North Star Golden Retrievers

Attached are a couple of photos of Kandi.  She is about ten months old now and loves the snow.

Susan,
We are enjoying our newest family member immensely.  He is learning every day, and managed the road trip home very well.  He’s just what we hoped for.
I’m the guy who was with Lorissa when she picked him up last week.  It was certainly a pleasure meeting you.  I’ll be sending more pics if that’s okay with you.

Susan-
 
Attached are Timber’s latest pictures- hope you enjoy them…

Susan,

Hello, I hope this finds you well!  I wanted to send you a few pics of our growing little guy.  He is such a joy, I can’t remember what it was like before him anymore!

Susan,

Luke is doing great! He weighed 21.7 pounds last Monday at the Vet’s…probably 25 by now. The Doc said that he was perfect in every way…couldn’t get over his beautiful coloring. We have been taking him to work with us every day (Golf Club) and people are very impressed with how calm he is. He has only had two accidents in a month, so the house training you started with him really took nicely, and has been a breeze for us.  

Here are a few pictures of the growing boy.

Susan,

Just an update on our two sweet Golden Retrievers.  Dan and I ended up with two of your beautiful dogs.  Harleys and Shadows litter, May 2008.We started with one and two days later had to go back for the second. The first one we got is Shadows Sweet Little Charmer Maddox (Maddie).He is the protector, watchdog over everyone and everything.  He is so lovable but fights and plays so hard.  Maddie is a sleep on my foot as I am e-mail you.He is built like his Momma, petite and lean. And then we picked up Harleys Big Boy Ted D. Bear (Teddie).  He his beautiful and looks just like Harley.  Teddie is very calm and easy. A Teddy Bear he is!  He loves balls, we often times will find him a sleep with a ball or two in his mouth.  Teddie will have one ball in his mouth and be playing soccer with a second ball.He will bat the ball around for hours with his big paws. The two play so hard together and enjoy each other.  

 We are so very happy with the beautiful dogs.  They make coming home so much fun.   We have included some pictures and will keep you posted on our sweet boys.  The dogs by the water dish was the first day they were back together. The other pictures were not staged.  We just found them together on the couch a sleep a few days before Christmas. Teddie is on the right Maddie on the left.

We hope you are doing well we would love to stop by some day and see the progress you have made on your home and kennels.  Thank you again for such wonderful dogs.

Hi Susan: 

We had an uneventful trip home with Navy.   He just acted as if he thought, ”It’s about time you came to get me.  What took you so long?”  He strode into the house as if he had lived there all his life, and now the whole place is his own “kingdom.”  He is never very far from somebody in the family.  He is very happy and so-o-o-o loveable.  We weighed him yesterday, and he weighs 15 pounds.  We didn’t weigh him when him first arrived.  We got him  the same food that you recommended.

It took us a long time and much observation, discussion, and thought, but we finally decided to name him “Bandit.”  Unofficially, it usually comes out “Bandi” for short and affection.

We took the two attached photos of him today for your album.   

Hi Susan,
I am so glad I found you…  It was so nice to talk to you, too.  It is nice to know someone I trust “has me covered.”  Watch these little ones closely, as I know you are, and see what sweet little baby will fit into my household as well as with Jake.  I look forward to holding that sweet, fat, little baby boy and hearing the puppy grunts… as well as that sweet smell only a puppy has.
 
Thank you for being you.
 
Lorissa and Jake

Hi Susan,
 
 Just a quick update on the puppy.  We named him Solomon.  Our Springer is named Samson, so it seemed to fit.  He is also beautiful enough for name of a King.  He is a love, and such a good boy.  Both dogs are enjoying each other immensely.  We already have him enrolled in puppy training class.  Some pictures are attached. 
Merry Christmas,
 Shannon

Hello Susan,

I am Andrew’s mother and he is here visiting with his pup for the week.  I just want to say that this is the sweetest and most precious pup.  He is just the best boy and has already brought so much joy to this house in the two days he’s been here.  It’s going to be hard letting him go back home with Andrew.

Andrew has said nothing but good things about you and I just want to let you know my son is very lucky to have found this pup (Rocky is the name now) and he is getting nothing but HUGE amounts of love and attention.

Hope you had a good holiday and thank you so much!

Christine
P.S. Oh Yes, by all means, please post my testimonial.  I was looking at your site with Andy and it said that Rocky had one little girl left.  I was very close to purchasing my own pup.   Andy will be here in the U.S. for maybe 6 mos or so, when he is on deployment we get to babysit the pup, how exciting for us!!  I never thought this little guy would touch me as he did. 
 
I’ve enclosed a picture that I took of him on Saturday.  I am a photographer and we had our first of many puppy portrait sessions, what a blast!
 
Have a Wonderful New Year and it was great hearing from you!
 
Christine

Hey Susan,

Good to hear from you, my email was down for a couple of weeks. Well after two and a half weeks I finally decided on a name……Abby.

Our ride home was uneventful, she rode on a pillow on the middle of the console in the Jeep. She is quite the intelligent girl. She does “bring” her baby to me on command and she is comletely fearless ! She does not particulary like the day kennel but she now recognizes the work morning routine and reluctantly but dutifully goes in with a little proding. There were two days last week when I was out in the field and did not come home for lunch, she was very upset with me those two days. Both evenings she was especially bite-e and growl-e towards me.

She got her second round of shots a couple of weeks ago, and will get the third on spet 5th. As you suggested, the vet cautioned against exposure to adult dogs and suggested walking her where there is not any poop from other dogs. He said at 16 weeks she should be fine, but to still be cautious.

We went on our first “big girl” walk in the Henry Mountains yesterday (about a mile) Abby was tireless. She comes to my pillow in the morning and plops her head next to mine to wake me up so she can go “tinkle/poop” and EAT .

I will keep you posted Susan. Thank you so much for bringing this little girl into my life.

Regards,

Hi Susan,

I can’t beleive our puppy Josie is already a year old. I have meant to send you an e-mail and pictures so many times. My son and I bought the first of the puppies.

We had a little party for Josie on Tuesday to celebrate her birthday. I must admit that this was the first doggie party we have had, and we have had several dogs. Josie is one-of-a-kind. I know it sounds corny, but from the minute we brought her home, she had a special place in our hearts. She is the most loving, tender dog I know. We have a 5-year old golden retriever/border collie mix and they are the best of friends.

Here are a couple of pictures from the past year. I hope all is well with you, your family and your dogs.

Sincerely,

Hi Susan,

Ziggy is getting really big. He has so much character. He still thinks he is a lap dog, he can never get close enough. He love to give hugs to everyone. He is also very spoiled (we may have spoiled him too much though). Him and the kids just play all day long We still have trouble with the getting into the garbage and chewing on the kids toys but he is getting better. He still has the little blanket that you sent home with him. He loves it and carries it really gently in his mouth he treats it like a child and their blankie. Its the only thing he hasn’t chewed up. It is the cutest thing, we call it his blankie. Ever since we have brought the baby home everytime she cries he comes running to the rescue. We love him so much and he is very healthy. Here are pics.