Comments on: Pet blogging

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:36:51 +0000

You’ll have to wait till he’s grown for the ‘friendly optional’ dog walks. Right now he’s such a cutey.

By: Greg van Eekhout

Greg van Eekhout — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:13:40 +0000

Oh, damn, that is one sweet-looking puppy.

By: Kristine Smith

Kristine Smith — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:20:29 +0000

He’s sooo cute.

I have two lab mixes, and folks give King, the bigger guy, a very wide berth. He has shepherd coloring mixed in with his black lab, and folks see the brindle with the black and assume he’s a Rottie mix.

If he’s anything like my guyz, Fenrir will eat part of the sun and bury the rest, preferably under a favorite flowering shrub. Then jump on you with muddy paws.

By: Catherine Shaffer

Catherine Shaffer — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:30:18 +0000

Awww..I’m afraid I find labs universally inviting, but I always observe good dog ettiquette and ask before making friends, even if it’s a tiny dog. The exception is if it looks like the dog is very very eager to meet me and the owners are not making a lot of effort to stop him.

No one ever pets my dog without asking permission. She’s very intimidating. The darnedest thing, though, is that everyone adores her, too. She’s a total kid magnet (actually, kids sometimes do pet without asking, but most of them know enough to ask). She is a 100 pound English Mastiff. (aka, she’s very petite for her breed) She’s also made it to 10.5 years in great health, so now I’m a big fan of the “teacup mastiff” dog for its superior longevity. Nala is an awesome guard dog. Here in Ann Arbor, we have a significant population of New York transplants, and the atmosphere is a strange mix of midwest “nice” and “friendly optional.” I find it fairly comfortable.

Congrats on the puppy! May God give you patience for all the shoes you are about to have chewed up.

By: Lisa Mantchev

Lisa Mantchev — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:51:03 +0000

We’ve had two Huskies (one still with us) and my mom had a lab/Husky cross. The copious amounts of hair he sheds will fill in any holes he digs, I promise. *G* What a sweetheart.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:36:09 +0000

Fenrir?

GLORIOUS NAME FOR A DOG.

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:52:10 +0000

Cool name for a dog. Hopefully he’ll grow into it. Of course, now you need to practice saying, “Is he friendly? Well, he hasn’t bit anybody I didn’t want him to for weeks now, so I think he’s over that.” ‘Cause you need to say it with a straight face or they won’t believe you.

By: Mark Terry

Mark Terry — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:10:32 +0000

I’ve got a chocolate lab-mix named Frodo, otherwise dubbed “the office manager.” Like most supervisors, he’s superfluous and spends his time sleeping on the couch, in a chair or on the futon in my office, or, lately, he’s too damned lazy to get out of bed and after his morning walk returns there. Luckily, unlike most of my previous supervisors, he doesn’t feel the need for “line of sight supervision.” As long as he’s well-stocked in Iams, water and regular w-a-l-k’s, he feels I can do my job without him nagging me.

By: Oliver Dale

Oliver Dale — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:50:20 +0000

I’m with Emma. That is the coolest damn name for a dog.

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:45:53 +0000

I want an idea of what to expect from the husky in him and you’re the first site that came up when I searched for lab/”husky mix traits”! Funny!