Omaka Springs SB, 2002

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I love black lab retrievers and goldens. The exuberant love for life is one of their sterling traits. And they usually are blessed with calm where it counts (patience with tugging fists on toddlers, tolerance of feisty cats, willing to lie down and be quiet as a seeing eye dog, etc.) However, we never trained our golden retrievers as hunting dogs and they were frightened by sudden loud noises such as firecrackers. One was spooked by a lit jack o' lantern. Halloween and 4th of July bring back bittersweet memories of Holly and Duffy.