[NAGDU] Crosses

[Danielle Sykora]

Crosses can have any combination of lab and golden traits.  They aren’t like their own breed or anything of course, just a product of the two parent breeds. Retrievers in general tend to be mouthy dogs that like to chew and hold things, but the goldens tend to chew more in my experience. Likewise, labs tend to scavenge more. Honestly, I think it is just a coincidence that the two crosses you know  tend to be chewers. It can be more common in younger more immature dogs and The more intelligent city dogs who tend to cause more  mischief in general . Also dogs can lose a little bit of appropriate house behavior living in a kennel for several months simply because they just don’t have the same experiences.  
Personally, I had one cross who tended to chew things she wasn’t supposed to, but at least half the problem was her not getting enough exercise. My other cross will never chew anything inappropriate and really doesn’t like to chew in general, but will go to great lengths to steal food. Every dog has something we wish they wouldn’t do, whether it is chewing, scavenging, jumping on people, etc.  



Danielle Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 5, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Susan Jones via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I had a lab who was not a cross, and she was my very worst chewer.
> I could never leave her home alone without being in her crate, even when she
> got older, due to her chewing.
> Like your cross, she did get better over time, but vigilance was always
> necessary.
> 
> Susan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> via NAGDU
> Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 10:49 AM
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> Cc: Tracy Carcione
> Subject: [NAGDU] Crosses
> 
> Krokus is a lab/golden cross.  He was quite young when I got him, and did
> his best to chew up as many of my possessions as he could.  If I tried to
> put things out of his reach, he'd find something to climb on to get at
> stuff. I was *not happy.
> I just talked to a friend who recently got a cross and is having a very
> similar problem.  Is this a cross thing?
> Krokus is my seventh guide dog, and I never had such a chewer before, but
> I never had a cross before, either.  It's really not something I want to
> deal with.  He eventually grew out of it, mostly, but getting to this
> stage was not fun.  Well, great fun for him, none for me.
> If it's a cross thing, I'll say next time I don't want one, even if I have
> to wait, as there are so many of the crosses now.
> Tracy
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