My Golden Retriever pup has a stone for a head

I have a Golden Retriever too! Her name is Poppy, but unlike your pup, she is a complete wuss!
Thing is, I like her that way, I have two small children and her temperament is just fantastic with the kids! She is almost 3 years old now, but this is what she looked like as a pup..... http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6235
Retrievers Rule!!

I just got a Lab 2 weeks ago. My brother's girl gave her to us. Her name is Crystal but I'm thinkin about changing it.

She is about 4 months now. I was always a fan of Rottweilers and never had anything but. But man is this dog active! I might get another Rott also.

One of the reasons is this dog will be a wuss also when it comes to guarding and protecting and that's what I want.


I really hear you IPlural. I love when she dives on me on the couch. 3/4 of the couch will be empty but she will decide to go over me. She is very smart though and was house trained in 2 days. I also taught her sit, lay down and paw and other paw in one day.

But like I said she is a retriever and very active! Sometimes I wish I just had a lazy Rott! She gets alot of exercise though and is very cut and strong.

I'm gonna host a picture and show you her the first day I got her.

yeah they do, Boomer is my second, the first was stolen by a friend fomr someone who was trying to make a guard dog for construction sites out of him. Sam, I had him for 13 year and he was fantastic with kids for sure, he would ruff and roll in the dirt with me one moment and then lay down and my son would crawl over and bite his nose and pull his ears.

even after everything he had gone through in the first year of his life he was fantastic.

Boomer was one of the last in his litter because he was so in control of the play pen
He is so freaking smart, and yet stubon as can be, almost like he has a rock between his ears

Poppy's a sweetie

I've got my network all stripped down and office turned inside out still, but will have to get boomers pic online soon " I am going to put his fathers pic for my desktop screen shot for the time being though, he is going to look exactly like him

Golden Retrievers are my favorite dog!

They are smart and have the best disposition!

Oh I forget, that's a cute dog you got there BoXXi.

Golden and Labrador retrievers are very good with children and other animals. Good family dogs.

Pic comin soon.

My brothers got a Newfie, sucker is 159 lbs !!! and still growing and not fat either!

WHen he was little I used to let him pull on my shoe strings, now he attempts to yank me off the couch



Rotts are smart and loving too, Labs and Golden's can be protective, though it is not the norm I guess, mostly how you raise them I think.

They pretty much stay pups in the head up until around 3 years of age of a little after and then calm a bit, well some



oh, and water! Boomer's in hog heaven living here in Florida with the gulf almost in our back yard.

is there a vertain size I should make the screen shot for uploading?

Snowed here today...Poppy just about ate a whole snowman!!

just use a standard size.... like 1024x768.

guess not, it's there in my profile

now I have to get one of boomer together

oh and my son, he's stationed in Alameda CA on the Sherman BW/Picket/Cruiser USCG

I need to clean that up in photoshop thats a direct scan into ACDSee. Mytech scanner, does a clean job but I need to clean the background out so you can see his face.

geesh, mmm, maybe I should run it through smartsave pro and compress the sucker, cause at 1.5 mbit it is taking a bit to upload

Here's a couple of pics of my Lab the first day I got her alittle over 2 weeks ago. She got her mouth on everything


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid49/p6bd15cb9b36d27e5f637b796b2af516d/fcafd612.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid49/p867574a97545b652ae7e0afa59bfeebe/fcafd611.jpg


She has gotten alot bigger.

IPlural, about this comment:

"They pretty much stay pups in the head up until around 3 years of age of a little after and then calm a bit, well some"



I was really afraid to hear that. I've heard that from quite a few people. She's starting to calm down but this dog is filled with so much energy. Like I said I've only had Rotts and am not used to this. I mean it's all good but SIT DOWN sometimes !

yeah it is like another world for them, you get up and go into the bathroom without them and when you return it is as if you where gone a century !!!

there it is

No IPlural, this dog will follow me to the bathroom and open the door on me and come in . Everytime. I have to lock it now.

If she's in my room half asleep and I go to another room she will always follow. She has to know what's goin on.

Great dog though. Can't wait till I get a Rott and have 2 to watch after.

that Butt in the Air nawing on "fill in the blank" is classic

Then they stop and don't move, and you look and they are looking right at you in the eyes, and you can see the thoughts form as they look away and then kind of drift over and let you know "HEY lets play"

Hehe, that's crazy .

Very nice dog in that picture, well built.


3 looooong years to go . I might look for a Rott this weekend. Have to get one while she's still young.

That would be really cool for her and you and your family really Her disposition will be a factor in the Rott's mental development socially and there will also be the natural protective nature there also

bye the way she is a sweetie too like poggy

That's a very interesting point.

I was thinking about that and I think they would get along great. Both great dogs.


I've never had two dogs but I should be able to handle it. Too bad dogs aren't allowed in the park around the corner. Now they made a little area.

Suprisingly, this Lab never gets car sick. Forget about the Rott I had before this dog.

*deleted five pages explaining the nature of animals and growth partners including the human animal as a comparison"

I think to much and read way to much...


Two dogs are fantastic really

Dogs provide unconditional love to you...
they instictively feel what you are feeling.
they rejoice in the love and good feeligs that you deign to bestow upon them....
a pretty decent companion I would have to say!

Very true JamMeister.

And IPlural, it's not fantastic in the beginning .

Not many dogs out there I dislike, it's usually the 'owners'!
We have a pair of Beagles, 'Chloe' is a lemon and 'Biggles' a tri .... beautiful dogs and neither has a mean bone in their bodies!
Goldies are great, sort of a big hairy Beagle in temperament!

BoXXi, I just looked up Your profile over at da. I noticed we have the same 'Favorite cartoon character' !