Hi Barb, I was looking at your website and I realized I haven’t sent you pictures of Dakota (Captain & Ivy April ’08) in awhile. She turned 2 yrs. old this past April! Its amazing how fast time flies by. It just seems like yesterday I brought home this tiny little puppy that I could pick up without any effort! I remember looking at all the other adult dogs on your website and thinking it was so far away that my little puppy would grow up into an adult.

I get such wonderful compliments on her color and her looks; whether it be at the groomer, going for walks, from the vet, or from friends and family. Everyone says how well behaved she is. It just makes me feel like such a proud owner when I hear things like that, and it reminds me how she got such a great start when she was a puppy from you and your family. I can’t stress enough what wonderful things your family does for these puppies and I know how much work you put into them.

As you can see in her picture she LOVES to play with other dogs. We had a doggie play date the other day. All 3 of them have their tongues hanging out from a long day of playing! You have no idea how hard it was to get all 3 of them to sit and look at the camera! In the other picture you can see she likes to help herself to our bonfire wood – even if it is a log! And the last one was from this past winter during our Christmas day blizzard. Thank you for everything you and your family does! You do an amazing job!
Erin

Hey Barb!
Our whole family is loving having two dogs! They are getting along great and love to wrestle and play tug-a-war. Scout is from Ivy/Banner ’03 and Bailey is from Emmy/Captain ’10. Both dogs go to all of our sports events with our family. They are always swamped by kids and parents the second we get there, wanting to pet them. Everyone loves them! We have made sure that Scout has been getting as much attention as Bailey. Both dogs are so much alike. They both love people, toys, food and the dishwasher. Thanks so much for giving us so much happiness and two gorgeous dogs.
-Meghan (13)

Hi Barb, Russ, & family! Today we celebrated Moose’s third birthday. He is a very happy and healthy three year old puppy. We just wanted to send you an updated photo of him from today and let you know we couldn’t be happier with him. We hope everything is going well with your family and the extended Rolling Oaks family and want to wish the rest of the Zena/Captain litter from May ’07 a happy birthday!

Sincerely,

Mike, Erin, & Moose

Isaac, our grandson, loves to lay by the babies when they are so little. He is mesmerized by their little tails!

Delilah had her puppies! One female, six males!! This litter will be ready
for their new homes June 18. We have a male puppy available, if this is
good timing for you, please fill out a puppy application and I will call you
for a phone interview. Our next litter will be born around July and ready
in September, between Jasmine/Captain.

Hi Barb -

Just wanted to share an update with you. Sabin (Ruby x Captain Sept. 09) is doing great. He has such a wonderful personality – calm, confident and spunky all at the same time. He will be starting puppy obedience next week – I’m sure he’ll do great. Even though the rest of us haven’t enjoyed the snow I think he is secretly sad that it’s almost all gone – he loved to play in it. I’ve attached a few of my favorite puppy pics – he’s almost as big as my other adult golden so he doesn’t look much like a puppy anymore. Thanks again, I think you have a fantastic breeding program and I couldn’t have asked for a better experience or puppy.

~ Janessa

Hi Barb and Family,

I wanted to send you some pictures of Toby (Captain+Maddie, Feb 2008). He just turned 2 years old and we are so happy he is a part of our life. He is extremely well behaved and we get compliments all the time on how beautiful he is (that’s probably not news to you). Smile emoticon He got his Canine Good Citizen at only 10 months old! We just recently moved and two of our neighbors have Goldens from you as well. One of them, Mozart, is a half brother and they love to play together. We visit the dog park a couple times a week. Between that and our long walks/runs, he is usually pretty tuckered out…at least for a Golden. We’re looking forward to camping with him this summer and trips up to the north shore. Also, Lori and I got married this past summer. I included a picture of the proposal. Naturally, Toby was off exploring something more important.

Hope everyone is well. Take care.

Eric & Lori

Barb:

Wanted to give you an update on Stella (Captain/Maddie – Nov 2009).

She is weighing in at a little over 27 lbs of pure joy! In February was had our parvo shot only and in the next week will have the last of the puppy shots. Her eye is 100% recovered from the vaccine reaction. At a year the plan is to give her a proactive serious of eye drops and then the distemper and hepatitis.

To say that she loves water is an understatement. Water in any form – snow, standing, shower, frozen she adores and continues to want more.

Stella & Greta both just graduated from Puppy Kindergarten and are heading into the Total Puppy class next week. Stella is exactly what I wanted. She is calm but playful, listens most of the time and wants to be around people and other puppies constantly. Everyone we meet comments on how 1st beautiful she is but than how surprised they are at how well behaved and calm she is. She is +99% housetrained, comes when called about 90% time and outside of encouraging her to take a nap she is truly exceeding my expecations.

Puppyhood is awesome but also looking forward to see what she looks like as the months progress!

It might be premature, but what are your thoughts adding another dog to the family? Not thinking today but is there an ideal separation of age that does make sense? She has so much fun playing with other dogs that it started me thinking about what it would be like with one around more often. Of course the only other dog would be another Rolling Oaks Golden – I am now officially addicted to the breed and your puppies.

Here are some recent photos – I think she looks like her dad!

Paige

Hi Barb,

Our family was the lucky recipient of a puppy from Captain and Emmy’s June 2009 litter. Sierra has been such a wonderful addition to our family and is such a great dog! We love every day with her and couldn’t have asked for a better puppy. We are sending you a few photos of Sierra playing at the dog park on February 28th.

She goes on two walks a day and is always eager to go to the dog park about 3-4 times/week. At the dog park she is the “welcoming committee” as she runs around to say hello to all of the humans first and afterwards she goes and plays with the dogs. In addition, when she was in training classes this Fall, she passed the obedience test to become an AKC “Star Puppy”. We were so proud with how well she did in her obedience classes!

Just want to thank you for all the love you put into your puppies. We are complimented everywhere on what a beautiful and well-mannered dog she is. Kari & Patrick