"Kathleen" wrote in message
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Mac Cool wrote:

Alison:


What is she crossed with by the way?


I would love to know. She looks very labish, but she has some white,
with a little black on her muzzle and tail. The black has darkened since
this picture. Her tail curls over her back.

http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/...ym_ac887a7.jpg

The vet believes she is lab/border collie and the markings do resemble a
border collie but I don't remember collie's tails curling over their
backs. Her hair is very short and bristly; and I haven't seen any
herding instinct at all. Her activity level is low-med, characterized by
short bursts of energy followed by long naps. Her behavior is very
lab-like.

She's cute but I don't see any BC in that dog. Every BC X Lab mix I've
ever seen was black and white and the tail was carried low in a J-shape.
Expression of herding behaviors varies even among full BCs but usually
there's some...

There was a lab, "Snake", in our neighborhood who produced three large
litters with a local BC. The pups were all over the chart,
appearance-wise. All were bright, more or less good-natured and
extremely active. And a substantial percent of them combined the BCs OCD
tendencies with the Lab's pica. Enough of them were drywall-eating
terrors when left unsupervised that the mention of that particular mix
still gives me serious pause.

Snake's babies were legendary throughout the county for feats including
gnawing to freedom through the exterior wall of a laundry room, consuming
an entire 20 lb frozen turkey, ripping off and eating the rubber gasket
from a two-car garage door, demolishing a cedar privacy fence (but
remaining in the yard), and consuming an entire pair of levis, zipper and
all (that one required surgery).

She looks to be a reincarnation of Marley! Uh-oh!

Paul and Muttley