We love Amber, our 9 month old yellow labrador retriever we brought home to be part of our family in May, when she was 10 weeks old and weighed 16 lbs. I laboriously got her into my lap in my recliner, since she really seemed to enjoy the closeness. As she grew, though, I decided she was definitely not in the lap dog category.
Now, at 9 months old, she weighs around 81 pounds. She still considers herself a lap dog, insisting that my husband allow her up in his lap in the evenings. As you can see, she’s quite a handful.
I watch her out of the corner of my eye when she’s in my husband’s lap. She will suddenly sit up very straight and look at me with a gleam in her eye. I leap out of my chair – not wanting to even THINK about her leaping from his chair to mine – and sit on one end of the couch.
Here I am with our ‘lap dog’ on the couch. My husband snapped this pic for the rare moment Amber was quiet. She’s usually busy lapping my face and making me laugh until I have trouble catching my breath. She’s a great addition to our family.
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Amber is very beautiful, Linda 🙂
Now she weigh almost the same as my Odin.
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It would be good if Amber acted like Odin. Having this large a ‘puppy’ gets pretty exciting at times. :0)
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He he he Linda. Odin does often think and behave, if he was a puppy still 😀
Last week I visited our vet to buy some needed medication for the cats and he asked as usual, how is it going with all the animals? I answered, that I had a problem with Odin, because he in two days wouldn’t play a seek game, which he use to love, when we are out at our walks. Then the vet silent suggested, that maybe Odin was going to behave like a more adult dog now, when he soon will be 5 years old 😀
I needed to disappoint the vet, Odin is a little wild, which the vet see, when he visit us for treating them sometimes.
Next day Odin played again, I think he got a cold, which infected his need to smell.
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Oh, well. Hopefully, I’ll be able to handle this behavior in stride one day, having had so much daily practice. :0) I’m glad Odin was playing again.
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