Folks, that is most excellent information! Thank you so much! Thoran, thanks for elaborating on quite a few diff dog types there... wife's a dog trainer and she'll be at the CNE? Cool.
All in all... sounds like the golden retriever is the way to go so far... only bad thing I'm hearing about them is the shedding hair and need for excercise (which should be ok, I have need of more excercise than it does I'm sure)
One more question if y'all don't mind: what's a mutt? A friend of mine told me that if you're looking for a dog with a good personality, look for a mutt....
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