Labrador Retriever Forum
I am fortunate that my girls are easy going, relatively non-destructive and semi-obedient. HOWEVER, I have one girl whose good behavior all goes to "hell in a handbasket" when she is pregnant! I know the reason she digs, she wants a den that is safe to have her babies in. Truly I don't need ultrasound, witness relaxin or even palpation...all I have to do is look in my yard for the overgrown gopher holes! 
What I want to know is why the behavior continues until the puppies are 6 weeks old or so. I mean there is a tunnel under my wood violets, a burrow under the hydrangea and a great hole between the hot tub and house, never mind the burrowing to get into the crawl space!! If I didn't know better I would think she has a contract with Home Depot Garden department so I keep having to buy 40lb bags of planting mix! And yes, she has plenty of calcium after birth and toys and attention and playmates! Guess it is a good thing I have a sense of humor!!
Hormones! Oxytocin (among others) and it's feedback on the uterus and the other hormones. If she's still nursing at 6 weeks than that's why it continues through then.
Invest in dump truck load of dirt!
In fact, you know, it might be a good time to put up more fence! An easy way to dig post holes!
Sue
Maybe because she gets attention when she does it?
LOL I think she's digging to china, aka the hell away from you (oops) hahahaha
Well that is a distinct possibility! Lordy, my DH runs to the bottom of the ocean why shouldn't the postnatal girl dig to china!!!
"No, No, NO!!!! I've got the answer. After meeting me last week, she just wants to come be with me. She's trying to find a way to come here!!!!!"
Not what she told me, nope nope nope, not only does she dig, she uses the phone and speaks
TROLLS? Sharlene I thought you told me you were a vertically challenged Christmas elf, not a Troll!!
Susan - NO, NO, NO.
Not a vertically challenged Christmas Elf. Although I am vertically challenged, I am not an Elf....
I'm Mrs. Santa Paws (just ask my dogs!)
PS - Susan, MLL - yes, I know she uses the phone. She called me to tell me about your post. She explained that she was just being nice to you and really can't wait to see me!
Susan
These Labs are just getting too smart. You have an excavator. I have a 4 month old that wants to "digest knowledge", as she keeps eating paperback books, and another that, I guess, wants to be an electrician, since she is totally facinated with electrical cords (unplugged).
Aren't we lucky to have such intelligent animals!
Gail I took two of my girls for a 5 mile jaunt through Colonial Williamsburg this morning and they were enthralled. They loved the sheep (feeling not returned I am afraid) and most definitely would have liked to have taken apart the colonial fruit decorations! Does this mean they are history buffs?? 
Sharlene you are too an ELF! I saw those pointy ears myself!
Denise - join right in. How tall are you???
Susan MLL - how tall are you. I'm only 5'2", but I still believe that to be at least 3" over elf height restrictions.
Just because Fenwyck Susan is personal friends with the giant of beanstalk fame - doesn't make either of us an elf! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Hey there!! Just because I am 5'9" doesn't mean anything, after all I am still the shortest person in my family!! Oh and my nephew Jack...he likes ELVES!!!
That is a great question. Do you think she'll lay one for us?????
It was the "6 geese a laying" that provided the golden egg. After which the Labradors retrieved them all for Christmas DINNER!!!! So there!
HHuuummmpphh so what about the swans? No consideration for them? Personally I will just take the "Lords a leaping" and let you have the rest!!!
Hmmm, I'll take the "beer in a tree" - oops, different version!
LOL where's the golden egg? or is that golden puppy (dressed in black)?
man that sounds like my house Christmas or not Very Cute!!
Gee Susan - 12 dogs of Christmas, is that all you got? You got off easy, how about -
12 piles of puked up sticks (snacks for Santa)
10 chewed up rolls of toilet paper (garland)
9 sutures from being tripped (rush to the gifts)
8 hundred dollars (for surgery to remove garland)
7 hours of bad gas from (eating the stolen turkey)
6 dogs drooling (while you eat Christmas dinner)
5 broken tree limbs (after they played with the tree)
4 sets of pet antlers (for the Christmas card Photo)
3 three hours (trying to take the Card Photo)
2 playing tug-o-war (with your new Christmas scarf)
1 roll of chewed stamps (for mailing those cards)
HAH...see I knew SOMEONE (aka Shar) dressed up their dogs for the holidays! Now I have a written confession!! hehehehe
Yup, she is a "closet holiday puppy dresser" and she has just been outted!!
Alas Susan - you are incorrect. I am not a "closet" dog dresser. My husband is a sweet heart. He lets the dogs sleep in our bed. He helps bathe and groom. He trains them to retrieve to hand. The only thing has has asked of me - well DEMANDED really - NO DOG CLOTHES!
Although at a recent fun match, we had a costume contest. I dressed "his" girl - my chocolate lab Mocha - up as a smore and made him take her in the ring! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Shar, she's really talking about herself and blaming you. She already knows I dont dress the doggies up
lol
Just remember Shar the real reason it is snowing in your neck of VA is that Elves like snow!!
