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<blockquote data-quote="Farm Family" data-source="post: 1814538" data-attributes="member: 43070"><p>We have always had at least one lab…like TC at one time I raised two (but 2 yrs apart). I <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="💗" title="Growing heart :heartpulse:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f497.png" data-shortname=":heartpulse:" /> my labs! Love them! They are the family dogs…watch the kids, follow them all over the farm, pleasant sensitive kind dispositions. Lots of attention needed in those "tender years" but so loyal and eager to please.</p><p></p><p>Cute…one group of heifers really fell in love with our current black lab. To this day that group still loves him. Whenever we needed to bring that group home we tell our lab "all the way home" and he will literally lead the "heifers" to their correct pen…they follow him as he proudly walks ahead of them with his tail in the air and head high! Only need 2-3 from that heifer year in the group and they show the herd how it's done. Last year we took him to pasture cause I needed a group to come to the loading pen and kids thought no way mom…it worked.</p><p></p><p>We run an LGD (Kuvasz x Maremma) to help the perimeter. She "guards" chickens, cats, the cattle, the lab, the children, the tool shed, the equipment, fuel tanks, the sky, even the petunias. She is our working dog and she takes her job very seriously. She is "socialized" in that she can be doctored, knows commands (ie. leave it, fall back, nice, sit, I see it, come, mine), tolerates necessary strangers (ie vet, egg and beef customers) but she is not a companion to anything but her family and her "charges".</p><p></p><p>She just turned two. I keep thinking she is older than she is - she is so business like. She has completed two calving seasons now, maybe this is why? Uniquely, she has a strong bond to cattle and this has been an excellent compliment to our needs.</p><p></p><p>There is definitely a difference in canine uses…for years we only ever had our labs. Now with predator pressure in the mountains, more ci-diots and nonsense we need something with a little more business…thus the LGD. Though the lab intimidates coyotes and strangers he is getting too old for that and does not like to be outside in -40 nor does he have the patience to observe a calving or lie with the chickens, or pace a perimeter line when a threat is near.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy the labs…I will always have a lab too! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="💗" title="Growing heart :heartpulse:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f497.png" data-shortname=":heartpulse:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farm Family, post: 1814538, member: 43070"] We have always had at least one lab…like TC at one time I raised two (but 2 yrs apart). I 💗 my labs! Love them! They are the family dogs…watch the kids, follow them all over the farm, pleasant sensitive kind dispositions. Lots of attention needed in those “tender years” but so loyal and eager to please. Cute…one group of heifers really fell in love with our current black lab. To this day that group still loves him. Whenever we needed to bring that group home we tell our lab “all the way home” and he will literally lead the ”heifers” to their correct pen…they follow him as he proudly walks ahead of them with his tail in the air and head high! Only need 2-3 from that heifer year in the group and they show the herd how it’s done. Last year we took him to pasture cause I needed a group to come to the loading pen and kids thought no way mom…it worked. We run an LGD (Kuvasz x Maremma) to help the perimeter. She “guards” chickens, cats, the cattle, the lab, the children, the tool shed, the equipment, fuel tanks, the sky, even the petunias. She is our working dog and she takes her job very seriously. She is “socialized” in that she can be doctored, knows commands (ie. leave it, fall back, nice, sit, I see it, come, mine), tolerates necessary strangers (ie vet, egg and beef customers) but she is not a companion to anything but her family and her “charges”. She just turned two. I keep thinking she is older than she is - she is so business like. She has completed two calving seasons now, maybe this is why? Uniquely, she has a strong bond to cattle and this has been an excellent compliment to our needs. There is definitely a difference in canine uses…for years we only ever had our labs. Now with predator pressure in the mountains, more ci-diots and nonsense we need something with a little more business…thus the LGD. Though the lab intimidates coyotes and strangers he is getting too old for that and does not like to be outside in -40 nor does he have the patience to observe a calving or lie with the chickens, or pace a perimeter line when a threat is near. Enjoy the labs…I will always have a lab too! 💗 [/QUOTE]
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