OK, so why a Chocolate Labrador? Good question, and not one I can really answer. I was feeling broody for a new dog as my old labrador, Tosh, was getting very slow on our walks and didn't even look as though she enjoyed them. I love to walk but don't do it unless I have a dog for company. So I started looking at the rehoming labrador site on the internet and started to see the chocolate variety. That was it, I wanted a chocolate labrador!

I knew that I wanted to train the dog, for the obvious reasons first and then, as a hobby it would be lovely to enter tests and trials if I could.

So the hunt began, for a chocolate labrador with a working background! I found some a way away on the other side of the Severn Bridge and with a good working background, I did book one. However, I then found some nearby from a lovely lady called Jane and with a working dad who had a photo on the internet that mellted my heart. That was it! Booked.

Then I waited and I waited. I was so excited that I rememebered wha it was like to be five years old just before Christmas again. Goodness knows what I will be like if any of my children make me a Grandmamma!!

Eventually, on 19th June 2007, I got an email with a photo of my girl!!! She was the only one which saved all the pain of selection! - a good thing!