Had no dogs for 4 years. Neighbor calls, want a free lab puppy? Sure, the kids are 9 & 10 now and need some dogs in their life. Lets go look at this puppy, which my daughters have decided we're adopting, before we've even seen it. He was a few weeks old, separated way too early.
... labrador?
He also came with free parvo. So $2500 in vet bills later he got through that and... labrador? with a white chest? ... got the Doggy DNA test done.
Pitbull, Labrador, Husky, German, Belgian, Dane, Weimarner, and residual dog dna.. feels accurate, he's got traits of all of them.
Then we ended up with my brother in law's old black lab while he was in the hospital for 4 months.
The black lab was headed home (so I thought), so using knowledge imparted to me by Toad many moons ago on FW, I got a real lab. She's kind of an asshole, but has all the paperwork to back it up and all of the hunting behaviors I was wanting in a dog. Thanks again for that one Toad!