Is anyone else's lab a complete DOOFUS?

[Frivian]

The best one word description for my dear sweet lab is definitely “doofus”. She is awesome, a good dog through and through. But she is also hilariously dumb/silly sometimes. Especially when there are other dogs involved. Last weekend I was dropping her off at the pet sitter’s house for the weekend and there were a few other dogs there. While I’m standing there chatting with the pet sitter, she goes from dog to dog (all of whom are just chilling, standing there nicely) and grovels in front of each one, licking their faces, then leaping up to play and getting down in a play stance. They all ignored her antics but she just couldn’t help herself.

She’s also afraid of things floating in the water. She loves to wade into the river near our house but if we throw her a stick or something to fetch, she’ll jump away from it like a horse spooking at a plastic bag. She’s a doof.

[Laurierace]

Pretty sure being a doofus is a requirement.

[LexInVA]

I’ve never met a Lab that wasn’t a Doofus McGoofus.

[Field_of_Dreams_Mini]

My Forrest wasn’t a doofus. Quite the gentleman, in fact. It was amazing. Miss that boy… sniff

Now, my new puppy- she’s silly. Probably will grow up to be a doofus!

[Preposterous_Ponies]

Fact: If you look up Doofus in the dictionary, it’s just a picture of a lab. And that’s why they are awesome.

[Frivian]

[QUOTE=Preposterous Ponies!;7773465]
Fact: If you look up Doofus in the dictionary, it’s just a picture of a lab. And that’s why they are awesome.[/QUOTE]

Yes!!!

[fourmares]

Mine is 10 years old. We got her last year. A week ago she must have noticed the pomegranates on the tree… I looked outside andI wondered where she had found a red rubber ball. And then I looked at the tree… not one pomegranate left. On closer inspection, unharmed pomegranates all over the yard. (She’s very soft mouthed)

[Bedazzle]

Oh gosh now you have me missing my childhood labs - Amos and Dakota. The best friends a girl could ever have!

[bits619]

I believe if my lab had slightly more energy than a geriatric goldfish, she’d too be a doofus I have probably the laziest Labrador known to mankind. We’ve had her since she was about three so there’s a chance she was unbelievably wild and silly as a puppy and just used up her lifetime supply of Doof in her early years.

Now our weimaraner (and weim fosters)… Talk about DOOFY.

[boosma47]

Doofy, for sure! Buoy is 7 and is incredibly brave going into water, persistent tracking a lost ball, smart and somewhat over eager. OTOH, it takes three technicians to clip her nails, you can’t pick a random tick of flea off her without her whirling about with eyes bugging out of her head, she quakes at the idea of a hose bath and is almost impossible to treat for cuts, dirty ears etc And the sight of a distant electric fence, and she’s run the opposite way.
Now, I’ve had her since she was 6 weeks. She did run into an electric fence once, so that I understand, poor baby, but has never been traumatized in the other areas.
She is sweet and affectionate as all get out, but doesn’t like cuddling.
Did I mention, I adore my doofus yellow lab!

[french_fry]

It’s a breed requirement.

(I had two labs growing up and miss them both every day!)

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

Mine’s actually NAMED Doofus! (It’s a lot better than what I was going to call him, trust me.)

He refuses to play in water – hates it, in fact – but never met a dead animal he didn’t want to bring home and add to his collection in the corner of the porch, under his dog bed. God knows what the UPS and FedEx people think. It gets cleaned out regularly (when I figure out he’s brought more home), and he sulks and gives me very recriminating looks. Then he goes out and gets more.