Smokey + Repost

After we lost Blue this summer to cancer we decided to get another pup.  This is our rescue pup Smokey, a Labrador mix who acts like a terrier but certainly has the food obsession of a Lab.  He won't retrieve but loves playing tug-of-war with his best buddy Nitro (a black Lab pup about the same age in our town house complex). Smokey came up from Alabama to Mary's Dogs Adoption and rescue in NH with two of his brothers, John and Paul (Smokey's rescue name was George..... and yes there is a forth dog Ringo, who stayed behind in AL with the woman who found them).   Fantastic dog.  We renamed him Smokey because of his yellow eyes and general coloring.  Our son was also working on a fuels crew in Idaho this past fire season so it just fit the moment.  I can't help wondering what's the story behind the Beatle dogs abandonment, adventures in the wilds of Alabama, and subsequent rescue. He definitely had some training since he was 100% house broken from day one when we adopted him (six months old).