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Tela. A lunk of a dog. Our chocolate Labrador Leaver.
I think I have a post in here with her and our 2 beagles. Sadly the beagles have passed. The male beagle was 15 when he went and the female was 16. The female raised the lab since puppiehood and was like a surrogate mother. Tela took her passing very hard.
We decided to get another dog, but could not commit to a full fledged puppy at this time in our life, so we opted to get a rescue from the shelter.
We found a lab pit mix that had been in the shelter for around 5 weeks. She had been living on the streets for a while beforehand, and was brought in only after she had been hit by a car. Her rear legs were never set properly and healed. She can get around just find and can run with the best of them, but her gait is unique, and if she over does herself she feels it at night.
In addition to her broken leg, she also has a chunk missing in her one ear, a broken off canine tooth, a broken tail tip that healed with a 90 degree bend, several battle scars and was emaciated (shelter said she wouldn’t eat much) and had a raging ear infection. My wife thought I was crazy when I told her this was the dog.
It cost a couple thousand in vet bills to get her to where she is today, but you could not ask for a better family dog. The 2 labs are all but inseparable, and the new lab, Jasmine has taken to her new job of “overwatch” like a champ. She patrols all the windows in the house looking for signs of nefarious activities in and around the neighborhood. When not crashed out on her dog couch, she is sure to be either on the window seat or the arm chair next to the window making sure no ne’er do wells are afoot on the premises.
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