Old dogs still want to retrieve

[Goosemaster]

Isn't it wonderful that elderly bird dogs still want to retrieve? My 12 year old yellow lab still hunts with me,and still wants to retrieve birds.My young lab is retrieving well again,but I may have to take my old dog out without young dog.

 

[revs2ninegrand]

Isn't it wonderful that elderly bird dogs still want to retrieve? My 12 year old yellow lab still hunts with me,and still wants to retrieve birds.My young lab is retrieving well again,but I may have to take my old dog out without young dog.

I always find it's the humans that have to force the dogs to slow down for their own good, I think dogs would happily run themselves to death

 

[Glock]

The oldest amigo is 15 and still wants to play the game. Her problem is that her mind tells her she is still young but her body complains a lot the next day.

 

[Goosemaster]

I always find it's the humans that have to force the dogs to slow down for their own good, I think dogs would happily run themselves to death

That's very true, my older 12-year-old lab, came close to a 10-ft drop off by a creek, and I had to grab her to make sure that she wouldn't fall off that thing and she would have been killed. Probably I. It was very scary but she still wants to go hunting and generally she just tags along behind me. It's difficult having a 12-year-old and a 2-year-old Labrador retriever. If you have two people to sort of own them, it really helps a lot.