For this installment of “New Canine-ites”—our feature profiling New Canaan dogs—we meet Everett Zack, a 3.5-year-old black Labrador retriever whose owners describe him as “loveable and loving.”
Everett Zack of New Canaan.
“He loves everybody,” Edward Zack said as he and wife Ann walked down Elm Street with Everett on Friday afternoon. “He loves kids. He loves burglars. He would let anybody in. He loves swimming, he leaps off the dock [at Rye Yacht Club]. He’s a great swimmer.”
Edward and Ann Zack with Everett, their 3.5-year-old black Labrador retriever.
He’s also a powerful tail-wagger.
Asked about the tape at the end of Everett’s tail, Edward said: “He’s so happy when he’s in the house, he whacks it against the wall and it starts bleeding, so we put tape at the end of it.”
The phenomenon is called “Happy Tail Syndrome” (seriously).
Everett eats Iambs that the Zacks often get from Choice Pet
During our interview, some New Canaan kids came by and politely asked for permission to pet Everett.
Edward said the family likes big dogs that a person can horse around with, and they’ve always had black Labs and golden retrievers, breeds they also like for their temperaments.
“They’re not little dogs. You can go out running with them and it’s just a nice sized dog, too, not something fragile,” Edward said.
In New Canaan, Everett goes to Waveny and also walks around the downtown.
He also is a frequent visitor to Rye, NY, where he walks the city’s streets and heads to the American Yacht Club there.
“He has two residences, really: Rye and New Canaan,” Edward said.
I photographed a dog today at Greenwich Animal Control with a case of happy tail. It happens a lot to hopeful dogs in municipal shelters. In bad cases they dock the tail.