Well, I was going to change my avatar to a black lab or yellow lab, but since you lost your black lab and the fact that some people will get annoyed by that, I'll wait, or I just won't.
Besides I still like my chocolate lab picture.
Sorry If my avatar makes you feel worse about losing your dog.
I used to have a golden retriever when I was in second grade, but four months after we got her, she ran away.
We had cats that would dig holes under our fence(believe it or not) and one day she just some how moved the rocks we place there to block the holes and we never saw her again.
She'd be almost 8 now if we still had her.
Oh, and the cats weren't ours, they belonged to someone else.
I haven't had a dog since then, but next Christmas my mom said I could get my
FIRST lab. I don't know what kind of lab I want, but I can't wait to get one.
Oh, and with the avatar thing. I will take everyone here into consideration before I change it, but sometimes I just need a change, so if I do change it, it will most likely always be some kind of lab...maybe a wolf, but just look for the lab.
Again, I'm sorry about your dog.