As I have mentioned before, Mark and I have a one year old chocolate lab. He is just one of the cutest dogs in the world. Labs are known as hunting dogs.... specifically bird hunting. They normally are trained to flush out birds and then retrieve them. They are also well known water dogs, they love to swim. So it is a interesting display of domestication how sometimes the natural characteristics of an animal can change when put into a different environment. This was never more apparent as it was today. When I let Dutch out for lunch this is what I saw....
Three ducks had landed in our back yard. Dutch of course immediately noticed them and alerted me with a bark. (Such a good guard dog.) What he did not do is run after them chasing them off. In fact the ducks just kept on keeping on after noticing him. Only when I tried to get closer to get a better picture did they fly off.
Perhaps in the feature these guys will be friends.
