Bye to Mabel

River here. Sad news to report - our sister Mabel died earlier in July. Mabel is the pretty girl on the left in the photo. She is now with their brother Max, chasing birds all over the place. She and Moe used to howl together every day at the 5:00 pm siren. If you can't tell, this picture was taken at 5:00 pm! Mabel had a good day, and even took a little walk, but we know she was getting weak and she passed in her sleep the next day. Aunt Susan was really really great taking care of her, because Mommy and Daddy were out of town when it happened.
The REALLY sad thing is how much her brother Moe (in the middle) misses her! Me and Jasper spend LOTS of time outside these days keeping Moe company, because if we don't, he barks and barks. Who can blame him? He and Mabel were together for 13 years, and Max was with them most of that time, too. Bye Mabes! Hope you catch some birds!

what River did today

HI Everyone! Jasper here! Taking a break from my mud puddles to show you what River did to himself today. Mommy was HORRIFIED when she saw this and I don't blame her. I might be goofy and have a few annoying habits, but I would NOT chew my own hair off! I have too many FUN things to do!
So, now Riv has the big plastic collar on which I barked at for two hours til I realized it was River inside there. And he is mad at Mommy for making him wear it and putting stuff on his leg. I hope he gets better SOON because right now he won't even chase me or play tug toy or let me jump on him or anything! Get well soon River!

We had to stay inside for THIS????

Hi Everyone! River here!
We missed writing in our blog, but it's just been busy around this place. We had so much rain this spring that Jasper has SEVERAL new mud holes to bark at and dig in. Mommy says she doesn't care, because a few holes in the yard and having to throw sticks in the pond to clean him off is a small price to pay for keeping HIM busy.
So, today, we really really really wanted to go outside and play but Mommy kept us locked in the house! She wasn't trying to be mean but there was a BIG old TURTLE in our yard and then she reminded me about the LAST time I tried to get the turtle out of the yard, how the end of my nose came up missing. Oh yeah, I did forget about that. It is mostly grown back now. So, anyways, here is the turtle. And of course the turtle took her sweet old time getting out of our yard, but finally she was gone and we spent the WHOLE DAY outside!

Grin Dogs!

Hey! River here! Wondering if me and Jasper were ever as little as the 8 puppies that GRIN (Golden Retrievers in Need) Rescue has available for adoption. www.grinrescue.org You can watch the puppies on YouTube by clicking here and scrolling down: http://grinrescue.org/featured-golden-top-menu/824-iris.html


AND if puppies aren't your thing (we hear they are lots of work, not easy like when me and Jasper got adopted! Oh wait, what was that Daddy? We were a full time job?) you can see lots of other Goldens that need homes, too! Like Wilson! We hope Wilson comes to play with us pretty soon! Here's Wilson:

Mudlucious Plans for Spring

Hi Everyone! Jasper Here! We had company today - 4 Dogs! Mommy says she did what ANY good hostess would do when 4 dogs come to visit - she let EVERYONE go down to the pond to run around and go swimming and get extremely muddy before they had to get in their car to go home. Sorry about your car, Laura!
Anyways, it was MY FIRST TIME down to the pond since the ice melted and OF COURSE I went swimming. Then the BEST thing happened. I found a good place to dig! And BARK. And Dig. And Bark. And Dig. And Bark. Springtime is SO MUCH FUN!
and e.e. cummings never even met me OR my mudholes before he wrote that poem!

"It's a wild, wild life"

Jasper and River here. We are too young to know who Talking Heads are but sometimes Mommy sings parts of Talking Heads songs...like it's a wild wild life...and makes up new verses. And she thinks WE are crazy!
Anyways, lots of wild life around here this weekend! First of all the red fox has been out a LOT - here we are, looking out the window to see if she is still there! When we see the fox we bark and make lots of other noises and run from the door to the windows and back at very high speed. It's fun, even if we DON'T get to go outside and chase.
THEN, there was this big big dog - the biggest dog we ever saw! Maybe a Great Pyrenees? We don't know exactly why they call them Great. We should be Great Goldens! Anyways, we were outside and she walked ACROSS the pond toward us and we barked like crazy but she did not care. Then WE busted through the dog fence to the pond side and then Mommy came out to try to retrieve us because it was going to be bad enough to have a strange and very big dog break through the ice but imagine all three of us ! So we came inside and Mommy stayed out to try to catch her but finally the dog's family came. Turns out SHE busted through HER electric fence chasing deer and then she got lost! EVERYONE was happy that she found her family.
THEN, this morning when we went for our walk look what we saw! Fresh bear tracks, right in our yard! We did not see the bear but we could smell it in the woods...all 6 of us stopped (Mabel, Moe, Us and Mommy and Daddy) and sniffed...well us dogs did...and sniffed... and we are pretty sure the bear was back in the woods a little ways. It's been another fun weekend !

We Got a Package!

Hey, Look what we got! A PACKAGE!

Jasper here. Our foster brother Luke sent us a package! Tennis balls and cookies with frosting and lollipups! Luke is the best. He was the resident dog at our foster home in Ohio and we miss him. He tried to teach me some doggie manners but I was young and wild then and even now I think manners are overrated. But other than that he was a great big brother and he is still nice to us! Sometimes he comes here to camp Run-a-Lot to play! His dog mom and dad are the BEST EVER. They foster other dogs for GRIN and even adopt some of them! Plus they do other stuff like organize things for the GRIN dogs. We miss them lots and hope they come and visit us soon. You should check out GRIN cause they have 9 brand new puppies plus lot of other golden-ish dogs to adopt and if you want to have fun like we do, you might need to adopt a dog. Just make sure they have tennis balls to chew on and lots of dog treats! www.grinrescue.org