The puppies have a busy week! Tuesday we visited Pro Works, a facility that employs adults with special needs. Wednesday they all got a checkup from the vet, and then visited Bethany Nursing Home.

It is a busy week with the kids going back to school, and Maddie’s litter being 6 weeks old. Every day this week we will take the puppies somewhere to get acclimated to new environments while still in the comfort of their litter mates. This is their first swimming experience with their mother.

Maddie gave birth to 10 puppies on July 25. 8 males, 2 females! We have been on vacation and just got home, and having trouble with our email account. If you have tried to contact me, I am sorry I have not gotten back to you. My email account should be up and running again the first part of the week. Maddie and her puppies are doing well. We were expecting Jasmine to have a litter, but she did not get pregnant. We have a male puppy available in Maddie’s litter. At this time we have an 8 month old male dog that is also available. Please fill out a puppy application if you are interested.  We will post a few photos later this week.

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

Maddie’s puppies are doing well and growing! All the puppies in this litter
are spoken for. We are expecting litters in February which will be ready
for their new homes in April!