and they fixed him. He's got a bit of a limp, but not really that noticeable. His funny thing is sticks. We call them ducks. We had a power pole fall in our backyard and the utility commission did not remove the broken pole. They just left it in the back yard, but at least moved it against the side of our patio to get it out of the way. When it fell, I brought him outside and told him to "get the duck" and pointed at that pole. He tried for a solid 20 minutes trying to pick up that 20 foot tall pole. He finally gave up and brought me a tree branch that the utility people had trimmed away from the power lines after they replaced the broken pole. They are both great dogs and I wouldn't trade them for the world