Ellie was lovely, if not a little over weight, but she was really naughty ! She loved to roll in any bit of poo she could find, in fact I think she would search it out lol. Ellie loved laying in the muddiest puddles ever, but take her to the beach, she would run all the way to the sea from the sand dunes and just lay at the waters edge to get her tummy wet, you would think she wasn’t a retriever as she would not swim, even if we tried to coax her/drag her in, she’d just swim back to shore, everyone used to laugh. Another of her lovely tricks was to empty the kitchen bin out. She did this to my daughter, when she was looking after her, she emptied her bin and then put it all on her bed, whilst she was out, then when my daughter came home and shouted at her, Ellie then, threw up all over my daughters feet and wee’d …I think my daughter wasn’t very amused lol.
That being said Ellie was such a lovely girl, she followed us all around the house and just lay at our feet when we watched the tele in the evening. We moved to Sweden whilst we had Ellie, luckily we could take her with us because of the ‘pet passport’ she loved it there, we lived in a house in the middle of a forest and every morning she’d take herself off into the forest for a walk and come back and sit on the verandah waiting for us to open the door and let her in. She was so lovely and gentle and loved our Granchildren and they loved her too. Sadly Ellie died whilst we were in Sweden, of nose cancer, it was so sad and took us at least 4 years before we coud bring ourselves to have another dog, of course it had to be a retreiver !