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    A Puppy Love Guide; About the Labrador Retriever, Tips for Bringing Your Lab Puppy Home, and Doggone Delicious Recipes
    A Puppy Love Guide; About the Labrador Retriever, Tips for Bringing Your Lab Puppy Home, and Doggone Delicious Recipes
    A Puppy Love Guide; About the Labrador Retriever, Tips for Bringing Your Lab Puppy Home, and Doggone Delicious Recipes
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    A Puppy Love Guide; About the Labrador Retriever, Tips for Bringing Your Lab Puppy Home, and Doggone Delicious Recipes

    By Virginia Clark

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    From a preeminent breeder, learn the history of the Labrador Retriever; the magnificence and qualities of the breed; how to care for your new Lab puppy; and get some of our tried and true Doggone Delicious recipes! Contains 95 pages packed full of information so you know all about your Labrador Retriever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA Vegas Publisher
    Release dateMar 2, 2016
    ISBN9781311873033
    A Puppy Love Guide; About the Labrador Retriever, Tips for Bringing Your Lab Puppy Home, and Doggone Delicious Recipes
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    Virginia Clark

    I am from a small town on the east coast, went to the local high school. Married at an early age and raised a family. When my children grew up, I went to college to further my career in writing. I chose this form of writing because of everyday living. Life is sometimes too hard from day to day. It makes it tough when there are matters of the heart. So I have mixed love, everyday living and inspiration. My poetry is light and easy on the mind. And the inspirational poems are for the soul. The poems are: love, hate, and make do! I hope reading my book, will make your days and your nights easier, and with the prayers to the Lord, sweeter!

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      A Puppy Love Guide; About the Labrador Retriever, Tips for Bringing Your Lab Puppy Home, and Doggone Delicious Recipes - Virginia Clark

      A Puppy Love Guide

      About the Labrador Retriever,

      Tips for Bringing your Lab Puppy Home, and Doggone Delicious Recipes

      Virginia Clark

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2016 by Virginia Clark

      All Rights Reserved.

      Table of Contents

      Part I: About the Labrador Retreiver

      Part II: Transition from Kennel to Home

      Bringing your puppy home

      What to expect once you are home

      Introducing a baby

      Introducing another dog

      Introducing a cat

      Greeting visitors

      Feeding time

      Housebreaking time

      Crate training

      Veterinary care

      Grooming

      Concerns about dog parks

      Age to attend obedience classes

      Leashing

      Teething and Chewing

      The Incidental Discovery

      Part III: Doggone Delicious Recipes!

      Part I

      About The Labrador Retriever

      According to the American Kennel Club, the Labrador retriever is America’s most popular choice as the preferred breed. The Labrador retriever makes for an excellent companion because it is loyal and good natured and is known to be a useful, hard working dog. Some of the breed characteristics include but certainly not limited to: Is the perfect breed for the novice owner, has a high sensitivity level, and can tolerate cold climates well. They are known to be loyal, friendly and affectionate with family, friends, children, strangers, and other dogs. They are easy to groom, shed moderately, and do not drool excessively. They are highly intelligent, their eagerness to please makes them easy to train; typically they do not bark or howl with frequency. They are very athletic, energetic, and playful, and not hyperactive or territorial. Their sincere devotion and higher intelligence makes them ideal for use as a therapy dog, guide dog, search and rescue dog, and assistance dog for the autistic and handicapped. They are known to excel as K9 dogs in searching for bombs and narcotics, are useful arson dogs, are used in counterfeit detection, and assist in water rescue situations. Because of their extraordinary sense of smell, Labs are often used as a tracking dog and as a cadaver dog.

      Labrador retrievers are utilized as military working dogs because their distinct smelling qualities help locate wounded or deceased service personnel and enemy patrols; they can detect arms, ammunition, bombs, grenades, and detonators. They tend to excel in competitions including show, field, agility, and obedience.

      The Labrador retriever comes in three colors: Black, Yellow (not to be confused with Golden which is a different, yet similar breed), and Brown which is also referred to as Chocolate. Yellow is the more popular Labrador retriever but there is no difference between the three, color aside. The Labrador retriever is a medium to large size dog with an average weight range between 65 to 80 pounds for a male and 55 to 70 pounds for a female. The life expectancy is about 10 -12 years.

      Originally, the Labrador retriever was called St. John's dog (no longer in existence), named after the capital city of Newfoundland off the Atlantic coast of Canada, located near The Labrador Sea. It is believed that the St. John’s dog was bred with the Newfoundland dog and other regional water dogs and they became working dogs to the local fishermen beginning in the 1700’s. Their primary job was to retrieve fish that escaped nets, hooks, and towing lines and to help pull in nets.

      In the early 1800’s, the Earl of Malmesbury and his fellow sportsmen imported a few St. John’s dogs to England. Noticing their good disposition and usefulness, they were to serve as retrievers for hunting on both land and in water. In the 1830’s the breed began to be referred to as Labradors, by the Third Earl of Malmesbury. This same Earl and his English friends are credited with saving the breed from extinction. Around 1880 in Newfoundland, the government had severe restrictions and high taxes on dogs. Families were only allowed to keep one dog and owning a female

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