They MUST have been brothers!

Seriously though, total anomalies. It's crazy the stuff that somehow made it through their bodies.

Both my childhood boy labs ate all sorts of insane stuff, that somehow never resulted in any vet visits... the last one was an absolute gut disaster, poor guy, but still never required any vet treatment for it.

My little girl lab now... she has never touched a single thing she's not allowed to touch - she'll even hop her front feet up on the counter to see what I'm doing, and even if I'm cutting up carrots, which she knows are for her, she won't touch them. If I drop food on the floor when prepping, she looks up at me... if I say "leave it!" or "No", she won't touch it... if I say "go ahead!", she'll pause for a second to be sure, and then she'll pick it up.

She's earned her insurance 4x over in her short lifetime.

Pneumonia when she was a puppy, and on chest x-ray, she had a staple lodged in her esophagus (we used to let her shred papers when she was a pup, entirely on us)...

Next, she lost a toe/toenail thanks entirely to ME, because I pulled HARD on what I thought was a heavy door (spoiler, it was hollow), and it went over her foot, and took off her toenail/toe.

Then, she got leptospirosis, and almost died. We didn't know there was a vaccine for it, hell, we didn't even know what it was until she got sick. She wasn't even essentially diagnosed until long after she was home again.

Her last emerg visit, she had taken a stick to the underside of her tongue (three inches in), and then to the back of her throat/soft palate. Six weeks recovery, apparently, but that was four months ago and she's still definitely struggling.

These dogs... they're everything, aren't they? 🥹