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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We lost our lab a few years ago to cancer and tried to adopt through the breed rescue groups, but they were reluctant to let us adopt any age dog because we had young children (despite the fact those children lived with a lab their whole lives).  
We ended up finding a great lab through Lucky Dog.  If anything he was a bit younger than we were looking for (people still ask me if he is a puppy and we've had him for 2 years).  He had lived with a foster in the DC area, so they had a pretty good read on his personality.  He has been a great dog, and Lucky Dog was really easy to deal with.[/quote]

21:23 here.  We adopted and fostered through Lucky Dog and also through GRREAT (golden retriever rescue education and training).  If you want a lab mix, Lucky Dog certainly has plenty coming through.  For a pure-bred, you might talk to the Lab Rescue, but we found them difficult to deal with (they would not work with us if we were also looking to adopt through golden rescue, for example).  GRREAT has some dogs who can't be placed in families with children, but this is when a dog has been a stray and they don't know about the dog's history (or if the dog has a history of problems with children).  Otherwise, for us when we fostered for both LDAR and GRREAT, a family with children was desirable, assuming they had realistic expectations for how much time/attention/money a dog required and had room in their lives and schedules for a dog.  Of the dogs we fostered, I would say half went to families with children and half didn't, and it all had to do with the needs and personalities of the dogs.[/quote]

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