Labrador Retriever Puppy Pictures and Story

I'm starting this lens May 21, 2010 because our Labrador Retriever Josie had a litter of eight puppies and I just had to find a place to post the cute puppy pictures.

And I posted several pictures of the puppies in their first year of life. Now these puppies are nearly two and one of them had puppies of her own.

From time to time I'll go back through these pictures and find a gem I missed, including this photo of our Ridiculously Photogenic Puppy

and Napping Between Puppy Delivery

So here is one picture just BEFORE the puppies arrived of Josie, waiting anxiously, panting in the whelping box. Josie's puppies came about 5 days ahead of schedule, so the puppy (whelping) box had actually JUST been completed and moved into place when her water broke about 1 AM. The first puppy arrived around 6 AM. The picture below is late in the morning when most, but not all of the puppies have arrived. Josie is catching a recovery nap.

Around two weeks old the puppies started to sit up

And Josie was more likely to leave the box for longer intervals. But it was always really clear that the puppies LOVED their Mama and she loved them too. Here one little yellow puppy says hello to Mom while her brothers and sisters finish their meal.

When the puppies could walk better, we took them all out of the box. Initially we had them in our tile entryway on an old piece of carpet. This made cleanups easy. This is also where we would feed them their first meals. We had them eating separately at first to check how much food each puppy ate.

Here Josie grabs the Kong while puppies give chase.

I almost forgot, I chose some of the best of our Lab puppies at play video footage and posted it on YouTube. Enjoy!

It was a very bittersweet to sell these puppies who we had come to love. But we knew they were ready for families to dote on each of them individually AND we could see that we couldn't housebreak or care for eight puppies properly. We had to decide which puppy to keep and then find good and loving homes for each of them. Here is are some of the pictures that I put in the classified ad.

We have heard from almost all the new owners since about what wonderful dogs these are and so that is where I will end my story.

Yes, we've all heard of the "ridiculously photogenic man" -- but he's got nothing on this Labrador Retriever puppy if you ask me.

Even if you aren't able to own a Labrador Puppy, you can still have a picture

Besides, only in pictures does a puppy stay small!

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Here are two brothers from this litter who were best buddies. Wouldn't it be nice if people of different colors were so totally color-blind in their love, as these puppies are?

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That's where I bought the yellow Labrador Retriever puppy calendar you see here.

The new owners of our puppies were so pleased and proud of the puppies, that several sent me pictures. I think they also sensed how much we adored the puppies and how hard it was to give them up and so we really liked to see them in their new homes, well-loved and adorable as ever. This picture is of the lightest-colored puppy when he was 2 - 3 months old.

If you love dogs, you'll love this book.

Lovable Yellow Male Labrador Puppy

Here is the puppy we kept, age 4-5 months old.

He looks like he is smiling, doesn't he?

He is the happiest dog I've ever known. Of course he's had a lot to be happy about.

And he still plays with his Mama every day

and I mean his actual biological dog mother, not me.

So this puppy was our keeper puppy. But, if you are looking for a Lab puppy for sale, here is a website dedicated to Labrador Puppies for Sale. Can you believe it? A word of warning though.... don't go there unless you think you do want a Labrador puppy, otherwise the cute pictures could give you puppy-fever.

This was one of the yellow females at her new home, age 2 - 3 months. This was our puppy who LOVED the water. As luck would have it, she went to a home with a pool. Here she is below a beach chair.

Here are some cute Labrador puppy pictures that aren't our puppies.

And you may want to consider a Labrador Puppy Picture Calendar