Elaine

G with DadG with MomThank you to all of your wonderful staff for doing what you do.  On
behalf of our family, we have made a $50 donation to you via PAYPAL,
as a thank you for sending us our wonderful four legged friend almost
three years ago.

Elaine, a golden retriever adopted in August 2009, entered our lives
with your help and now we could not imagine our family otherwise.  She
has outgrown many of her fears, and has learned to love the cold
Canadian winters very much.  She is in good health, and thriving,
enjoying her walks and has even picked up a few tricks.

Thanks for everything.  We love our dog.

The Young-Monette family

Max, Samson, and Sunshine

041Attached is a pic of our babies, three of which we were lucky enough to get from GARD!!!!!

Left to right
Max, Samson, Charlie, Sunshine (Charlie is the only one who is not from GARD)

They are all AWESOME!!!!!!

Ringo

ringoHello from Ringo at his new home with Linda & lane Thames

Miss Priss (Josie)

 

We rescued Miss Priss (Josie) from a kill shelter when she was extremely pregnant. She looked like she had given up. We took her to the vet immediately and he did an emergency C-section because of complications not allowing her to give birth naturally. She was a great mama and all puppies were adopted, as well as Miss Priss, now known as Josie!

 

josieondeckJosie is settling in wonderfully! She had a nice bath with girly blueberry vanilla dog shampoo as soon as she got home and looks very stylish in the pink collar with brown polka dots with matching leash. And my Mom was suckered by her cute little face into buying her a very snazzy heart-shaped ID tag with little pink rhinestones on it. We are still working on housetraining, so she has to go in her crate at night and while we are gone but she does very well in there. Last night she was dropping some hints that she would like to go in the big dog bed (literally a toddler bed) with the other two, but I prefer not to step in pee puddles first thing in the morning… 🙂 She is finally relaxed enough to go off the porch without being dragged and loves running around with our other GA girl, Sophie. We brought Josie to the local dog park both days this weekend and she did very well though still a little nervous about playing with the other dogs. She has been great with all people, I only noticed that when the guy working on our fence was petting her she trembled like a leaf all over. He smells strongly of cigarette smoke which none of my friends or family do, maybe she was abused by a smoker? I have already talked to our dog trainer and she will go to obedience classes in late August; I think she will do very well as we are already making good progress with sit and down. Once Josie is better on leash hopefully she will be able to go jogging with us – she’s certainly a little rocketdog in the yard!

These aren’t the best pics attached – one is from my phone – but the good ones are on my computer at home! Thank you so much for taking care of her and her puppies until we found her. She’s so wonderful, we’re just so happy to have her as a part of our family.

-Cordelia

Fiona

fionaHi Joy!

I’ve now had Fiona for over a year now; I just love her to pieces, doesn’t she look great???

Fondly, Kimberly Parker

Sugar

sugar1Hello, Joy,
As you can see, Sugar is going to have to go on a diet soon. She has gained a lot of weight since I got her in November.
Do you know if she was groomed previously? I’m not sure if her fur needs trimmed or not.
She is the most wonderful dog!
Jean