Shakai is a combination dog and shows it. Her mother was a pure chocolate lab and her father was the neighborhood "Newfie that snuck into the garage," explained Shakai's owner Diane Robertson,"It was an unplanned child." Her most interesting physical distinction is her fur.

On her back, running down it like a stripe is long fur, like you might find on a Newfoundland and elsewhere she has short fur like a labrador retriever.

Now 10 years old, Shakai loves people,"She's a regular social butterfly," explained Robertson.

"She's a double water dog but she's such a social dog she won't go in the water because when we take her to the park, like Magnuson, she has to go around to meet and greet all the people and dogs."

Shakai will go swimming but only if there are no others around. "Otherwise she's too distracted by wanting to say hello to everybody," said Robertson.

Even though she has retriever blood in her, "she's not a fetcher," claimed Robertson, Shakai prefers tug of war.

Shakai's diet is high class dry dog food in the morning and at night she gets raw meat and veggies. "She's a veggie lover. I haven't found a vegetable that she doesn't like," said Robertson."She will pick off the cherry tomatoe's off my plant in the back yard. I come out and I can tell because she has the tomato stains on her head.It's a telltale sign she's been in the tomato plants again."

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