Millions of Americans are celebrating the new holiday on the first Monday of September known as Labrador Day. This new holiday honors the Labrador Retriever, the most loyal of human companions. Businesses across the country are giving their employees and clients free dog cookies and sample size bags of dog food. Some employers have worked with local rescue facilities to even offer their employees discounts on the purchase of a rescue dog of their choice, including non Labrador breeds.
The replacement of Labor Day with Labrador Day has raised a few heckles from dog hating legacy organizations known as Labor Unions. But faced with being associated with those who eat dog meat and animal abusers, criticism of the Labrador Holiday has been muted. Indeed, the Labrador Day holiday has been one of the most popular acts by congress in the past twenty years, especially as it made it possible for the first time to take a tax deduction for pet ownership.
Labrador Day has saved businesses millions in overtime and paid compensation costs by eliminating the paid holiday. Many employees came out ahead too as legacy employers like the federal government not only give their employees free dog treats, they got a new floating holiday that they could take off any day they wanted to take off.
Businesses also celebrated Labrador Day by highlighting their products available for sale to the dog owner, often offering special discounts to customers during the Labrador Day Weekend. Communities throughout the nation celebrate and honored dog owners with great parades of people walking their dogs while children on the sidewalk hand the passing dogs treats. Many pool complexes closing for the end of summer offer dogs a chance to swim.
Labrador Day Weekend throughout the nation is viewed as one of the greatest accomplishments of Congress, maybe the greatest in 50 years. Dogs are honored, children are having a tag wagging good time as the unofficial last weekend of summer comes to a close.
