I realize that when you choose a dog you choose characteristics of the breed. With Zeke here, the trash is up, because no matter how many times that dog is told "NO!" he WILL get into the trash. He is a food-seeking missile. I mentioned to a friend with 2 labs that, despite his having been neutered, he still has the balls to go after a lot of out-of-reach food. She laughed and said that to solve that problem we'd have to cut off the other end of the dog. "Counter surfing" is a term that was invented for Labrador retrievers. :-D

SRS