Santa Paws made homemade dog Christmas cookies and sent a box for Andy and Katie. They LOVE them. Notice how quickly Katie comes when I call her ... since the cookies showed up LOL

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After 6 weeks of being cooped up with an infected wrist then GI trouble that caused Andy not to eat, he finally felt pretty good, so we headed to the lake for a short walkabout. The open space and fresh air lifted his spirits.

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We spotted this stray running the streets December 21st. He was little but bones and flea infested, matted fur. 3 weeks on, he's lookin' good and having a good time. We were never able to locate his owners. No chip, no tag, no ads looking for him, no responses to ours.

GRF member "Claire's Friend" sent Ollie a box of beautifully wrapped, thoughtful gifts Ollie opened last night and modeled today after getting home from the groomer. Now he's getting texts from all his new Hollywood BFF's LOL

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Claire's Friend, Susan Marie, is truely an angel as you well know. What wonderful gifts for two very endearing pups...they've both now been offically touched by an angel.

Pete

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Sonny, the black lab, ran ahead to make sure there were no gophers or jackrabbits in the way. If you don't give a dog a specific job, he'll improvise one for himself and it will invariably be fun. There's a lesson there.
John Gierach

You're cover shot on this video looks exactly like a spot on the lake I fish and some where I've got a shot of my bridge girl Sammie checking out the shore line just like Andy. It's almost a duplicate of your shot...

Andy looks like he really appreciated being there...lakes will do that for our goldens...this I know first hand.

I thoroughly enjoyed your video...thanks for sharing it with us all.

Pete

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Sonny, the black lab, ran ahead to make sure there were no gophers or jackrabbits in the way. If you don't give a dog a specific job, he'll improvise one for himself and it will invariably be fun. There's a lesson there.
John Gierach

The lake has a dam, and sometimes the level is high, sometimes lower like it is now.

It's a good swimmin' hole

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I couldn't agree more. A golden hearted person

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The lake I'm referring to is a reservoir as well and my dogs love it just as much as I do. At the moment it's frozen solid.

Pete

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Sonny, the black lab, ran ahead to make sure there were no gophers or jackrabbits in the way. If you don't give a dog a specific job, he'll improvise one for himself and it will invariably be fun. There's a lesson there.
John Gierach

Nice sunny day. Andy went to the lake and for a treat (Obligatory! LOL), and when I got home I took Ollie for his first trip to PetSmart for a nice long retractable leash and his first drive thru treat.

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Great stuff...love the music and your dogs do truely appear to be walking on sunshine.

Pete

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Sonny, the black lab, ran ahead to make sure there were no gophers or jackrabbits in the way. If you don't give a dog a specific job, he'll improvise one for himself and it will invariably be fun. There's a lesson there.
John Gierach