North Star Golden Retrievers

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.

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.