North Star Golden Retrievers

Susan:

Attached are some photos of our puppy. We named her Kandi because of her butterscotch color. She is a real sweetie and she has made our home feel complete again. She is a very energetic puppy that herds the cats and mauls everyone and everything in sight. It will be good to get her through the teething stage!

Thank you for our baby girl. We will send more pictures as she grows.

Update: She weighs about 65 lb. now and is full of puppy energy. She likes to go for walks, play fetch, go camping and herd the cats. And she gets very excited about going for a ride. She also likes to dig in the yard, pull up sod and chew sticks.

She is intellegent and knows sit, stay, fetch, drop, no and down already. She is learning hand signals for sit and directional gestures. I am going to have her out after birds this fall to see how she does.

We are happy with her and she has filled a big empty spot in our hearts.

Have a good evening,

Hi Susan (and family!)

I want to thank you for everything you did to make Christmas special for Klay. He is so excited for the day we get to pick up the puppies. We are trying to get ready and we were wondering what kind of food you are feeding them and we also wondered if it isn’t too much bother, if you could e-mail us some current pictures. We are just wondering how big they are by now.

Thanks again for everything, we are looking so forward to January 25th.

Hey Susan,

Sorry me nor Alex have emailed you! We decided to name him Jerico (dont remember if we told you that when we picked him up or not). He’s about as big as Alexs collie now! He loves playing with her! They actually will play tug-of-war together with a rope! Its so adorable. I try to get good pictures of them playing but they move around a lot Lol. We take him essentially everywhere. He’s been on hikes, camping, shooting, just driving around, he loves going for rides in the truck. He’s got his own bed in the backseat Lol! He also had a blast watching fireworks with us over the 4th of July. One day we took him to the pet store with us and he actually picked out a stuffed animal duck that sqeaks right off the hanger! He never lets it out of his sight! I hope you can pull up the pics I sent you because then you can see that he even sleeps with his duck too! He still carries around his blue blanket that you sent home with him. It makes me sad because he will sit with it and whine a bit. He misses his mommy. He’s so funny when he tries to growl and bark too! The first time he growled he got this confused look on his face like, ‘Did that come out of me?’. He an explorer. His coat is darkening quite a bit too so now he goes from a soft light yellow on his belly and legs up to a pretty honey color on his shoulders and back. His fur is getting long too! The little kids love to play with him! Whenever they are here they play fetch, tug-of war and tag. Thank You so so much Susan! We all love him to death and couldn’t ask for a better member of our family!

Susan,

Maggie is doing good. I’ve been trying to find her some pheasants but so far no luck. She is about to graduate her first training class next tuesday and she retrieves the paper from our paperbox every morning.

So far the only 2 casualties have been 2 young maples in our back yard both 1/2 stripped of bark for 3 feet up the trunk… were trying to save them but we’ll see. That has been really the only thing she has damaged since we got her.

She is quite a princess in this household.

All is well and we’ll send you some more toward xmas.