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One year ago on July 15, my husband and I adopted Daisy from MLRR, and it was one of the best decisions we have made. She is a sweet, loving pet, and has settled in so well to her forever home. She loves sleeping on her doggie beds, chewing on her bones, and playing with her doggie brother. She’s very well behaved, and has learned all the family routines, including knowing when we’re getting ready to cook some broccoli. It’s one of her favorite foods, along with carrots, bananas and strawberries.
Her only mishap was getting sprayed by a skunk a couple of weeks ago – but she cleaned up well, and we don’t have to call her “Stinky” anymore. A couple of weeks ago, we took her to the vet for her shots, and he said that she was in great shape.
Hi MLRR! We just thought we would send an update on how things are going with our new member of the family! Dawson (formerly JC) has settled in quite well with us. He's VERY active with other dogs and when new visitors come to the house, but when we are just hanging out at home, he is lazy boy! As you can see in the picture, he loves to lay around on our furniture, whether it be the couches or the bed, but his favorite spot is probably the chair right by the window where he loves to watch everyone walk by. He loves to go running with mom, sometimes up to 5 miles, and it doesn't even tire him out! He doesn't like the heat too much though with his thick, black coat. When it's too hot, he likes running around in the lake at the dog park splashing and chasing all of his buddies. He doesn't like to swim though-he prefers to stay in the shallow water. This might partly be because our lab isn't a labrador after all! Everyone was always so curious what he was with his unique features, so we decided to do a doggie DNA test. As it turns out, he is mostly Siberian Husky and Shar-Pei, which was not at all what we expected!! Either way, we love our Dawson more than anything, and cannot imagine our life without him. He does everything with us, including running daily errands since hanging his head out the window of the car with that big tongue flapping in the wind is one of his very favorite things to do! We couldn't be happier, and neither could Dawson. He is living the good life over here, that's for sure! Thank you so much MLRR-even if he isn't actually a lab, he turned out to be the perfect dog for us anyway. 
Things have been wonderful with our adopted Lab, Riley (formally Sugar) which
we adopted on October 30, 2009. It took only
a couple nights for Riley to get comfortable with her crate and her new
surroundings. Riley had her first play
date with the neighbor dog Ginger her first weekend and the two dogs became
great friends.
Since we didn’t know exactly when we would be adopting a
dog, we had a vacation already planned to go to Florida over the Thanksgiving holiday. My parents live in Florida during the winter months so we were
able to take Riley with us. She did
great in the car and had lots of fun during our vacation. Riley got to experience the beach, the ocean,
as well as several dog friendly restaurants and it had seemed as though she had
been with us all her life.
As soon as we returned from Florida , obedience training began
immediately. During the graduation,
Riley was the star of her class by completing the obstacle course, not only in
the best time for her class, but reportedly in near record time. The fact that
she will do anything for a treat didn’t hurt.
It is amazing how fast Riley has adapted to us and us to
her. She is so energetic and happy all
the time. Every morning when we wake up
and every night when we come home from work, she greets us with an energetic
little tap dance and wiggle. We keep
busy playing in the back yard and going for walks, two of her favorite things.
Thank you MLRR for taking the time to find us our perfect
lab and bringing Riley into our lives! We can’t imagine our lives without her!
Just wanted to forward a picture of our adopted dog, Hawk (formerly known as Nick). He has been a fantastic addition to the family and we can't imagine life without him!
Yesterday marked our 1 year anniversary of adopting Louie ,(aka Chewy Louie, LouDog, Stinky Lou, Lewis Winthorp Kolka III..he's got a lot of nicknames :) form Midwest Lab Rescue. We cannot imagine our lives without him. The pictures is him sitting on 'his rug'. We keep his treats on top of our refrigerator and whenever we have any guests over he always goes to the rug and sits and stares at the top of the refrigerator to show everyone where his treats are kept ( just in case we forgot). LouDog's favorite things to do are (in this order I think) 1. eating ( he is a Lab after all) 2. going for walks/runs 3. bothering our kitties 4. playing with other dogs. He has learned the sound of my sister's alarm on her car and runs to the door when he hears her arrive with Baxter.
Here are our two boys both from MWLR (Max is the yellow, Dru the black). Maximus was adopted about 5 years ago and Drusus just last December. Both boys are doing so well. Max was very much the big baby Hughie while our older black lab, Augie, was alive. When Augie passed, Max seemed very confused on his place. Once Dru came home, Max quickly became the older alpha brother and seems so happy and well suited for this role. This left Dru to develop his incredibly goofy personality. Dru is probably the goofiest, but sweetest, lab to ever join our family. We can't even put into words how much these two dogs complete our family.