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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Who’s a happy dog???

Nahla with the king! A bull canvasback.

Mika is here to save the day!

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

Mika gets a little bloody!

Paige Duke and Mika

Echo brings back a mallard.

Mika enjoying the sunset.

Mika looks over Lake Oahe

Mika, that is not dog food.

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

Windsor brings back a goose

The final retrieve of the pheasant season.

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

Finally a way to tire Mika out!

Paul Agranoff’s Ti

Mika and her sister Echo having a little fun.

Mika and Raven the third

Rick Alsen’s 6-month-old “Diesel”

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

Stucker’s 8-year-old lab, Chase.

Mika with a banded wood duck.

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

Tony Crotty’s “Nahla” brings back a goose

Windsor seems to enjoy his blind.

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

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

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

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

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

9-year-old Casey

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

Mika and Buck watch over their work.

Nahla doing some training

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

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