May / June 2005
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2
Features
Stupid Lab Tricks
Smart, loyal, and affectionate, Labs still find ways to test our patience.
by Don Thomas
Shelby the Diving Lab
A photo essay by Christopher Cole
Shelby goes anywhere for a fetch.
Off-Road Lab
Itˊs summer time, and the trails are calling.
by Ann O’Brien
Animal Roughhousing
When else is going on when two dogs play?
by Temple Grandin
H2O Lab
A photo essay
A Lab’s element.
Advanced Obedience Training Classes
Last issue, we talked about puppy kindergarten classes. But as your dog matures, are more advanced classes in his future?
by William Vickers
Training Tround Table: Who Should Do the Training?
Labs are family dogs – but should the whole family train the Lab?
The Things We Do For the Labs We Love
How an impulse purchase turned our lives upside down.
by Shannon Gallo
Exercise Induced Collapse
Taking aim at an emerging problem in Labs.
by Dr. Ben Character
Departments
In Their Debt
by Anita Biase
More proof of a Labˊs super sniffer.
Citizen Lab
by Amy Dahl
Back to heeling basics.
Why Labs Do That
by Tom Davis
Coat of three colors.
The Vet Clinic
by Dr. Jill Hyland Ayres & Dr. Rose Davidson
What lurks in the water.
Just Labs – Just for Kids
by Jake Smith and Tom Goldsmith
Our Lab Trainer in Training series continues with teaching ˵stay.”
Ectetera
“Find the Tennis Ball” Winners
The World According to Junior
by Junior Watson
Subscriber Photos
In Tribute
Just How It Is
by Laurie Morrow