Black labs and all retrievers are on my short list for wonderful pets.
This is Reggie - named by her first family who's college was the Rajun Cajuns and they called her Rajun.
She's 14.5 now (she's been here 12 years) and has slowed down physically and eye sight and hearing but still catches food and defends herself from the other two younsters (basset Jenni and Walker coon dawg Walker) in the house.
She's quite old for a lab and has lotsa gray hairs which used to be black. We got Jenni when we thought Reggie was in her last year, but the other dawgs have caused her to be much more active and I believe that has lengthened her life and quality thereof.
She's the "queen" of the house fa sur...