i heart golden retrievers
I love tying a bandana around the pups’ neck when throwing a parties or celebrating a holiday. They are an inexpensive and fun way to “accessorize” your Golden, and ours love to wear them! They look and feel so dapper 🙂 It’s also fun putting them on for sporting events. Roxy and Quincey always have red and blue bandanas on hand (to root for our Arizona Wildcats and Penn State Nittany Lions of course!) .
Brad made it very clear to the pups that they are not allowed up on the bed. However, I’m a little bit more lenient.. and Roxy knows it! Every time Brad’s not around, she hops up into bed with me – it’s pretty darn cute. It has become our little morning ritual: alarm goes off, Brad gets in the shower, and as soon as he turns the corner she hops up on my lap. In the winter it’s SO hard to get up when there’s a warm pup snuggled up against me.
Nobody loves a car ride more than Quincey and Roxy! Every time they hear my keys jingle their tails go a-waggin. It’s hard to resist not bringing them along with me when I need to make a quick errand – so they’ve become quite popular with some of my company’s customers, our local distributor, and the drive through pharmacist. Roxy likes to stick her head out the window, so it’s fun to look in my side mirrors when driving and see a puppy dog smiling from ear to ear. It makes all of the dog hair in my Honda worth it 🙂 Unfortunately it’s getting reeeeeaaaaally hot outside so their car rides have been more limited – but it’s always a pleasure to have two beautiful Goldens in my back seat!
Our pups are angels.. most of the time. Like any dog they have had their slip ups – but today was probably the worst. I came home to a torn up sofa with stuffing all over the living room. This was the first time they have ever touched the furniture. Yes, they have chewed up newspaper and magazines before (photo below), but never this extreme! I’m not sure why now all of a sudden it started, but I think it may have to do with me traveling and being gone so much lately. Plus they have been getting their walks in the evenings instead of the morning because it is too darn hot outside – so their schedule has been thrown off quite a bit. Nonetheless, they (or I should say Roxy since I’m 110% sure she’s the guilty one) were very bad dogs today.
I went to Michaels and bought needles and thread and sewed the hole in our couch back together. It’s not perfect, but it will have to do for a while. Sorry I don’t have any pictures of our poor couch – I’m trying to erase any evidence that it ever happened so I’ll forget about it!
Now, what to do with Roxy?? Brad and I both agreed that it is time she goes back into her kennel when we are not home. Perhaps we gave her freedom of the house just a little bit too early. Wishful thinking on our part..
What is the worst thing your dog has ever chewed up? My friend Matt Goodman has a hilarious site Things My Dog Ate. The site is so popular that they created a television show about it!
Every time I leave the house, I get “the look” from the dogs – that puppy dog look where they bat their big brown eyes at me begging me not leave. It breaks my heart! Lately I have had to travel quite a bit for work so I’ve gotten “that look” quite a bit. It’s gotten to a point where Roxy even gets depressed when she sees me get the red suitcase out, she knows I’m going to leave. Tonight I’m in Denver, and I miss my husband and pups so much! Brad always sends me cute photos to make me smile. Here’s a photo he sent tonight.
Happy Father’s Day to the special Doggy-Daddy in our lives – my husband Brad! The dogs picked him out a special card, and Roxy even delivered it herself!
We also want to send a special Happy Father’s Day wish to the pups’ Grandfathers Jeff & Steve.
Baby Roxy meets her cousin Baby Madison
Just like a child, pool safety with a puppy is a must! We have a pool fence, but Roxy was so tiny as a pup she could crawl through the fence spokes. We absolutely needed to make sure she knew how to swim, and where the steps were so she could get out if she ever fell in the pool. Roxy was a natural at swimming, but it took several trials until she fully understood where the pool exit was. Here’s a really cute video of her learning how to swim when she was just a tiny pup – I wish she was still this little!!
As the two pups started to get used to one another, they really started to love one another. Cuddling together, cleaning each other’s ears, even kissing one another – I have never seen a pair of dogs more cute together! I think in addition to my general obsession with Goldens, what really inspired me to start this blog is the popularity of a facebook photo album I have been adding to over time with photos of the dogs. Here are some of my favorite photos of the two of them when Roxy was just a pup.
Quincey made us fall in love with the Golden Retriever breed. Everything from their demeanor, obedience, and that floppy tongue smile – it’s no wonder why they are such a popular dog! After having Quincey for about 6 months, Brad and I already wanted another one to join the family! We both agreed that it was the perfect time in our lives to get a puppy.
Shopping for puppies is quite possibly the best thing ever. It’s hard though at the same time, you want to take them all home with you!! We searched through azcentral’s website for local breeders that were selling puppies. Our first stop just didn’t feel right. Don’t get me wrong, the puppies were adorable – but we just didn’t have “that feeling”. Our second stop I had called before, and the women I spoke to was really sweet, and asked me several questions to make sure we were the right fit for her puppies as well. She even had one in mind that she thought would be perfect for our personality. We drove at least an hour to far east Queen Creek and arrived to a home with 6 adorable puppies in a baby play pen. A couple were barking, a couple were jumping up trying to get out, but there was one sweet gentle puppy sitting and looking up at me with big brown eyes. It was love at first sight! Coincidentally, it was the same puppy the breeder was going to suggest for us. It was meant to be 🙂
We bought her on the spot, and made the long drive back. I was jealous because I had to drive and Brad got to hold her. Here is her first photo from that car ride, sitting on Brad’s lap.
We named her Roxy – Quincey got a new sister and friend for life!
