No offense to any other dogs out there, as we’re dog people-we like them all.  There’s just something about Labs that we can all learn from.  They work hard, they aim to please and they will do it until they fall over from exhaustion.  Here are some of our favorite lab photos from the last couple of years.

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Even if they lost to the Packers, I’m still happy they made it to the playoffs.

Mika gets a little bloody!

Mika and her Christmas present: A Superhero Cape! Even if she looks more like a ninja now.

Mika sez “This ice fishing thing is hard work.”

Paige Duke and Mika

Can you believe these two dogs caught their limit of crappies and a bonus walleye?

Mika is here to save the day!

Finally a way to tire Mika out!

Echo brings back a mallard.

You may not like hunting in the snow, but Mika does!

Windsor brings back a goose

Paul Agranoff’s Ti

gimme the tennis ball gimme the tennis ball gimme the tennis ball!

Stucker’s 8-year-old lab, Chase.

9-year-old Casey

Mika and Raven the third

This young girl is about to unleash the beast at Game Fair!

Mika and Buck watch over their work.

Who’s a happy dog???

Windsor seems to enjoy his blind.

The final retrieve of the pheasant season.

Mika and her sister Echo having a little fun.

Chuck Ellingson’s 9-year-old “Morgan” with a snow goose.

Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?

Mika enjoying the sunset.

Mika, that is not dog food.

Rick Alsen’s 6-month-old “Diesel”

Mika with a banded wood duck.

Nahla with the king! A bull canvasback.

Pete Anderson’s “Danni” brings back a woodie.

Wade Amundson and “Echo” watch for birds. Or at least Echo is.

Tony Crotty’s “Nahla” brings back a goose

Avery and Bryce Hammerschmidt III with Bryce’s first duck.

Mika get’s ready to pick up one of the mallards that came back

Mika looks over Lake Oahe

Nahla doing some training