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Even though Liam was younger, he spent lots of time with me to help me learn to not nibble with my puppy teeth and how to do tricks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65d4d728fe879226761da57d/3e151971-ab4f-44f8-8449-e7b1d26c08f7/IMG_20191213_194426.jpg Blog - Q & A with Pippin - Q. Did you live with any of your siblings? A. I have an adopted sister named Merry. She is a mixed-breed lab too. Her mom was a yellow lab so we look very different from each other. Merry lived with us for her first 7 years but she now lives with Summer’s godchildren right down the street. 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