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Meet Jeb Burton’s Black Lab Teal BY JARED TURNER
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self-described dog lover for
most of his life, NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Jeb Burton is now the owner of a 50-pound black Labrador retriever named Teal who will soon be 2 years old. Burton and his wife, Brandi, bought the canine in their hometown of Halifax, Virginia, with the intention of training her to help them hunt duck. “She’s wide open, that’s for sure,” Jeb Burton said. “She still needs some more work to be a really, really good duck dog. But I think she’s going to be all right. She’s really just a pet right now.”
Teal – named after the teal duck species – is the third Lab that Burton remembers being in his family. “I had a black Lab when I was 8 years old, and I got a yellow Lab when I was about 14,” said Burton, the 29-year-old son of retired NASCAR Cup Series driver and 2002 Daytona 500 winner Ward Burton. “I’ve had a Lab in my life ever since I was young.” Although still young in dog years, Teal is fully developed. It’s just going to take some more time to get her fully prepared for duck hunting, and Burton is perfectly fine with that. “She needs to calm down a little bit, and she’ll be what she needs to be,” he said. “She’s just a puppy, so she’s all underfoot.”
