r/LabradorRetrievers

Hi,

My 7 month old is crated at night and it’s usually fine. She’s great about going in, she’s quiet for the most part. Problem is, middle of the night she starts scratching the bottom of her crate. She’s currently sleeping without a pad because she just eats those and tears them up. She gets plenty of enrichment, outside time, walks, play, food, treats, and training. I’m not sure if this is a lab thing, or maybe she’s itchy, or having a nightmare, but she doesn’t make any vocalization while doing it. She potty’s right before bed and right when we wake. She’s probably only crated at night for about 6-8 hours. Any advice? Thanks!

Sully is out of surgery. The vet said he’s doubtful he was able to get clean margins because of the size and location of the tumor, but he’s hopeful. We’ll know in the next week or so how to proceed.

The good news: the tumor is off and his ultrasound showed that all of his organs looked normal!

I’m feeling a lot better today than when I first posted about this last week. THANK YOU to everyone who responded on my post or messaged me to check in on him. You guys are a wonderful group of people 💕

Hi there, everyone. New here.

So this is Hollie, and currently, she drops fur like crazy. She's 4 years old, and the amount far exceeds all previous seasonal sheddings. The pile in the picture comes from our daily brushing and yanking/pinching. This has been going on for more than three weeks and I'm frankly quite tired of it, although she's not (loving the extra care and attention, of course). Anyway, sharing the experience. Ignore the mess in the background and have a beautiful day.

Gus 💛 Kiki 🤎 Beebo 🖤

Hi everyone! I’ve been lurking this subreddit for a while, labradors are so cute I absolutely adore them.

Anyways I have a situation and I’m hoping maybe someone has some advice or insight. It’s kind of silly but my 1 yea old female lab is absolutely refusing to go down the last stair. She goes up and down the rest of the stairs just fine but that last one to go to the kitchen she just does not want to. We call her, show her treats, encourage hair and she whines and barks but doesn’t want to. It seems like she’s scared? She DOES eventually do it after we serve food and I guess she gets hungry or after maybe 30-40 minutes .

I’m confused because for the rest of the stairs she seems fine, so I guess any joint pain could be ruled out? That last one she hesitates and then jumps like something’s gonna happen (like it’s boobie trapped and the house is gonna blow up 😭😭)

Anyone have any idea what it could be?? I’m so confused.

(Picture is unrelated lol)

Our sweet Brisa - certified service dog

You have to look really close, but you can see my chocolate lab Otis outside and is hunting last night and you know what he got me was a mole, a giant rat and a possum lol he was so proud of himself and I told my husband I am not picking that dead stuff up. At least he didn’t try to eat it like bunny foo foo

My two big boys lounging together. I’m still trying to find my third one.

Ziggy Starpaws. Gotcha day

Almost lost these two to an unknown parasite. They have our hearts now the veterinary hospital has our $6k. So happy they pulled through.

I wanted to post this beauty, Xenia. She is smart, active, fun, loyal, loving, amiable, and amazing. In her two years of life, she has overcome being rehomed multiple times before her first birthday, roller-coaster rides with her health, and more. Yet, she shows up with a positive attitude, ready to play, eager to obey, teaching me that resilience is possible in even the hardest situations.

Clover and Barry 🐶🐶🐾

Hi all, looking for a new home for this girl. She is 10 months old and an akc lab. She is house trained and crate trained. I have some other unfortunate obligations and can no longer keep her. Please let me know if you are interested!

My sweet Sully has had a golf ball sized mass dangling from his hind leg for a couple of years. It looked and felt like a lipoma so our vet never felt a fine needle aspirate was necessary. This past weekend, that little golf ball sized mass grew to about three times its size and looked very stressed.

I worried all weekend and called the vet first thing Monday morning. Long story short, after several visits over the past three days, the vet cautiously believes it to be a mast cell tumor but is not completely ruling out sarcoma.

The surgeon at the vet’s office wants to try to reduce the size of the tumor (which is situated behind the dangling mass) in order to lessen how aggressive they need to be in surgery. He’s trying to avoid amputating his leg. So he gave him a steroid injection, put him on antibiotics and Benadryl (something about reducing the histamines), and wants to see where he is in about 3 weeks.

The past few days have been awful.

If you have a cancer success story, would you mind sharing it with me? I really need some hope to hang on to right now.

Photo of my heart for tax

She’s a pretty active dog just seems more round than others I see, she’s 10 months and weighs 57 pounds. Any advice and input is appreciated.