Our November winner was Capt Jack. Jim was a family man who loved his goldens. In Jim's honor the mod team has chosen this theme Goldens and their Family. As always you must have 25 posts to be eligible to win but please share your photos even if you only have 1 post, we love to see them all!
Entries will be accepted until Tuesday, December 20th, one entry per membership.
In March of 2015, after Ruby's devastating diagnosis, we spent 24 hours doing all the things she enjoyed most. This photo was taken on her last day, during our last walk together, on the off-leash trails she loved so much. It was a beautiful sunny day, and Ruby was able to run and jump with the joy of being alive. Towards the end of the walk she was tired, and we sat in the snow together, under a tree, to say goodbye. My 13-year-old daughter took this photo on my DSLR with a long telephoto lens.
It's my last-ever photo of Ruby. An hour later, we sent her gently on her way and my heart broke into a million pieces.
Ceegee - what a wonderful photo, deeply moving...
While I'm guessing that the idea is Goldens with their human family, here is puppy Tally with her mom Sofie - so Golden family.
Ceegee, I am writing this with tears streaming. An amazing photo. The love you shared with your Ruby burns eternally bright in that moment in time and always.
Tears in my eyes too; that's a beautiful picture and tribute to Ruby!
I'm not sure which of these two I'd like to enter, so for now, I'm just posting at random.
First up, in a similar somber vein as ceegee's post, here's my last photo of me and Fenris together. We didn't know he was going to die, but I set my camera up and used the self-timer to get this photo. It's at the dog park he loved so well.
The second comes with a quiz that people who have had a golden puppy around will get 100% right. Is the puppy:
a) Helpfully delivering the child's birthday card, like any good retriever should.
Duke is the glue that has helped "blend" my blended family. He has become central to our family and helped us find a way to bond together; not just as step-parent and step-kid. This was 4 years ago when he was a puppy
Penny and her "sister", Ginger, who passed away a year ago. Penny always had to keep sneaking up on her, since Ginger moved away whenever Penny laid down next to her. Here's the end result of Penny's determination.
This somewhat shows the middle of the start of why I'm into dogs and love this breed. Every day my oldest sister would come home from work and sit down on the floor to play with the dogs and gossip with us younger girls... if we weren't going to dog classes (might add, oldest sister DRAGGED me to dog training classes with her).
There are so many wonderful photos this month. Thank you all! This is not an entry but rather something to give you a laugh. A few weeks ago DH was at a local pet store and discovered what he believed to be the perfect present for Bailey...a stuffed tree full of stuffed squeaky squirrels. Bailey has a love/hate relationship with the squirrels which frequent our back yard. HE wants to play and CANNOT understand why the squirrels run away so the "squirrel tree" was a perfect toy for Bailey. Except that there are a lot of squirrels in that darn tree and Bailey hauls it everywhere with him. I am forever picking up stuffed squeaky squirrels which fall out of the tree holes all over the house. This morning I found one in the shower and another under DH's pillow. Here's Bailey with his "best friends" who happen to live in the squirrel tree.
I'm going with an oldie but goodie. This was 27 years ago with our family's first golden "Bones". I was pregnant with my 3rd son (in the picture) Steven when we got her and they were inseparable. Here Steven is taking a nap with/on Bones
My grandson, Xander, the strongest little survivor I have ever known. Arrived into this world way too early, spent his first four months in hospital, enduring multiple surgeries, and finally well enough to go home. This picture is monumental, he developed a fear of dogs at age 4 but Miss Kaya wormed her way into his heart and her leash into his hand. He is now 8 years old, and this is their first walk.
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My grandson, Xander, the strongest little survivor I have ever known. Arrived into this world way too early, spent his first four months in hospital, enduring multiple surgeries, and finally well enough to go home. This picture is monumental, he developed a fear of dogs at age 4 but Miss Kaya wormed her way into his heart and her leash into his hand. He is now 8 years old, and this is their first walk.
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