Could not have dogs at my last residence as it was a road death trap and I promised the kids when we moved I would get them a dog. I come from a German Shepherd family and my wife comes from a Black Lab family, cannot be chocolate or yellow must be black. We went back and forth about it and ended up with one of each. So for Easter we got the new babies. I forgot how fun they are and how they are into everything and chew on everything. I always had a mutt and Shepherd as a youth and it is fun to have them around again.