Meet Miles

Miles is our new resident stud. He was adopted from an all-white litter and lineage. He is a delightful playful boy, grown up but still mostly puppy at heart. I have never met a dog who loved his toys so much. He might just retrieve all day and night if we wanted to keep at it that long. Sometimes he cannot make up his mind about which toy to play with and tries really hard to carry several at once. Of course, all puppies have their naughty moments. But this guy is just so adorable and endearing. When caught with something he sneaked out of the trash, he looks up with his expressive “eyebrows” and nobody can be mad at him. I have been known to say he is the cutest naughty boy ever. Of course, the naughty episodes are mostly behind us now.

Have I mentioned how much Miles loves to play? He found the elbow joint of a PVC pipe in my husband’s pile behind our shop building, and brought it to me to retrieve. The easiest way for him to hold it… made him look like an elephant. He keeps us in stitches with his hilarious antics. He enjoys hide-and-seek (we hide and then call him, and he comes to find us) and complex retrieves. In that game, he sits while I toss three of his toys in different directions. Then I send him toward one, and he brings them back one by one. Only sometimes, he tries to hold them all at once. If nobody can play right then, Miles is ok with entertaining himself. He may even play fetch, tossing his toy in the air and catching it, or squeaking it. My seven-year-old has complained that I buy more toys for Miles than I do for him!

Miles especially loves his buddy Naia and currently misses her while she is spending most of her time with her puppies. He takes a long walk with Rich every afternoon and most mornings, or even runs behind the four-wheeler in a pasture nearby. He gets toys one at a time out of his basket on top of his crate and brings them to us to play. But he will sure be glad when Naia is more available again. Oh, and have I mentioned how SOFT he is?

Miles’ favorite way to spend the evening has not changed since he was a puppy. He just takes up more space now. He is medium-small for a male lab at 65 lbs. He is an English lab, not as stocky as some, but more stocky than a typical American lab. Our girls are all American, so there body style of their puppies should be a really nice, moderate conformation.