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Billie would be The Beastie Boys, as her theme song is "you gotta fight, for your right.. to paaaaaarrrtty!". She's a 12 month old Lab

Awwwwww. I'm melting!

Speaking of Billie... we need more Billie photos in the lab thread. :D Haha! Yeah, gotta get the camera out this weekend. She's snoring loudly as I type.

I got my baby from Majoley (Southern highlands NSW), they are on Dogzonline. We were actually looking for a black, but Billie came along and we snapped her up, she is awesome. Great dog, great temperament and very smart. So much for the experts who told me chocolate labs are crazy :D Good luck.

Isn't she cute? She was so roly poly when we first got her. I'll shoot you the name now. Here's a nicer one of her, more recent. I love this photo even though it's just shot on my phone.

Here is my choccie baby Billie, first piccie at 8 weeks and now just over 5 months old. I'm a newbie dog owner, and she has been a dream puppy so far. No crying at night, very laid back and learns very quickly. She's getting bigger by the day, we do a lot of training together. The thing I am finding the hardest is that I'm always worrying about her, she so much as hiccups and I'm freaking out. I hate leaving her to go to work. God help me when I have to get her desexed, I'm going to be a wreck!!!!

Aside from being embarrassing, small dogs who punch above their weight can have short lifespans. It's embarrassing that I haven't trained her properly.. and it's very worrisome because as I said, if these dogs weren't on leads, it would have been disaster. There's no way I would take her to an off leash area like this. I walk her with a harness because she is a brachy breed and it was recommended, but I am happy to try the check chain and actually know how to use one (was shown by a trainer a few years ago). So glad to hear to you wouldn't risk having her off lead in these situations. I had a very overexcited Lab (she just over 5 months) to contend with when two Pomeranians were let out of the car by their owner and then proceeded to run around the park (unleashed) barking at all and sundry and then bailed us up. Billie was on lead in an on lead area. I waited patiently for the owner to appear and grab her dog, but all I got was a filthy look from the owner and disinterested call to her dog that wasn't listening! Argh! I was just flabbergasted that this woman would let her dogs behave this way, and given that there are plenty of other bigger dogs around, it's so dangerous. There is no way I would let Billie run around at will like that. I too am working with my dog to get her to calm down around other dogs, and not see every dog as an opportunity to play. It's a hard one, but persistence I guess. I'm doing a distance course with K9Pro and Steve is putting together an exercise for me to address this very thing! Good luck with your little girl.

I feel your pain. My parents had two foxies that they spoilt rotten. They overfed them so badly, they were like barrels with legs. Nothing could be said to get them to stop feeding them anything and everything. I think they felt as though they were loving them by constantly giving them food whenever they looked sideways at the fridge. They are living with my sister now so they are back to normal weight and much happier. Not sure what you can do here, hopefully the vet was able to talk some sense into your mum.

We are currently at puppy school run by DogLogic at Alexandria and its very good. Very calm class, learn a lot and good off lead socialisation, not just free for alls! They run these at PetBarn in Alexandria. http://www.doglogic.com.au/dog-trainer/puppy-training.html