The newest addition to my pack of labs, Ranger will be a year old in a few weeks.



The pack. Left to right, TC’s Greenseer Raven (Raven 4 years old), Ludwig’s Boomerang Ridge Hunter (Boomer 11 years old) and Kylie’s Red Ryder Ranger (Ranger 11 months old). My granddaughter named him. LOL



Ranger and Boomer relaxing.



Raven and Ranger ready for their morning exercise.

That's a good looking crew.

Lugnut must have an old Kirby ...to suck up all that hair
..lol
Don't ask me how I know this

Quite the gang you got there!

Nice looking dogs. My sons lab is expecting real soon so there will be puppies again!

Looking good! They must keep you busy.

Good looking labs. Real good looking. That Ranger dog looks like he will go through stuff rather then go around.

good looking lab

Great looking boys!

Nice dogs. Now you need a chocolate.

Beautiful dogs. My favorite was a big yellow lab that could breast a goose. Named him Bill Tyler. Lived to be 14. Last hunt he layed in the canoe and watched.

That brown one Ranger on that group photo looks confused that expression on his face looks like he’s not sure what’s going on

Priceless

I’m hoping Skippy. He showed a lot of promise last season, started doing a pretty good job of making retrieves, but he’s still trying to figure out the part about finding and flushing them.



He hunts with Raven and that is helping him learn the game.

Boomer, the yellow lab was a savage hunter. That dog had more prey drive than any I’ve ever owned. It was rare that I took him out where he didn’t hunt himself bloody just searching for birds. If he got a whiff of one, he was like a heat seeking missile and nothing was stopping him from flushing it.

He was only four months old when he figured out the game, that’s the youngest I’ve ever had any dog figure it out.



He got nailed by porcupines twice while grouse hunting and it didn’t even phase him. He was mad because I took him back to the truck early to get the quills out of him, he wanted to keep hunting.





He retired two seasons ago when he was only nine years old, I think he just wore himself out early from hunting so hard.

I was a bit worried about Raven, the black lab. She was a bit of a prima donna while hunting with Boomer. He’d be in the thick stuff, hunting himself bloody and she’d get a few cockleburs on her butt and come out of the brush to preen herself. LOL

But she’s really stepped up her game since Boomer retired. She’s not the savage hunter he was, but I doubt I’ll ever have another dog like that.

She’s a great retriever, too, she lives for the retrieve. She delivers everything I knock down to hand.

He’s had that goofy look on his face since he’s been a pup. I tell everybody I think he has autism and that is his “autism face.” LOL

He’s actually a pretty smart dog, he just looks like he’s not.

O I didn’t say dumb but confused and trying to figure out what’s happening, my last old hound often had a similar look and he was literally the smartest dog I have ever seen period, as he got older he figured out how to work door knobs, latches open sliding doors and how to unwrap his tie out chain when he got wrapped around a pole or tree

God I miss that dog he was definitely a character

What I’m saying is be prepared he’s figuring things out and is likely to surprise you down the road

All good looking dogs! Labs Rock!!