Author: ggeist

This is going to be a blast!  Come down this weekend (Sept. 28-29, from noon to 5 p.m.) watch some of the most athletic canines around as they leap for height, distance, and retrieval speed into a gigantic pool that will be set up in...

Come on down for a day full of dog-friendly activities at the Lukcy Lab's 25th annual Dogtoberfest – Portland’s pet-friendliest party and biggest dog wash! Enjoy music, food, beer--including our just released Fuzzy Muzzle Hazy Pale--and pet-loving vendors, while your rover receives a wash. Check out THIS...

It's our 24th Anniversary and that means it is time to wash some dogs and raise money for the Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital. This year’s Dogtoberfest is on Saturday, September 29th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. — so bring your pooch down to get...

Join us Tuesday, September 11 at 5 p.m. for our annual Hop Harvest Picking.  We've been doing this since 2005 when it was just a few of us out on the back patio picking away.  Now days, we harvest enough hops to make two batches...

It's our 23rd Annual Anniversary, and that means it is time to wash some dogs and raise money for the Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital. This year’s Dogtoberfest is on Saturday, September 16th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. — so bring your pooch down to...

A little over a week ago we lost a friend. All of us at the Lucky Lab were absolutely stunned by his passing. Ben Flerchinger worked for the Lab for 13 years and was a kind, funny, dedicated, and easy-going guy. We already miss him...

Dear Public, We named the Lucky Lab because we imagined the Labrador would be a great symbol of what we were trying to achieve, serving our patrons in a friendly, unpretentious, and accepting atmosphere. The recent episode of a group of hate mongering people trying to...

Further back than we can remember (eleven years we thinks), we have been picking hops out on the back patio of the Hawthorne Brew Pub for a fresh hop beer called The Mutt.  This year the hop crop has been a little late, but we...

Yep, we made it!  That's 140 dog years.  It all started back in 1994 in a former roofing company warehouse.  After five months of grueling remodeling we open the original Lucky Labrador on Southeast Hawthorne and what was to become, as some say, an icon of Portland.