Your Name: Sooz Spruce E., Maine
When is your Labˊs birthday? November 7, 2002
What is your Labˊs favorite food?Counter food
What is your Labˊs most mischievous behavior?
Opening the door to the treat closet with his nose.
Does your Lab participate in any activities?
He’s good at agility but doesn’t participate in any organized functions.
Please share a favorite story about your Lab.
Wilbur is disturbingly happy. He’s mostly been an OCD tennis ball dog so I was midly surprised and very happy when he saved me. I was snowshoeing along the river bank in January on a 40-degree day. He had his Kong frisbeee, which was a treat for him because I didn’t normally allow a Kong near a river. Here’s why: Wilbur went to the river bank and promptly dropped his frisbee in the river. Ugh, $10 ready to float away. So I found a long stick with a hook on the end, got on my belly, and just as I was close to snagging it I felt myself slip head first, unable to stop, and I was up to my chest. With my snowshoes on, a muddy bottom, and a three-foot smooth bank. I gave up trying to claw my way up the bank, and for lack of a better solution at the moment, I was able to shed my snowshoes. As I threw my snowshoes up on the bank, I felt more than really saw Wilbur almost sticking his neck out to me as if to say, “Well, come on, just grab it.” So I did. I latched onto his collar and he pulled me out of the river. I was in the river because of him but it was a moot point now. He promptly and humbly looked back down into the river as if to say, “Okay, now get the frisbee and get on with playing.”
