Introducing Ms. Lady Bing a.k.a. Dainty Danger Dog
It’s time to meet the dogs of Skates with Dogs. After all, without dogs…well…you can’t skate with dogs if you don’t have any dogs!
- Lady Bing & her labour of love
Each year, the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy is awarded to the NHL player “adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability.” The trophy was donated by Lady Byng in 1925.
Looking for an athletic, yet sportsmanly dog? Look no further than Ms. LAdy Bing. This is Lady Bing (feel free to search to find out why the spelling has been changed), focused on what she was bred to do: fetch tennis balls.
Lady is a 2 year old black labrador retriever, who was surrended to a shelter, despite being one of the sweetest and most loving dogs the family had ever met. Her crime? She is “incompatible with livestock.” Apparently, Ms. Bing, a field lab – who acts like she came from a hunting breeder - did *not* get the memo that she was supposed to befriend the neighborhood goats and chickens. Or maybe she was a little bit TOO friendly. We’ll never know.
Their loss was our gain. Thanks to the large rescue umbrella of labs4rescue, Lady charmed her way into my home and family. Lady is a quintissential example of black dog syndrome - an absolutely awesome physical specimen, a dog with beautiful house manners & the sweetest disposition that was just waiting to be adopted. It took all of 6 months for Lady to go from new adoptee to passing the TDI certification test to be a therapy dog.
Lady loves to run and explore the neighborhood alongside me as I skate, but more than anything she loves to swim and retrieve in the water.
