Browsing Tag Labrador

Toda Mi Vida Been Searching for this Pittie (Adopt-A-Dog Day 30)

Adopt-A-Shelter Dog Month is one day shy of ending and it’s only fitting that today’s adoptable dog should be named “Vida”, meaning “life” in Latin/Spanish. So many of the adoptable dogs this month have come from very rough beginnings, but continue to love with bright eyes, hanging tongues, and wagging tails. They are all looking [...]


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October 30, 2009 By:
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Julie the Pleasant Pitador (Adopt-A-Dog Day 27)

Does every pup have their costumes ready for the big day? Howloween? Well, our Adopt-A-Dog for today is going as a jail bird! Take a look at a video of Julie’s nifty costume here. The hunt for the pawfect pet parents for 31 pawtastic pups continues with day 27 and our latest adoptable dog Julie. [...]


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October 27, 2009 By:
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Alexander the Grrrrreat (Adopt-A-Dog Day 22)

Alexander is a sweet, energetic love bug who can jump like he has his own personal trampoline! He is the 22nd featured pooch in Adopt-A-Dog Month and i Love Dogs‘ October-long campaign to find homes for 31 dogs. The handsome 8-month-old Lab/pit bull pup (who prefers to go by “Alex”) can already walk well on [...]


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October 22, 2009 By:
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Antonio the Canine Casanova (Adopt-A-Dog Day 12)

Antonio is our 12th featured dog in Adopt-A-Dog Month and i Love Dogs‘ October campaign to find furever homes for 31 pooches. The suave and charming Antonio is a 4-year-old Lab/Shepherd mix. Antonio loves the ladies…particularly of the four-legged variety. He’s especially enamored with Sierra, one of his many gal pals at the Linda Blair [...]


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October 12, 2009 By:
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Pumpkin, a Mellow Girl Ready for a Home (Adopt-a-Dog Day 10)

Meet Pumpkin, a 1-year-old Pit/Lab mix who smiles sweeter than any Jack O’ Lantern. She’s an easy-going girl who needs no training, say folks at Karma Rescue. This girl is ready to be a first dog for that special home. In fact, she is so mellow she will make a great second dog! Her honey-colored [...]


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October 10, 2009 By:
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Huggalicious Brownie (Adopt-A-Dog Day 9)

Meet sweet Brownie, a loving and huggable 7-year-old Lab/terrier mix who’s our ninth dog in i Love Dogs’ October campaign to find new homes for 31 dogs.  Brownie’s Ruff Rescue: Brownie won the hearts of the staff at the Los Angeles animal shelter where he was languishing. The Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation (LBWF) answered their pleas [...]


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October 9, 2009 By:
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The Gift of an Active Life

During his nine years of training dogs, Jef Blake has developed a philosophy based on doing what is best for each individual dog.  He shares his home with 9-year-old Milo, a chocolate lab, and three younger border collies:  Gael, Voucher and Klepto. Jef is currently competing with two of them, but he spends equal time every [...]


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July 25, 2009 By:
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Margo’s Bark Root Beer Helps Homeless Dogs

Margo has come a long way from living as a stray in a Long Beach parking lot. Now she’s the spokesdog for Margo’s Bark, a root beer that raises funds for her homeless peers. The Labrador-Pit Bull mix owes her rise to fame to her 8-year-old boy, Oscar Youd. When Oscar was a kindergartner at St. [...]


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July 23, 2009 By:
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Is Cloning for the Dogs?

Lanceycrosses his front paws and tries to snatch bagels off the counter just like his predecessor.
Lancey’s human mother, Nina Otto, isn’t completely sure if counter antics stem from puppy behavior or from the DNA he was cloned from. The 7-month-old Lancelot Encore is a clone of Lancelot, a yellow Labrador Retriever who died in 2008.
“He seems to be 99 percent there,” Otto said


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July 21, 2009 By:
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Lab with Frequent Nose Bleeds

My 6-year-old chocolate Lab was getting a lot of bloody noses. He was diagnosed with a staph infection and put on antibiotics, but the nose bleeds have started again. What should I do?


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May 10, 2009 By:
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