Technically we had a black Lab puppy when I was a kid, but it was hyper, untrained and stayed in the backyard all the time because it would knock me and my brother over. (Don't get on me about outside dogs--I was four and my parents had always had outdoor dogs).
My first real[/] dog was a Lab/Doberman or Black and Tan Coonhound mix named Meisha. She died of cancer a few years ago. And now there's the Idiot Wonder, Sawyer, the almost two-year old Australian Shepherd. He's circling my rat cage trying to get them to play through the bars and Rae just keeps trying to bite his nose again. Tabasco's just chilling with her pumpkin seeds.