Lucky Photo

Every so often, I get lucky with an action shot. Employing my trusty but old Canon 1d Mk2 and it's fast (at the time!) 8FPS, I got this while playing with my pup:
I think the ears make the photo.

able123 wrote:
I never met a dog I didn't like unless it was trained to be mean and guard stuff ( like junk yard dogs that are IMO abused by owners ).. and even then I understand why they are so mean to strangers. I just keep my distance then and don't bother them.
It sometimes doesn't even take bad training. It can take no training. My neighbors have a German Shepherd that has caused me no end of grief since they got him. He's very pleasant to humans, but put another male dog anywhere near him and he goes ballistic. My last Lab and I would walk down the road on a regular basis, and the aforementioned Shepherd would launch into a barking tirade, straighten his body out, and charge at my boy. He'd leave his yard and approach us on the road, which is a big no-no, all the while ignoring his master's calls.
He'd stop when I yelled at him, though. A couple of times, I had to catch him by his collar and drag him back to his owner. He's a BIG boy and not as easily man-handled.
Routinely: he'd see my boy sitting outside my house, in my yard, and attack. He'd leave his yard, cross the road, and enter my property hell bent for leather. My Lab was never much for sticking up for himself, prefering instead to be your best friend. The Shepherd would have torn him in half. "STOP!" "GET YOUR FUZZY *** HOME RIGHT NOW!"
He saw my puppy for the first time the other day, and the pattern started all over again. That's just bad juju. While I love all dogs, he's one I could do without.
Your lab pic of puppy made me smile mostly cause of his TAIL ( I could tell it was wagging ) ... unlike your response ( ears ) .. also his paws are pretty big so he will grow to a nice size..
It's a good pic of a happy dog, no question. He loves chasing and retrieving stuff. This is from a couple of weeks ago, and was done with my iPhone's camera. It's not easy trying to participate in a motion picture while you're also filming it, as you'll see...
His breeder mixes English Show and American Field Lab lines together, so the resulting pups are usually tall (American) and stocky (English). He'll crest 100lbs when he's an adult.

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I'll start by saying I have no idea how Windows 8 works but you'r one very lucky person not to have lost your files to a hard drive failure in 10 years. BACK THEM UP. There are so many ways to both do a back up & transfer that we'll need more info to help. DO NOT just transfer them & rely on your new computer to keep on working forever or until the next time you upgrade. Buy at least 1 portable drive to copy them too & use it to copy them to the new computer. If you want to keep it really simple buy a "Click Free" back up drive & let it do the back up.
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