All You Need is Love... and a Dog, or Two

Yesterday’s blog was all about my adorable chocolate lab named Cooper and today’s is going to be about his equally adorable counterpart, Sadie. 

We adopted Sadie from Florida Lab Rescue from a wonderful women who fostered many labs, Denise(there will be more about her in a future blog).  We had decided that it would be good for Cooper to have a companion.  Although I work from home, I didn’t have a lot of time to play with Cooper and we figured another dog would do him good.  I am not sure if he has actually forgiven us yet.  LOL, Sadie has turned his quiet peaceful world upside down. 

 Sadie is a beautiful yellow lab who we like to compare to Kramer from Seinfeld.  She is crazy and silly and wants nothing more than to please and to be loved.  She is our problem child you could say.  She barks too much, she gets into the trash, she steals things off the coffee tables, all of which Cooper has never done.  She also tries to lick everyone and when I mentioned this as well as the jumping up on people, to an owner of mine who has several labs, his suggestion was to get a squirt bottle with water and squirt her with it when she licks and or jumps up. Well we tried that and she loved it. She is getting better with the licking now, but stil tries to do it, if she is super excited. 

She always seen to find some trouble. We had an area in the yard partioned off, so sod could grow. she got stuck here and hoped nobody would notice. 

 

She hates baths. 

 

 She won't let you forget it's 4:30, time for dinner.

Sadie has brought a lot of laughter and joy into our home and has provided a playmate for Cooper. They do enjoy wrestling and playing tug of war. Cooper however, likes some time to himself the just relax, or get some sun, and if Sadie wants to play, and will not leave him alone. She will grab him by the color and actually drag him until the collar comes off. Some days he just has to hide under my desk. 

 

We have had Sadie for two years now and she is a wonderful addition to our family.  

 

 

 

A dog is the only animal that loves you more than he loves himself

I am currently participating in the 2014 Jump Start blogging challenge on Active Rain, and posting a blog a day for the month of January.   Being that there is a dog lovers group, I thought it was time that I wrote about mine. 

Anyone who really knows me, knows how much I love my dogs.  They are my babies, my angels, my precious girl and boy…. Those are just a few of the terms of endearment they hear everyday.  They are the stars of my personal Facebook page and take up the most room on my photo stream.  That’s says a lot, being a property manager and taking tons of pictures of properties at move in and move outs.

 

This blog is going to be about Cooper:

 

We got him from a breeder. After a bad experience with trying to adopt a little bit of an older lab, we wanted a breeder with an excellent reputation and paid a pretty penny for him.  We found one in Malabar, way out in the middle of nowhere.  We got on a waiting list for the latest batch of labs, that were just born and there were several chocolate and black. I wanted the chocolate. The breeder was really great, she posted photos at fist of all of them, and each had a different color collar.  We had fist pick of the litter, since we put our money down first and since I wanted chocolate, and my husband wanted a male, we had three to choose from.  When they were about three weeks old, we started being able to view the litter multiple times a day for hours at  a time if we wanted, on web cam.  It was so awesome and it didn’t take me long to fall in love with the one with the red collar.  It wasn’t just my choice though, we all had a say, so I kept am open mind.  Orange collar was pretty cute and a favorite of one or two in my family. But there was just something about the one with the red collar. 

We went to meet them finally, and that was when we could make our choice.  I think it was pretty unanimous at that point. He was just so darn adorable.  He wandered away at one point, and actually followed my husband back to the group, and fell asleep in my arms. 

 

It was so hard to wait the three more weeks to bring him home.   I was lucky at that time to work in a small office where they were pretty laid back on some things and got to bring him to work for a few weeks, until he could go a little longer without going to the bathroom.  From day one, he was the sweetest most adorable dog there ever was.  That was almost five years ago and we consider ourselves blessed every day to have this wonderful angel in our lives.