Here's Oli !
Several of you have met Oliver!
Oliver is about about 3 years old and we've had him since he was 5 weeks old and 3 pounds!
His breed is certified Coconut Retriever! We got him on the island of St. Thomas and raised him on the island of St.Croix.
An auto mechanic with an outside shop under a car-port with a dirt floor had a litter of pups. We were walking by one day, stopped to oogle over the cute puppies and he offered us one! We asked for one of the short haired males and he said to come back tomorrow. The next day he presented us with our pup who we quickly named Oliver aftet the color of his olive eyes. Oliver had been given away at 3 weeks of age and had not been fed for a week! The mechanic actually went and took the dog away from the people he had originally gifted him to and passed him on to us since he figured we would take proper care.
Oliver was given to us with a full coat of fleas and two types of stomache worms! The local vet did all the recovery work pro-bono since we had accepted the responsibility of taking care of Oliver in a community where many people were raising dogs to fight. In fact we had several people offer to buy oliver from us... we politely declined!
Before he ever saw his first tennis ball Oliver would chase coconuts on the beach and bring them back to you for another throw, funniest thing was that the coconuts were bigger than his head!
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